College libraries to open to public
University libraries should open their doors to the public and, in return, could be funded by cross-sectoral grants covering all libraries in their region. In response to a report published last year...
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Bush's Kyoto stance angers UK scientists
Leading British environmental scientists have called on governments to support the Kyoto agreement to tackle global climate change following its rejection by US president George Bush. In a THES poll...
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Dropout rates don't reflect quality of provision, report says
An obsession with retention and achievement rates may lead further education colleges to refuse to recruit students who are likely to drop out, according to a new report, writes Alison Utley....
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Union launches plot to usurp learning institute
The Association of University Teachers launched its plans for a rival to the Institute for Learning and Teaching this week. The AUT has already withdrawn support from the institute, which it said is...
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Applicants make light use of web
University applicants make little use of online information, according to a survey released this week by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Most applicants use traditional prospectuses...
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V-cs are reluctant to evict visitors
Vice-chancellors and principals are expected to duck reform of the visitor system in their consultation document on an ombudsman scheme to be published next week. Universities UK is examining...
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Fight over Scottish endowment goes on
Scotland's opposition parties have failed in their attempt to increase the £10,000 earnings threshold for graduate endowment contributions. But Labour's partners in the coalition government, the...
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Building courses threatened
Construction courses in further education colleges are suffering recruitment and retention problems and are "under threat of closure", inspectors have said. With a relatively buoyant construction...
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Far right gains a hold on campus
Student leaders are worried that the hard right is gaining ground in universities after evidence of British nationalist groups moving in on several campuses. Leeds, Leicester, Derby and Nottingham...
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Scots software to predict jobs future
Economists and software design experts at Strathclyde University have created a tool that can predict future skills demands in Scotland. The interactive Scottish Labour Market Intelligence model...
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Bio start-up is in the clear
Two complaints made against a biotechnology start-up company associated with the Australian National University have been rejected. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found no...
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EC bids to boost students' IT skills
The European Commission has launched an e-learning action plan to promote the use of information, telecommunication and internet technologies in education. It includes proposals on benchmarking,...
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Kangaroo courts elect candidates to the club
Quasi-judicial proceedings to select tenured professors in the United States are unfair, argues Joseph Fulda. Today in the United States, universities are not content to say, simply and truthfully,...
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Why I... believe we are not prepared for the old-age revolution
We are only just beginning to understand the science of human ageing. I have been in the field for 25 years, but I realised quite early on that the conventional view we have of the ageing process -...
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Hot heads still need cold facts
We need more basic research on climate change before we assign blame, Tony Brown writes. Since the late 1980s, climate change has been at the top of the environment-science agenda. The Rio summit set...