King Alfred's College rethinks university aim
The new principal of King Alfred's College in Winchester has dropped plans for the college to become a university by 2006. Paul Light believes the target date set by his predecessor, John Dickinson,...
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Old oaks point to root of global warming
Oak trees near the queen's estate at Sandringham will assist Swansea University's geography department in investigating global warming. The department has received Pounds 34,000 from the Leverhulme...
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Scottish cities engage in age-old quarrel
The traditional rivalry between Edinburgh and Glasgow has taken a sombre turn with Glasgow University researchers' discovery that Glaswegians have a lower life expectancy than inhabitants of the...
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V-cs seek to identify ethnic bars in NHS
Vice-chancellors have launched a research project to help diversify the ethnic make-up of National Health Service staff. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will commission research into...
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More turn to teaching, TTA head says
More people are changing career and turning to teaching, said Ralph Tabberer, head of the Teacher Training Agency. The first 500 graduate teacher programme places that became available at the start...
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Blunkett talks the talk on world English
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett this week used his Ashridge lecture to urge business leaders to make full use of the competitive advantage of the English language. English was &...
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Security fears cast doubt over lab plan
A pioneering neuroscience research centre at Cambridge University could be scuppered by fears of animal rights activism. Cambridgeshire Police and Girton College have raised serious objections...
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Students clock up Pounds 21m in unpaid fees
Universities were owed £21 million in unpaid tuition fees after the second year of student contributions, according to a survey by vice-chancellors. By July 2000, last year's students owed...
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Labour reveals 90,000 have benefited from New Deal
Almost 90,000 people have entered full-time education and training courses under the government's New Deal for the unemployed, according to latest figures, writes Phil Baty. Employment minister Tessa...
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Brown adds to inequality
Oxford admissions tutors fear that state school pupils may be deterred from applying to the university following chancellor Gordon Brown's remarks over the Laura Spence case, according to a new poll...
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Undergraduate applications to Oxford
Total undergraduate applications to Oxford are up 2.2 per cent on last year, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Applications to Cambridge are down by 7.4 per...
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The heat is on, warn climate experts
The UK can expect more floods but lower winter fuel bills as a result of global warming, according to an EU-funded report from the University of East Anglia. The report, edited by Martin Parry,...
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Caracas
University teaching and administrative staff are this week due to join a national teachers' strike in protest against salary scales and employment conditions recently approved by the national...
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Kazak students defy president At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order, triggered by...
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Swaziland's main underground opposition party has warned that this will be a month of mass action against the government of King Mswati III. Renewed unrest over lack of democracy stems from anger at...