CVCP issues guidelines on dealing with suicide
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has launched a study into the incidence of suicide and self-harm by students as part of an attempt to help universities care for students with mental-...
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Coshep makes hi-tech proposal
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has challenged the Scottish Parliament to adopt its radical six-point strategy to promote high-tech innovation. John Archer, principal of Heriot-...
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Sturdy foundations
Contrary to your lead article ("Industry wary of sub-degrees", THES, April 14), foundation degrees do respond to employers' needs. Britain suffers from a historic deficit of technical and...
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A doctor in the public house
Why do some graduates pull pints? Their degree choices may be to blame, Frances Cairncross says. In the past decade, Britain has seen an explosion in the proportion of youngsters entering higher...
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Alliance keeps firms up to speed
Four business schools in France, Montreal, Argentina and China have signed an agreement to establish a joint programme that will train students to thrive in the globalised economy. The schools are EM...
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Sponsors wash hands of site
Sponsorship from private corporations is supporting websites from which Danish students can download essays. The corporations support the sites through advertising, or provide services free of charge...
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Common web
The Commonwealth Institute has launched a virtual learning network and web portal designed to deepen relationships between the 54 member countries. Don McKinnon, Commonwealth general secretary, said...
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Market edge
Manchester Metropolitan University has launched a dot-com company to exploit knowledge in marketing education and training. The new company, multimediamarketing.com, was initially funded by a Pounds...
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Business top ten
Harvard tops the league of MBA excellence compiled by the American Universities Admission Program (AUAP), the organisation that helps foreign students to enter United States universities. The...
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Equal voice
Lena Huss of the centre for multi-ethnic research at Uppsala University, Sweden, has started a network for research on minority languages. The network's website lists 40 names of institutions and...
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Virgin terrain
The University of Glamorgan is teaming up with Richard Branson, Young Enterprise Wales and IT company Hewlett-Packard to develop an online enterprise college in Pontypridd. The college, to be...
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Skills school
Staffordshire University, in partnership with engineering firm JCB, is to open a pioneering centre that will give youngsters access to state-of-the-art learning technology. The university hopes that...
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Service update
Bath Information Data Services (Bids), the research service for higher and further education, has unveiled a new look with simplified navigation and extra supporting information for its 500,000...
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Sheffield shines
The University of Sheffield website has been awarded top position in the Yorkshire Website Awards. The website, which serves information to users from 105 countries, took honours in the non-profit...
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Technophobe
(Photograph) - Digital film-makers have the chance to replicate the success of The Blair Witch Project with skills learnt on a course to be launched next month by City University. Blair Witch owed...