Schools fear delay in results
Upper-sixth formers sitting AS levels could face delays in receiving offers of university places because of a shortage of people to mark their exam papers. One university's schools-liaison officer...
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Shortfall forces NUS to cut costs
The National Union of Students is facing a shortfall of £200,000 and has been forced to cut back its spending. A change in the union's tax status, prohibiting it from reclaiming VAT, will cost it £...
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Don's Diary
Week one Set off for "an idyllic retreat in rural Hampshire". Meet up with the other delegates on the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme. My group includes a Lloyds banker, a construction...
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Glittering prizes
The Queen will award Royal medals to the following people selected by the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Sir James Black , Nobel laureate and professor at King's College Hospital Medical School,...
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In the news: Kenneth Clarke
The prospect of former chancellor Kenneth Clarke becoming leader of the Tory Party has inspired both brickbats and bouquets. As education secretary from November 1990 to April 1992, he planned the...
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Maureen gets her gong
For a fleeting moment, it looked as though Professor Lapping had finally joined forces with Dr Quintock, the ever-absent Dr Piercemuller and Mr Odgers to nominate his long-suffering secretary for an...
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A sizzling cover-up
Evidence from the United States suggests we should be even more suspicious of management textbooks. Publishers across the Pond are promoting a book called Married Lust . "Drawing on the results of a...
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Boxing up innovation
One student obviously caught the mood last week when Northern Ireland's higher education minister, Sean Farren, opened the province's Centre for Entrepreneurship, a joint venture by the University of...
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How to get it rolling in
At the recent Association of Scottish Colleges' annual conference, entrepreneur Chris Gorman, who has sold two multimillion-pound businesses, urged the colleges to slash costs by buying online. One...
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Eyewitness
Some violations of academic freedom are clear-cut: a senior academic in Colombia is the victim of extra-judicial execution for his politics; an Egyptian social scientist jailed for critical research...
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Strains on a divided island
Changes now under way in Cypriot higher education could result in a binary system, argues Kate Hughes. The University of Cyprus is relatively small, and competition for places is fierce. Home supply...
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World watch
Baku Former Azerbaijani education minister Rafig Feyzullayev, jailed for 12 years in February for corruption and misappropriation of state funds, was found dead in his cell a day before his appeal...
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Right cools to left's reforms
The minister responsible for European Union policy in Italy's new conservative government has attacked the radical reforms of the university system initiated by its centre-left predecessors. The...
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Neo-Nazi influence alarms minister
Rightwing extremists are trying to gain influence in German universities by infiltrating traditional student fraternities, Bavarian interior minister Guenther Beckstein has warned. He said...
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Czechs weigh up loans option
University tuition fees and student loans could be introduced in the Czech Republic by next year if controversial plans to overhaul higher education funding get the go-ahead. Sociologist Petr Matejuk...