Swindon's wish comes true
Swindon is to have a campus offering degree and postgraduate programmes run by Bath University. It will be based in the town centre with a second site at Oakfield School, where teaching is due to...
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Two-year vocational degrees expected to win support from employers
Employers may back the introduction of two-year associate degrees amid claims that higher education churns out too many of the wrong sort of graduates. The national council of the National Training...
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Disabled people could be denied opportunities
Some disabled people could be denied opportunities available in other parts of the country under the Learning to Succeed proposals, says Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities, in...
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Starry-eyed
(Photograph) - Debbie Baines, a physics and astrophysics student at Leeds University, with one of two state-of-the-art computer-controlled telescopes named in honour of oil merchant Scriven Bolton, a...
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For the record
* A public policy centre for Wales opened last week at the University of Wales, Swansea. Under director Mike Sullivan, the centre brings together Swansea staff and healthcare managers from the...
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Dexter denies bias over X-ray site
Wellcome Trust director Michael Dexter has sought to assure employees at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire of the charity's impartiality over the location of the United Kingdom's new Pounds 200...
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Lib Dems call elite to account
The Liberal Democrats' new education spokesman, Phil Willis, has called on top universities to account for the hundreds of millions in taxpayers' cash they receive for research. Mr Willis issued his...
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Herts aims to fly high on airfield
The University of Hertfordshire is to relaunch itself as a singlecampus more selective university, combining a new building programme with higher student entrance requirements. Planning permission...
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New rules will scrap 'negative' awards
Tony Tysome and Alison Goddard on the QAA's qualifications blueprint A new definition of degrees and strict rules on how they are described are to be ushered in by the Quality Assurance Agency, which...
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Complaints code redrafted to command more public respect
Quality watchdogs have produced a new draft of their controversial and long-awaited proposals for a code of practice on complaints and appeals, writes Tony Tysome. The redrafting was ordered by...
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CVCP suffers teething troubles
The revamped vice-chancellors' representative body got off to a bumpy start with a disagreement between policy chiefs and Scottish university and college heads. Members of the Committee of Scottish...
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Listen to public, GM experts told
Social scientists this week called on scientists to be frank about the limits to their knowledge in order to overcome the public mistrust of genetically modified food. In a report recommending a...
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Drive to train women as surgeons
Female medical students are being targeted by the Royal College of Surgeons, which has pledged to double the number of women consultant surgeons in the next five years. The college looks after...
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Library data network offers industry big savings
A 30-year-old consortium specialising in buying and selling information offers the blueprint for a national network, according to a Southampton study. The consortium, called Hatrics, provides...
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Millennium makeover for v-cs
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is to shake off its 'inaccessible' image and reorganise along regional lines to meet institutions' new challenges. Tony Tysome reports Vice-...