Probe into business of qualification checks
The Data Protection Registrar's Office is intending to probe the relationship between the Higher Education Statistics Agency and Experian, which plans to run a commercial service to check whether job...
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Heavenly home
On telephoning the Lord Chancellor's Office to inquire as to the coming into operation of a recent Act of Parliament, I was told by a lady with a pleasant Irish brogue that it would happen at...
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Wellcome governor under investigation
The furore surrounding Roy Anderson, the suspended professor of zoology at Oxford University and a governor of the Wellcome Trust, has intensified as it emerged his business interests are under...
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Go-ahead for Scots football academy
Heriot-Watt University and Heart of Midlothian football club are to create a Pounds 5 million football academy. The Hearts board said this week that the academy would allow rising stars "to combine...
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US offers holiday jobs to UK students
All-time low levels of unemployment in the United States have forced nine major American summer employers to seek student recruits in the United Kingdom to fill more than 8,000 vacation jobs. The...
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Pounds 700,000 for research into chronic pain
Scottish higher education institutions are tackling the problem of chronic pain in two separate initiatives. Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh and Stirling and Glasgow Caledonian...
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Fees and loans are a disincentive to 'poor'
The prospect of loan and fee repayments will discourage students from disadvantaged backgrounds, despite the government's drive to improve access, researchers from the University of Lincolnshire and...
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Fast track to loans on internet by 2002
High-speed internet links between the Student Loans Company and education authorities will be in place by 2002, as part of a bid to reduce application processing time. The initiative is part of the...
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See me, Ah'm an inspiration!
Hard-drinking, string-vested, professionally challenged Glaswegian television hero Rab C. Nesbitt has proved an inspiration to competition entrants. Students and their tutors on a distance-learning...
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Youth unemployment high
The United Kingdom's relative lack of success in reducing youth unemployment was highlighted last week in a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The report says this...
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Staff 'not missing out'
As Natfhe will be aware, the claim that University of Westminster staff are "missing out" compared with other comparable institutions has no basis in reality (For the record, THES, February 11). Our...
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QAA benchmarking 'shambles'
The Quality Assurance Agency's policy development on benchmarking has become a shambles. Vice-chancellors, uneasy about campus autonomy in the light of the new blueprint, should be seizing the chance...
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Speaking of God...
It was gratifying to see a British university department (biblical studies at Sheffield) receiving justifiable praise ("Greatest story ever told", THES, February 11). Puzzling, though, was the...
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To join the ILT or not?
Tim Unwin and Richard Hodgkins say they care passionately about "the quality of their teaching" and that geography has an excellent record (Soapbox, THES, February 4). So, what is the problem? Why...
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To join the ILT or not?
Unwin and Hodgkins ridicule the "new orthodoxy of higher education" - meaning what? As far as I am concerned it means placing "learning, teaching and scholarship" at the heart of the university...