HE less reliant on public purse
Universities and colleges have become less reliant on the funding councils for money. Some 38 per cent of English institutions' income came from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in...
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Travails of the trailblazers
How does a once-pioneering university recover from a decade of lethargy? Harvey J. Kaye explains The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has resolved to find out whether a once-pioneering and dynamic...
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Moi orders probe into riots
NAIROBI Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi has stepped into the controversy surrounding frequent student riots, describing them as being part of a "culture of mindless disorder" and ordering a "...
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Youthful challenge to Yeltsin regime
MOSCOW The three young leaders of Russia's Union of Right Forces have a positively film-star sheen about them in a political field characterised by age and infirmity. Boris Nemtsov, former governor...
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Young Americans flock to Europe
PRAGUE American students, who once saw a year in Paris or Berlin as a chance to escape the straitjacket of their culture, are increasingly turning to study in Europe for sound economic reasons. The...
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Changing rooms
(Photograph) - Jamie Harris, a third-year fine art student, has just returned from a trip to the Falkland Islands where he has been involved in 'the ultimate makeover'. Students from Duncan of...
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Scandal not over yet as MPs call for audit overhaul
A powerful committee of MPs has called for a "fundamental overhaul" of auditing arrangements in further education, just weeks after ministers thought they had drawn a line under a catalogue of...
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UK tops research but must raise pay
Britain does some of the best engineering research in the world, despite comparatively poor pay for engineering academics and research workers, a top-level study has concluded. An international panel...
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Students challenge campus closure
A group of 14 mature students is mounting a legal challenge to the possible closure of the Ripon campus of Ripon and York College. They want to overturn the governors' decision to transfer 800...
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Hangover fears bug Newham
Pre-millennium tension has set in at Newham College, London, where staff have been told to take urgent action to avert the potentially catastrophic effects of a new strain of the millennium bug....
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Short-lived excitement
How exciting to be shortlisted to lead the government's new National College of School Leadership, training the next generation of school teachers, and how disconcerting when the post is readvertised...
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Don't mess with bull
The Quality Assurance Agency may not have realised the opposition it would meet when it proposed abolishing the distinctive MA title for Scottish undergraduate degrees. According to the papal bull...
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Divided nation
It is a country of two halves and new research proves it. Warwick professor Malcolm Tight has locationally matched 52 football clubs with universities, comparing football league positions at the end...
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Altogether now
First things first at the University of Michigan, which is to form part of the proposed new Scottish centre of engineering excellence at the redundant Rosyth naval base on the Firth of Forth....
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In the news
Terry Melia is a man on a mission to revitalise further education. Targeting sleaze and cronyism, the government-appointed further education troubleshooter has been the bane of under-achieving...