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British foreign secretary Robin Cook and Helen Liddell, minister responsible for the single market, are to intervene in an action pending at the European Court of Justice in support of more than 1,...
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Prague
Czech government and opposition leaders this week celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Velvet revolution, which ended 40 years of communist rule. The revolution was sparked by the police's brutal...
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Chiefs query Cubie maths
Scottish principals are lamenting the Cubie inquiry's headline-grabbing price tag of Pounds 12 million to axe higher education tuition fees north of the border. In its response to Cubie's second...
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Art students say no to modules
Fine-art students at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside are so angry at changes in their degree programme that they have founded their own school of art. With help from staff, more than 40...
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Oxford evicts fee protesters
Student unrest over tuition fees re-emerged this week as protesters were evicted from Oxford University's development office after a weekend occupation. The university won High Court permission on...
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Uni hires debt collecting firm
Middlesex University is employing a firm of debt collectors to chase unpaid tuition fees. University finance directors say the action is largely unheard of but could set a precedent. Fee-paying...
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Troubleshooter vexed
Funding chiefs have drafted veteran college troubleshooter Terry Melia to probe The THES's revelations that Melton Mowbray College recruited suspected illegal immigrants as students despite warnings...
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LJMU reviews its conferral of professorships
Liverpool John Moores University is reviewing its procedures for conferring professorships following an investigation into academic fraud by Whistleblowers. The discovery earlier this month that...
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Change freezes library research
University librarians fear that research in their field is under threat as a result of a big shake-up of official bodies charged with keeping an overview of the sector. The concerns stem from the...
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Silence is golden
(Photograph) - Silence is golden: a team of Quiet Patrollers in the University of Leicester's library is issuing persistent loudmouths with warnings to ensure silence for users. Sanctions against...
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NTOs seek apprentice route with respect
Industry training bodies want to recast work-based vocational qualifications as stepping stones to higher education. The national council of the National Training Organisations is to hold talks with...
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Students less likely to suffer poor teaching, Wicks warns
Intolerance of poor teaching will rise the more students have to pay for their education, lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks predicted this week. Speaking at the launch of a Pounds 12.5 million...
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Great idea, but what's in it for us?
The government says regional development agencies will be the engines of enterprise. However, as Tony Tysome explains, the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting Chancellor...
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Don's Diary
Monday A weekend in Potsdam at the Australien Zentrum. End with a mystical experience - climbing the ramp inside the transparent dome of Sir Norman Foster's reinvigorated Reichstag with the lights of...
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The short of it
The death of Grace Archer is nothing to this. Recent goings on in Ambridge have kept lecturers on tenterhooks. The radio soap has introduced a Canadian academic recently employed at the local...