Worry over costly councils
Further education leaders and politicians have warned that the proposed new Learning and Skills Councils regime may amount to a "reinvention" of expensive Training and Enterprise Councils. Plans for...
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Poor students to get big welcome
Golden hellos of up to Pounds 1,000 a year will be offered to young university hopefuls from poor backgrounds. Education secretary David Blunkett this week announced details of a Pounds 10 million...
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Anderson leaves Oxford to rejoin Imperial
Roy Anderson, the distinguished British epidemiologist, has resigned his chair at Oxford University after four months of rows and inquiries. The scientist is to return to Imperial College, London,...
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CBI wants gongs for trainees
Not enough bright people are joining modern apprenticeship programmes, resulting in high drop-out rates and low levels of attainment, said captains of industry this week, writes Tony Tysome. More...
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Contractors 'still undervalued'
The poor treatment meted out to contract research staff is damaging academia and the country as a whole, according to the second report of the research careers initiative (RCI), published this week....
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Survey finds low morale is endemic among medical researchers
Some of Britain's most important medical research projects are threatened by a staff careers crisis, the Association of University Teachers claimed at its summer council in Eastbourne this week. AUT...
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Cash boost to be dependent on equality
Higher education is set to gain millions of pounds more in the Treasury's comprehensive spending review settlement in July, but the money will be tightly linked to improving equal opportunities,...
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The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is being urged to take forward the battle against short-term contracts as part of an equal opportunities drive. The AUT Scotland has praised the Higher...
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Language students lack je ne sais quoi
Modern languages teaching methods in schools are leaving new undergraduates ill-prepared for degree-level study, a conference heard this week. University language departments are finding that too...
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UK to work on French project
The United Kingdom might collaborate in a third-generation synchrotron to be sited in France, alongside the French participating in the British-based Diamond project. French research minister Roger-...
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Market forces threaten Oxford's college system
Oxford University could become like any other civic university, distinguished only by its expensive listed buildings and with college wardens as "academic concierges", a new book argues. David...
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Dispute over pay looms at Derby
Derby University management and lecturers' union leaders were on a collision course this week as vice-chancellor Roger Waterhouse launched an attack on officials threatening industrial action. In an...
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MPs blame industry for failure
Teaching, page 37 Industry must take the blame for the UK's relatively poor record of innovation in engineering and physical sciences over many decades, the government believes. A recent House of...
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New campus brings hope to Isle of Thanet
Pounds 7.5m site aims to widen access in deprived area Sandwiched between two supermarkets a couple of miles outside the run-down Kent towns of Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate, the new campus of...
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Dundee set to benefit from NZ cash boost
A Dundee University researcher investigating the impact on health of the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons tests on Christmas Island has won a funding boost from the New Zealand government. The...