Scots minister rejects beneficial college merger
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has rejected a further education college merger proposal which he concedes would have educational and financial benefits. Last summer, Mr Wilson urged...
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Nottingham Trent eyes associate
Nottingham Trent University and Brackenhurst College in Southwell are considering merger. The college, which has nearly 800 full and part-time students, is one of the university's eight associate...
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Thames Valley pro vice-chancellor quits
The pro vice-chancellor who made the controversial decision to lower the pass mark at Thames Valley University last autumn has resigned. Susanne Haselgrove is to become a visiting fellow at Cambridge...
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Union bosses lobby for Unesco job standards
Union leaders have urged the government to back international standards adopted by Unesco that are designed to protect the terms and conditions of employment for academics. The Association of...
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Vets fight five years of fees
LONDON University veterinary students are fighting government plans to charge tuition fees for all five years of their degree. James Clappison, Conservative MP for Hertsmere, has taken up the...
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Grant erosion sparks anger
THE government faces accusations of misleading new students into assuming there would be a more gradual shift in balance between grants and loans than has emerged. Government leaflets have said that...
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Business attacks tax plan
GOVERNMENT plans to recover student loans through the tax system will cost employers millions of pounds and will stop many firms recruiting graduates, tax experts and small businesses have warned....
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MPs to hold City summit on loans
A WORKING party of MPs is to hold talks with City finance companies in a bid to break the impasse over attempts to privatise student loans. The move, by the Education and Employment Committee, marks...
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Student support alarm
LOCAL authority chiefs have warned the government that its new student support system could founder if details are not ready within a month. They say some of the smaller authorities will not be able...
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The power and the possible sorry story
Alan Thomson explains the powers given to the education secretary under the Teaching and Higher Education Bill as it stands and gives examples of what this could mean AN unamended Teaching and Higher...
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Slowly North
The perambulatory pace at which Sir Peter North, principal of Jesus College, Oxford, has conducted his review of Oxford University should come as little surprise. Among his achievements in law, the...
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Bad food and books
A report on students on the Scottish Wider Access Programme, an alternative route to higher education for adults without traditional qualifications, includes first-hand accounts of students'...
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Green, or just dirty?
"Socks would be sniffed, underpants would be turned inside out to get another few days out of them," is one student's response to a survey by Proctor and Gamble of student washing habits. The survey...
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A Deal on the quiet
Andrew Smith, the employment minister, has finally granted his first interview to The THES, after numerous requests that he answer colleges' fears about their role in the New Deal programme (page 8...
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RGO a-go-go
Resolution of the saga of the Royal Greenwich Observatory could be just around the corner. All the signs point to the RGO's name returning to the meridian in time for the millennium. Last year, the...