Skills get business blesing
* Employers rank skills as a vital element of competitiveness and are investing in staff training, according to a labour-market trends survey released this week by the Confederation of British...
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What is a Scottish-domiciled student?
If Scottish students no longer have to pay tuition fees, will a Highland holiday home win students from elsewhere in the UK a fee exemption? The answer appears to be no: everything points to...
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Colleges fear rush decision over Scottish fees
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood is free to determine its spending priorities within the Pounds 14 billion Scottish block of funds and has the power to abolish tuition fees. But there is...
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Should Scotland abolish fees?
"If fees are abolished in Scotland, it would turn a Scottish anomaly into a British absurdity." Andrew Pakes, president, National Union of Students "The whole reason our committee was appointed was...
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Lecturers seek firm salary structure
Further education lecturers have demanded a "substantial" pay increase and a firm national pay structure, writes Harriet Swain. Lecturers' union Natfhe, which met with employers yesterday, did not...
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Bosses condemn strike call
Employers have slammed strike action by lecturers in old universities as "inappropriate and untimely". Lecturers will walk out on May 25, heralding a summer of disruption to exams, admissions and...
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Pay delay as Bett committee holds on to report
The Bett committee on pay and conditions for university staff, which was supposed to report at the end of the month, is to hold another meeting, pushing back the expected publication date until June...
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Academe supplies nine MSPs
Nine out of the 129 MSPs are from further and higher education. Of the seven who won seats for Labour, six are women: Sarah Boyack, lecturer in town planning at Napier University; Rhona Brankin,...
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Revolution stirs in FE
College funding chiefs have sounded the death knell for further education as we know it with a call to scrap the Further Education Funding Council and to establish a single all-embracing lifelong...
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Welsh awarded an extra Pounds 30 million
Welsh further education has received a Pounds 30 million funding boost in the 1999-2000 provisional allocations announced by the Further Education Funding Council for Wales show. All but two colleges...
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Midland colleges shake-up
Midlands further education faces massive restructuring if the Further Education Funding Council confirms the closure of Bilston Community College, Wolverhampton, this week. The council also discussed...
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Whistleblowers
Middlesex University is attempting to influence a PhD student's research on whistleblowing because it may make the vice-chancellor "nervous", according to documents obtained by The THES. Kate...
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Whistleblowers
Leicester University has reached a settlement with award-winning historian Steve Paulsson following Whistleblowers' report of his dismissal last month. The university's climbdown came just hours...
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Heat is on for enterprise
A dozen university teams are still in the running to host the world-class centres of enterprise that the government has promised, writes Julia Hinde. Twenty-eight universities applied to the Science...
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Lucky 37 get cash injection from JIF
A vaccine research centre at Oxford University, a research ship that monitors the shallow ocean and a southern-hemisphere telescope aimed at deepest space have won funding in the first round of...