New unis take hi-tech lead
Former polytechnics are often outflanking their old university counterparts as a new subject-based "hidden binary structure" emerges, a British Council conference on employability will hear today....
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Medics now able to watch doctors in house
A new Pounds 1.4 million interactive television network linking Imperial College School of Medicine with 12 hospital sites around London is cutting the time student doctors spend travelling. The new...
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QAA seeks curb on degree powers
Quality chiefs have called for unprecedented powers to remove universities' rights to award degrees. The controversial proposal by the Quality Assurance Agency, which underpins its plans to establish...
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Welsh trio suffers from funding equality
Three Welsh higher education institutions have had to be protected from damaging funding cuts with special "safety net" grants, the Welsh Funding Council announced this week. The sector's 13 higher...
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Cambridge hit by cut to fee incomes
Cambridge University's colleges are bracing themselves for a blow to their historical autonomy as the university's central administration is expected to make them face the full burden of government...
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Food agency on its way
Public consultation on the draft food bill establishing Britain's first Food Standards Agency ends next week, writes Julia Hinde. If the bill gets the thumbs up, it could be introduced in late spring...
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Work experience gets a cash carrot
A pot of new cash to develop business and community links will reward institutions with good graduate employment records. The Higher Education Reach-Out to Business and Community Fund will eventually...
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Minister slates 'bad' science
Science by press release is not just bad science, it is irresponsible science, Lord Sainsbury told a Royal Society meeting this week. Speaking on science, technology and social responsibility, he...
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UK field trials of GM crops in offing
The first UK farm-scale trials of genetically modified crops may start next month, the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions is expected to announce shortly. The four-year trials are...
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Account system disaster bugs MP
The installation of a new computer accounting system at a research council was this week branded an "unadulterated mess" and "a grade-one disaster" by a House of Commons select committee. The public...
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Mappers in second bid
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire will seek planning permission next week to more than double in size with a view to commercialising research on mapping human and animal genes. It...
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UfI on course to hit participation target
The University for Industry is poised to realise the government's pledge to increase higher education participation to 50 per cent among 18 to 30-year-olds, its chief executive said this week....
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TECs may be axed
Training and enterprise councils, a legacy of Thatcherite Britain, could be abolished in their present form as part of a government overhaul of post-16 education and training. Senior TEC officials...
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Union backs THES
'There are fundamental questions of how the university's procedures allowed this to languish for so many years after it had first been identified' Complaints about flawed and "incorrect" teaching...
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A-level reforms to go baccalaureate route
Ministers were expected to pave the way to a new European baccalaureate-style advanced level qualifications system with the announcement today of reforms to broaden 16 to 19-year-old study. The...