Student Loans Company errors scrutinised
Registrars and student finance officers are compiling lists of problems that universities have experienced with the Student Loans Company. Difficulties identified so far include errors being...
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Blair education target comes under fire
Shadow education secretary Theresa May today attacked Tony Blair's 50 per cent higher education target. Ms May, who was due to speak at the North of England Education Conference, said that the target...
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Universities transfer courses to improve
* Dundee's two universities have signed a "strategic realignment" agreement to transfer courses between them, backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Five management and consumer...
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Inspectors find college 'overstated' strengths
Dunstable College has joined the growing ranks of failing colleges, with "less than satisfactory" inspection grades for management and quality control. The Bedfordshire college was also given the...
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Short degrees welcomed
University and college heads have welcomed news that the government is about to launch two-year "foundation degrees". Department for Education and Employment officials plan to publish a consultation...
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Researchers on hunt for myopic families
Cardiff University researchers are searching the United Kingdom for short-sighted families. They are looking for volunteers for a study that aims to identify genes that predispose children to develop...
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Graduate unemployment falls
Seven out of ten graduates found work immediately after completing their studies in 1998, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Graduate unemployment fell from 13 per cent in...
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A genome balloon for bursting
Before we succumb to yet more millennial angst, it is worth pausing to debunk the grandiose media claims concerning Craig Venter's paper in Science about creating life in a test tube (Soapbox, THES,...
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Tariff trouble
I was surprised that from a sample of three you could justify a report criticising the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service tariff ("Staff reject tariff reforms", THES, December 17)....
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Getting back to nature-nurture
Educating Eve
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Four Horsemen ride into sunrise
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come
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Kingdoms, principalities and city states:one history of the 15th century
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VII
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Soaring Deccan, circular Baghdad
The New Cambridge History of India, Part Seven - Islamic Art and Architecture
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Did he cry all the way from his bank?
John Soane, Architect - John Soane
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Herms, terms and arches
Essays in English Architectural History