Oxford eyes Pounds 15,000 fees
Oxford University's new business school has plans to launch a four- year undergraduate degree - charging students Pounds 12,000-Pounds 15,000 a year - despite the government's stipulation that...
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Poorly qualified teen force
Almost two-thirds of Welsh 16 and 17-year-olds in jobs have minimum level qualifications, according to the latest figures. The official Labour Force Survey shows that of the 34,000 16 and 17-year-...
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Earnings survey will target 3,000 students
University students will be asked how much they earn and spend as part of a new government survey. The Student Income and Expenditure Survey will target some 3,000 students, both full and part-time,...
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Pounds 10 million Oxford diabetes centre opens
A "unique alliance" between academics, the drugs industry and the National Health Service was forged this week with the opening of a Pounds 10 million centre for diabetes and related illnesses at...
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New Deal extends to college placements
Unemployed people hitherto excluded from the New Deal initiative will be encouraged to go to college in order to increase their chances of employment under an Pounds 80 million government scheme. The...
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Gene research given a Pounds 15 million boost
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is to spend up to Pounds 15 million to help British researchers identify the function of key genes. The initiative, Investigating Gene...
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Ex-Keele engineer to appear at crown court
Peter Rolfe, former head of Keele University's hospital-based bioengineering and medical physics departments, was this week bailed by Stoke-on-Trent magistrates court to appear at the town's crown...
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Hull prepares for 100 new medical students
Hull University this week unveiled its plans for a medical school for mature students which could be up and running by 2001. The plan, put forward as part of the government's call for universities to...
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Tuition fee protesters face being sent down
Eight of the 14 Oxford University students who were withholding tuition fees in protest at the end of free higher education backed down in time for this week's payment deadline. Six remaining...
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Strike leaders were unfairly dismissed
Two union leaders were unfairly dismissed by Southwark College, a London employment tribunal has ruled. Andrea Kenneally and David Jenkins, both Natfhe branch officers, were dismissed following a ten...
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Inspectors find college 'less than satisfactory'
Governance and quality assurance at East Yorkshire College of Further Education has been deemed "less than satisfactory" by inspectors. Governance was described as "weak", and the quality of...
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Details of first reliable CJD test revealed
Researchers have developed the first reliable test for new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) that can be used while the patient is still alive. Details are revealed in this week's Lancet. The...
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Disaffected dons join Tory party policy group
Academics opposed to the government's further and higher education policies are being recruited to a Conservative Party liaison group. Around 100 Conservative-supporting academics, including many...
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Hands on
(Photograph) - Hands on: education secretary David Blunkett opened a unique interactive science learning zone at Sheffield Hallam University this week. The Scope (Sciences Centred Opportunities for...
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New credit framework is Scotcat's whiskers
Scottish education minister Helen Liddell has hailed a pioneering new credit and qualifications framework as widening educational opportunities for all and offering access to better jobs. Speaking at...