Bath offers physicists teacher training
PHYSICS students at Bath University will be able to graduate with a BSc degree and a teacher training certificate following the launch of a new course. Most Bath physics courses take four years....
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Ceiling for estates funding bids on the cards
LIMITS on bids for money to improve estates are likely in future after the first year of the initiative was oversubscribed. The Higher Education Funding Council for England, which is providing Pounds...
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Heriot-Watt merger in Scottish borders
THE merger of Heriot-Watt University and the Scottish College of Textiles in the Scottish borders has been approved by Scottish secretary Donald Dewar. The university said it wants to develop an...
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Appeal Court upholds gender bias claim
THE University of Ulster is to pay Pounds 32,000 in damages to a woman it discriminated against, after the Court of Appeal rejected the university's attempt to get the compensation award reduced. At...
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Tribunal dismisses discrimination case
AN INDUSTRIAL Tribunal has ruled that Accrington and Rossendale College indirectly discriminated against women by using lecturing services agency ELS. But the claim against the college, by Debra...
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Lecturer faces jail term for fraud
A LECTURER convicted of defrauding Reading University out of Pounds 200,000 faces jail. Soraya Yuksel who also faked her qualifications was sacked from her Pounds 30,000 a year job last year after...
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Lecturers fall into benefit trap
CONTRACT staff are being caught in a benefits trap because of some universities' use of waiver clauses. Under these clauses, employees on fixed-term contracts waive their rights to claim unfair...
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Entry grades to be forced up
ADMISSIONS officers could be forced to raise university entry requirements in response to A-level grade inflation and persistent claims of dumbing down. The Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment...
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Means tests delay cash
UNIVERSITIES could be substantially out of pocket this autumn because of delays in means-testing students for tuition fees, writes Alan Thomson. Local authorities, which carry out initial means-...
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Study set to probe course choices
YOUNG people who will learn their A-level results next week are to take part in a major national study attempting to discover why school-leavers decide what higher education courses to study and...
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Fury over flunk figures
DROP-OUT rates for every institution in England and Wales will be published next year in a new effort to plot students' progress through university. Data on non-completion, compiled by the Higher...
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Howler competition
Running a competition for the best howler might seem somewhat superfluous in the year that brought us the Scottish anomaly. But in the absence of a nomination for H.M. Government and its advisers,...
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Ambassador 'called police to beat students'
STUDENTS from the West African Republic of Benin studying at the Hassan II Royal University in Rabat, capital of Morocco, were beaten by police after occupying their country's embassy, their leaders...
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Private offshoot for state university
AUSTRALIA's second oldest university, Melbourne, has broken new ground by establishing a private offshoot, which it hopes will generate enough income for it to join the world's top-rank institutions...
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Iraq fears for lost generation
UNIVERSITY lecturers are heavily represented among the two million professionals officially estimated to have left Iraq since the Gulf war and the imposition of United Nations sanctions. Unofficially...