Reprieve for workers after union climbdown
The threatened sacking of nearly 600 part-time lecturers at Woolwich and Greenwich Community College has been averted following a pay and conditions deal between management and union leaders. College...
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St Andrews will fight student rape lawsuit
St Andrews University says it will defend itself "robustly" against a lawsuit by a former student who says she was raped in 1996 during an exchange trip to Odessa in the Ukraine. Erin McLean, who has...
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Oxbridge under fire for masters awards
Labour MPs have launched an attack over the way Oxford and Cambridge award masters degrees. In a Commons' motion, 20 Labour MPs said Oxford and Cambridge's system of automatically granting an MA to...
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Athlete goes to bed up a mountain
Sports scientists at Staffordshire University have recreated the French Alps in an athlete's bedroom in an attempt to boost Britain's medal chances in this year's Olympics. While Spencer Duval, 30, a...
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Teachers working all hours
University teachers work half as much unpaid overtime as their basic paid hours, according to figures published in the McCrone inquiry into Scottish teachers' conditions of service. A comparison of...
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Oxford pilots bias-free test
Oxford University is developing a test to identify students with life-long potential rather than the ability to pass exams. About 150 sixth-formers from state and independent schools took part in a...
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More courses
OnLine Education is to add 20 more degrees and professional courses to its portfolio in the next 18 months. All the courses will come from universities and colleges in the UK. The company has focused...
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The Scottish Further Education Funding Council
* The Scottish Further Education Funding Council is to set up its own complaints system for those dissatisfied with the results of internal college complaints procedures. It proposes an appeals panel...
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Top-up fees 'will put off the poor'
Top-up fees represent a risky investment that will deter students from poorer backgrounds, says a report from economists at the University of Warwick. The salaries of graduates from elite...
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Fees for slow learners
First degrees will remain free in German universities, the education ministers of the 16 federal states have agreed in an attempt to end the fierce dispute over student fees. But the states will be...
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Fitting reward
(Photograph) - Fitting reward: joiner Steven Garrett has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth Pounds 10,800 to learn the rare skill of ecclesiastical joinery on a course specially created for him...
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Holy confusion
A Sikh academic who failed to win a post at Ulster University has brought a racial discrimination case against the institution. But the industrial tribunal hearing has been delayed because officials...
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Perfect 24 for failed course
Quality chiefs have accepted that there is nothing wrong with a pioneering course at Derby University that they had criticised heavily just 18 months ago. The university's postgraduate distance-...
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BP chief is to chair the LSC
BP Amoco chief Bryan Sanderson has been named chairman of the new Learning and Skills Council, which will lead post-16 education and training from next April, writes Tony Tysome. Mr Sanderson will...
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Copy deal produces multiple savings
Higher education purchasing consortia are set to save Pounds 20 million through an innovative national photocopying contract, and if every university in the country signs up to the deal, the savings...