Privatisation: v-cs think the unthinkable
Voluntary privatisation of universities and deregulated tuition fees are among options for radical changes in higher education funding to be considered by vice-chancellors next week. A call for the...
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Unions welcome applications overhaul
Unions have given a cautious thumbs-up to proposals for a post-qualification university application system. The Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe are optimistic about...
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Opposition questions Whitehall appointment
The appointment of Geoff Mulgan, one of prime minister Tony Blair's top advisers, to a senior civil service post has reignited opposition concerns about the politicisation of Whitehall. Mr Mulgan, co...
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Writer in residence joins medical school
Carol Clewlow (below), bestselling author of A Woman's Guide to Adultery, has been appointed the first writer in residence at Newcastle University's medical school. Ms Clewlow will run creative...
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Bangor wins EU award to study marine life
Bangor University's school of ocean sciences has received E1.5 million (Pounds 920,000) from the European Union to undertake pan-European research in marine physics, geology, biology and chemistry....
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Scottish universities extend collaboration
Glasgow and Strathclyde universities are extending their collaboration with plans for a joint department in naval architecture and marine engineering. The department will combine the resources of...
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Government proposes social work degree
The government published A Quality Strategy for Social Care last week. It proposed a new body to issue guidance on social care practice, a new quality framework and a radical reform of training...
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Southampton opens Jewish studies centre
A research centre for the study of relations between Jews and non-Jews opens at the University of Southampton next month with a grant of Pounds 845,176 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. It...
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Bishkek
Staff and students at Kyrgyzstan's 39 higher and 52 further education establishments have "virtually unanimously" nominated president Askar Akayev as a candidate for the presidential elections in...
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Accountants battle to retain training duties
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales launched a new training qualification this week in a bid to prevent major UK companies moving their student training to its counterpart...
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Nuffield to host talks on patenting ethics
The ethical and legal issues raised by the patenting of gene sequences and proteins will be explored in a series of roundtable discussions staged by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The meetings...
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Scientist tracks crabs with fake limpets
Scientists have a new weapon in their efforts to study the struggle for survival on Britain's shoreline - a wax limpet. Richard Thompson, a marine ecologist at the University of Southampton, created...
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Graduates find jobs faster
Of 259,749 graduates in 1999 whose destination was known, 66 per cent went straight into work, compared with 63 per cent in 1998, according to data released this week by the Higher Education...
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Access spells a scramble for places
School-leavers will face tougher competition for university places as access to higher education is widened, a member of the Commons select committee on education warned this week. Gordon Marsden,...
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Masked avenger
(Photograph) - An Indonesian student protester looks up during a demonstration in Jakarta against former President Suharto, who is on trial for corruption. The ex dictator is charged with stealing $...