Setback for quality watchdog power bid
The government is set to reject key proposals for tough rules on degree-awarding powers drafted by quality watchdogs. Department for Education and Employment officials are expected to turn down the...
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Opening time
(Photograph) - Opening time: Open University tutor Julian Crew holds his monthly tutorials in the Noel Arms pub in Whitwell, Rutland. He is helping eight employees of Anglian Water through a tailored...
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Scots students press to restore grant
Scottish students are calling for the abolition of tuition fees and the restoration of means-tested maintenance grants in the anticipated shake-up of student support north of the border. Today is the...
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Boy racer
(Photograph) - Boy racer: Niki Smart, 26, with the '1 Up' three-wheeled racing car he created for his masters in vehicle design at the Royal College of Art. The concept car has already won him the...
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Bias bars budding lawyers from practice
Some aspiring lawyers are spending thousands of pounds on university degrees and further training with little hope of making it in the profession, a report published next week is expected to show....
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Anti-fraud code agreed
Biomedical journal editors have agreed a code of practice to help combat scientific fraud. The voluntary code, put forward by the Committee on Publication Ethics on Wednesday, offers a uniform...
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Welsh unis face merger plan
The Welsh Assembly could soon be examining plans to slash the number of universities in the principality from 13 to just three or four, the sectors' leaders believe. The Higher Education Funding...
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Email libel ends in apology
A former senior university manager has won an apology from Exeter University in an out-of-court libel settlement. John Hankinson, former director of Exeter's foreign-language centre, claimed he was...
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DIY lectures a success
A psychology lecturer conducting a six-year-long experiment into the use of undergraduates as lecturers has concluded that this novel approach to teaching is extremely effective. While admitting that...
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Brussels moots plans for a European Community-wide patent
Brussels is proposing to introduce a single European patent. Cash-strapped university technology-transfer offices believe this could save them money and allow more of their research to be patented....
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Dons warn over expansion
Continued expansion of higher education is misguided, two of the government's most prominent education advisers have warned. John Field and Tom Schuller, members of the advisory group that has helped...
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MPs denounce 'poor' college audits
Financial audits at one in five colleges are so poor they "cannot be relied upon", the House of Commons' Committee of Public Accounts has warned, writes Phil Baty. In its long-awaited report on the...
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Tardy marking delays graduation day
A postgraduate student is seeking compensation from Nottingham University after its school of education took four-and-a-half months to mark one assignment, causing him to miss his graduation date by...
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A prescription for a capital's health?
As London's medical sector continues to consolidate its resources, Steve Farrar considers the future of the capital's remaining independent institutions and asks whether bigger really is better When...
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French university enrolments
Paris French university enrolments continued to fall in 1998-99 for the third year running, though there were more first-year students after a high baccalaureat success in 1998. There were 1,424,395...