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Findings from the Further Education Funding Council for England reveal that for 1996-97: * 85 per cent of students in further education stay on courses on which they enrol * 68 per cent of students...
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Scottish pupils passing highers at all-time high
The number of Scottish pupils passing highers is also at an all-time high. The 1998 results show a 0.5 per cent rise in passes and a 0.4 per cent rise in those gaining As.
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All Along the Ivory Tower
(Photograph) - All Along the Ivory Tower: Lee Marshall is running a course on Bob Dylan at Warwick University. The course can count towards a degree.Photograph: Gavin Fogg
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Hewlett Packard lab chief to run UK research
JOHN TAYLOR, director of the Hewlett Packard labs in Bristol, has been appointed director general of the research councils from next January, following the retirement of Sir John Cadogan. Peter...
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Animal testing: patients fight back
People who want to abolish all animal research are being invited by a patients' pressure group to pledge that they will live without treatments developed using the technique. The group, Seriously Ill...
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Nigerians head for ACU in Ottawa
NIGERIA's vice-chancellors have been invited to next week's Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Ottawa although their country is suspended from Commonwealth membership. The ACU is...
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MPs point to franchise lessons
LESSONS from an investigation into alleged misuse of public funds at Halton College, Widnes, must be "promulgated throughout the sector", the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee...
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Funder threat to college freedom
COLLEGE autonomy is under threat as the Further Education Funding Council said this week that it wants powers to intervene in the running of colleges. The FEFC has told the government that its powers...
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RDA chairmen lack education experience
ONLY three of the nine chairmen of the new regional development agencies have an education background. University of East Anglia vice-chancellor Vincent Watts, as designate chair of the Eastern RDA,...
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Matthew Boulton College
The FEFC's demands for more control come as the council faces criticism for its role in the financial crisis at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. The council this week declined to respond to...
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Deadline for student loan sale
COMPANIES have until August 24 to register for the second Pounds 1 billion sale of student loan debt. There has been considerable interest, says N. M. Rothschild & Sons, which is handling the...
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Students set for meningitis inoculation
CARDIFF University has recommended that up to 4,700 students including all first-years and any others living in halls of residence should be immunised against meningitis. The Bro Taf Health Authority...
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End Oxbridge MAs scam
Your front-page story ("Oxbridge MAs in danger", THES, August 7) started me thinking. Of course Ivor Crewe is right to say: "Nomenclature and abbreviations I must indicate one, and only one, level of...
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Appointments
University of Greenwich Mary Stiasney, deputy head of the school of education at Oxford Brookes University, has been appointed head of the school of education. UKCOSA Council for International...
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Awards
London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal: Robert Rankin, professor, University of Glasgow, for his contribution to the theory of numbers. Senior Berwick Prize: Brian Davies, professor, King's...