Sainsbury moves to revamp engineering
Science minister Lord Sainsbury is to meet representatives of engineering departments, business and industry next week to discuss revamping the engineering profession and Engineering Council. The...
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Shortage of English teachers predicted
A shortage of secondary English teachers could be on the horizon, a senior educationist has warned. Barbara MacGilchrist, dean of initial teacher education at the Institute of Education, has had...
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Scots demand to know impact of fund plans
Universities Scotland is demanding that the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council disclose its calculations on the effect of its proposals on funding for teaching, amid fears that some...
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Management research fails to attract funding
Management research proposals are largely failing to attract research council grants, Gordon Marshall, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, has told a meeting of management...
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Hard sell via student cell brings in the cells
The National Blood Service has found a way to get blood out of a phone. A trial at five universities found that sending text messages to students increased donor levels by 32 per cent. The NBS...
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Correction
The emoluments of David Llwyd Morgan, vice-chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, included the university's contribution to his pension. The figure was supplied by the Higher Education...
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Women sold short in media
As the BBC moves to put more female journalists in front of the cameras in its election coverage, Stirling University experts have warned that women are rarely news subjects. David Miller of Stirling...
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NUS: laptop plan looks like elitism
A proposal by Warwick University to require students to buy laptop computers has been attacked as "top-up fees by the back door" by the National Union of Students. Warwick's e-strategy plans to make...
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Hike cash to attract poor, say MPs
Significant changes in higher education funding, the applications process, course structures and student-loan repayments are among the recommendations in the select committee's access report. Yet,...
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Ministers airbrush report
Cabinet ministers used their political muscle to soften a potentially damaging select committee report on university access, it was claimed this week. Members of the education sub-committee claim...
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Bosses join union in plea for cash
Further education college chiefs joined union leaders this week in calling for more government cash for pay rises for lecturers. But lecturers' union Natfhe said the bid from principals for an extra...
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Lockerbie expert questions judges' guilty verdict
The legal expert who founded Glasgow University's unique Lockerbie trial briefing unit has expressed concern over the judges' guilty verdict against one of the Libyan accused. John Grant, formerly a...
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Blunkett hits back at v-c's assault
Education secretary David Blunkett has launched a bitter attack on Sheffield Hallam University vice-chancellor Diana Green for her criticisms of the government's higher education funding record. He...
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Institutions lose net access
Buckingham University wants compensation from the UK Education and Research Networking Association after it spent a week without email or web services when a cable was cut on the national...
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Ambitious plan to launch Humble telescope
Physics undergraduates at the University of Kent at Canterbury are spearheading an effort to get the Humble Space Telescope into orbit. The idea, first hatched six years ago, is to give pupils at UK...