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Your starter for ten: what would be the ideal apr s-conference entertainment for an event chock-a-block with boffins? A university challenge, of course. Competition is bound to be intense at the...
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Liberation front
Alumnus to be proud of No 171 showed this week that the more assertively confident form displayed recently in his job possibly came from the sense of liberation attached to knowing you will shortly...
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Learn while you work
Leeds Metropolitan University is offering students the chance to gain qualifications from sub-degree up to doctorate level without ever attending a lecture, writing an essay or sitting an exam. In...
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BAe, academe fly into future
British Aerospace has committed itself to a Pounds 2 billion investment programme over the next decade to fund a "radically new approach" to education, technology, training and research. At the heart...
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Corporate 'ruin' threat
Business Schools face potential ruin as "corporate universities" poach academics on individual contracts and shun institutions, the Association of Business Schools has warned. Speaking to The THES...
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Parents alarmed at suicide risk
EXAM time is almost upon us, bringing with it the sleepless nights long associated with cramming. Yet academic pressure is only one of the difficulties students face at university and college....
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Stress on a scale of 1 to 10
STUDENTS from Leeds Metropolitan University seem a happy bunch but dig deeper and many feel stressed about the forthcoming examinations. Steve Hale rates his stress on a scale of one to ten as eight...
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Science waits on the cash
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country A year after taking office, Labour...
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Lowdown on a shy spin doctor who crossed the Irish Sea and chose to stay
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country BACK WHEN Ireland's economy was less...
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A year of chatter, but little money
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country TONY Blair famously placed education...
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DFEE's open and shut case
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country LABOUR'S slick presentational style...
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Blunkett reveals skills forged in Sheffield
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country When Labour took power last year...
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Welsh winners and losers
Four Welsh colleges of further education face cash cuts of more than 5 per cent in 1998-99. The Further Education Funding Council for Wales figures reveal that the biggest loser is the largest...
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MPs voice New Deal fraud fears
Fraudulent and incorrect payments to training providers could threaten the government's Pounds 3.5 billion New Deal for the young unemployed, MPs warned this week. In a tense session with the...
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Scots colleges need cash
An injection of extra government funds is urgently needed more by Scottish further education than higher education, the principal of Aberdeen University has warned. Duncan Rice, giving the keynote...