How to play fair in fieldwork
Universities must adapt to give disabled students the chance to study in the field. Pat Leon reports. Mike Adams is a frustrated geographer. He loved the subject at school, especially abseiling down...
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Elite throws open its doors
France's national assembly has adopted a bill that will open entry exams for grandes écoles to students from contracted lycées in underprivileged areas. Originally, the bill was aimed only at...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Tony Blair stumbled headlong into a dispute over support for education when he staged a photo opportunity at New College, Swindon, where days before, lecturers took strike action...
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Law lessons that hit the rights note
Paul Rigg meets a Spanish lawyer who uses old ballads to bring family law to life. Rosa Peñasco is a Spanish lawyer who sings ballads to her students to teach them the law. She has discovered that...
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Welsh go for single identity
Welsh higher education heads are to consider a "one nation, one university" scheme to unify institutions under the University of Wales banner. The move, which could involve Welsh further education...
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Road to nowhere
In a reversal of fortune, the research assessment exercise appears to have become so popular that a road has been named after it. The highway in question is a short, dead-end street in Bradford,...
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Latest UK news
Clinton opens Oxford institute Former US President Bill Clinton was at Oxford University this afternoon to open its new institute for the study of American culture and politics. Following the...
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Hostages to fortune
Labour Party launches ten education manifesto pledges, May 23 "...Ten, we will enable half of young people under the age of 30 to progress to higher education by 2010, while improving...
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Farewell to welfare
New Labour embraces an economic model that promotes inequality, says Donald Hagger. The social contract and the Labour Party are dead. Tony Blair has completed Margaret Thatcher's destruction of the...
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Financing is the crucial issue
WHAT THE THINK TANKS ARE THINKING Institute for Public Policy Research The introduction of tuition fees and abolition of grants was a bold political act and long overdue. But the process of reform...
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Top-ups back to spook Labour
The most influential new Labour think-tank has backed university top-up fees, signalling possible change in future government higher education funding policy. The Institute for Public Policy Research...
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'Free tuition for all named Grant'
THES reporters scrutinise the minority party manifestos Socialist Alliance "Students and staff have suffered under the Tories and Labour, which imposed tuition fees and ended free higher education."...
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The smallest of swings might turn the tables
Most marginal Scottish seats are a battle between Labour and the Scottish National Party Aberdeen South is one of only a handful where Labour will be fighting against the Liberal Democrats, its...
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Apathetic learners won't rock the boat
Voters have returned a Conservative member of parliament for Guildford since 1832, but could students hold the key to a possible swing to the Liberal Democrats on June 7? Conservative Nick St Aubyn...
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College cutbacks concern all
Colchester was created as a new constituency in 1997 and is the tightest three-way marginal in the country with just 2,000 votes separating the three parties. Liberal Democrat Bob Russell, a former...