Cubie rejects inequity and upfront fees
Cubie committee's Christmas present to Scottish students is a package of recommendations to abolish upfront contributions to tuition fees, target support to disadvantaged groups and harmonise further...
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Scots announce research awards
* Research investment worth more than Pounds 4 million could aid the Scottish economy. The successful bids for the awards were announced by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. SHEFC was...
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For the record
The National Assembly for Wales is to investigate establishing a second medical school campus for Wales. It is bidding for 100 of the government's 1,000 new medical student places. It recognises that...
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For the record
Glasgow and Strathclyde universities are joining forces to create a pioneering centre for clean, reliable and affordable energy. Strathclyde is combining its expertise in power economics, renewable...
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For the record
English student unions outside the National Union of Students could get cheap beer if Northern Services, the buying consortium for similar Scottish student unions, sets up a separate organisation...
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For the record
The Association of University Teachers is to set up an inquiry commission into its handling of this year's pay dispute following members' protests. It is seeking nominations for the six-member...
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For the record
Martin Nthakomwa, a postgraduate management student at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, is to run a barefoot ultramarathon between Glasgow and Perth, via Edinburgh, to pay for a new...
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For the record
Particle physicists are to fire neutrino beams from Cern, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, 730 km through the Alps to Gran Sasso in Italy. The experiment, which won funding of...
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Thoughts of an HE new year
What are your hopes and fears for higher education over the next millennium? The THES asked... THE BISHOP The year 2000 will be a critical decade in higher education. After such enormous changes in...
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For the record
Former student Russel Ogden, who abandoned his postgraduate studies on Aids suicides and euthanasia at Exeter University amid a row over research ethics, is thinking of suing for damages. He is...
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For the record
More influence for football supporters over the control of their clubs is the subject of a conference to be held at Birkbeck College on January . The conference follows news that the Football Task...
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For the record
The THES wishes to clarify that contrary to the impression given by our article on the Middlesex University Business School (THES, December 17), we did not obtain any information from MUBS external...
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For the record
The average salary for a full-time lecturer working in a new university or adult education centre was Pounds 29,0 in March 1998, according to the Department for Education and Employment. Some 26,670...
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Hogmanay tactics
Universities have prepared for the millennium with military rigour. Olga Wojtas and Claire Sanders report. Richard Field's father organised emergency planning operations for civil defence during the...
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Glowing references
As it is the season of goodwill, Whistleblowers has become "Trumpetblowers" for one week only - providing a forum for universities to blow their own trumpets and to celebrate the positive side of...