Licence to teach proposal dropped
COMPULSORY licences for lecturers, enabling them to teach in higher education, have been dropped following fierce opposition from elite universities. The new Institute of Learning and Teaching...
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Blunkett puts Bolton's title bid on ice
Bolton Institute's bid for a university title has been put on ice by David Blunkett, secretary of state for education and employment. He has accepted that "evidence is not yet clear" that standards...
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V-cs back right to silence campus extremists
Universities have the power to ban groups or organisations that have in the past repeatedly or flagrantly violated rules protecting freedom of speech, says a report from the Committee of Vice-...
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Monsanto claims genetic hybrids necessary
Monsanto, the US-based biotechnology firm at the centre of the storm over genetically modified products, told the House of Lords committee looking into the regulation of genetic modification in...
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Kennedy call to siphon off university cash for FE
The Kennedy committee on widening participation in further education reconvened this week, a year after it reported, to warn the government that more work must be done. The group said it would not...
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Euro clash over Framework V budget
The European Parliament has expressed "serious reservations" over the budget for the Framework Vprogramme. Moves by the Council of Ministers to single out research policy and set spending...
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Silicon Fen faces Oxford challenge
Oxford University is challenging Cambridge's claim to be Britain's leading centre for high technology industry. A new report from Cambridge found that Oxfordshire's 730 high-tech companies employ 26,...
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Oxford's poor relations benefit from rich
Three Oxford colleges have received a total of Pounds 1,820,000 in extra money from the College Contributions Fund, which redistributes cash between the university's richer and poorer colleges....
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Physics job losses reflect subject crisis
Undergraduate physics was dealt another blow this week as Manchester Metropolitan University decided to scrap its degree course with the loss of 14 jobs. "The news came out of the blue," said John...
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Rival pay wish lists vie for Bett's attention
Submissions to the Independent Review Committee on pay and conditions for higher education staff, recommended by Dearing and chaired by Sir Michael Bett, were due in this week. The committee will...
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Legal bills called to account
IT IS unacceptable that universities spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money on legal fees to fight student and staff disputes without proper accountability, the Campaign for Academic...
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European Space Agency and the European Union collaboration
The European Space Agency and the European Union this week agreed a resolution on greater collaboration. They agreed to work more closely in telecommunications, navigation and Earth observation.
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Getting ahead
Bolton Institute was celebrating a campaign success this week - in headgear rather than university status. Having bombarded Department for Education and Employment ministers, officials and press...
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Pulp friction
The Age of Open Government no 1: Black Rod and the Clerk of the Parliaments have finally apologised to Lady Dainton, widow of Lord Fred, formerly vice-chancellor of Nottingham University and chair of...
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Hancock's half-support
The Age of Open Government No 2: Governors at Portsmouth University have been rather economical with the truth in responding to local MP Mike Hancock's call for a chancellor's court to investigate...