McAleese wins Irish presidential poll
MARY McAleese, pro vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has been elected as the new president of Ireland, a largely honorary but symbolic post. The 46-year-old law expert is the first...
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Colleges too broke to educate properly
THE TOTAL further education deficit has rocketed by nearly 2,000 per cent in just two years, funding chiefs have revealed. The crisis is so acute that it threatens the ability of the Further...
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Keele to probe standard of PhDs
KEELE University has launched an investigation into academic standards in its only 5-star rated department after a research student was accused of plagiarism. Leaked documents seen by The THES reveal...
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Rallying call
(Photograph) - Protests by students against tuition fees held in 14 British towns last weekend are only the start of a campaign to keep higher education free, their leaders have warned. The student...
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Religious bias fears fading
ONLY A small proportion of graduates from Northern Ireland believe they have suffered from religious or gender discrimination when applying for jobs. The finding is revealed in the latest research...
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Bright outlook
(Photograph) - Hillary Clinton, first lady of the United States, met Ulster University students after announcing a new bursary scheme for female research students as she gave the first Joyce McCartan...
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Learning and teaching institute takes shape
TALKS are taking place with the funding councils and other higher education "stakeholders" to raise an estimated Pounds 500,000 for the new Institute for Learning and Teaching. The Committee of Vice...
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Warning over rise of 'corporate degrees'
UNIVERSITIES risk being sidelined as big business shuns higher education in favour of in-house "corporate degrees", vice chancellors were warned this week. As companies find higher education does not...
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Stronger lobby for academic medicine
ACADEMIC medicine will soon have a single voice to represent its interests with the formation of an Academy of Medical Sciences. The new group, which should be operating by October 1998, will speak...
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Unfair dismissal verdict pending
AN INDUSTRIAL tribunal has reserved judgement for a month on the case of Mary Rice, the ex-head of public communications at the Medical Research Council, who took action against her former employer...
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Bell becomes Bradford vice chancellor
COLIN Bell, senior vice principal and professor of sociology at Edinburgh University, will succeed David Johns as vice chancellor of Bradford University next August. Professor Bell teaches advanced...
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Student Awards Agency shakeup promised
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson has promised a review of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland in the wake of this session's fiasco of delayed fees and grants, blamed on computer problems....
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Scottish colleges get cooperation funds
FURTHER education colleges in Scotland have won Pounds 1.3 million from the government to encourage them to work together. The Strategic Initiatives Fund for Further Education follows an ongoing...
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Praise for Irish venture
A VENTURE between Queen's University, Belfast and University College, Cork has been hailed as a landmark for north-south cooperation in Ireland. The initiative, also involving shipbuilders Harland...
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Ireland's further education sector has been left out of a cash boost for education
The province's further education sector has again been left out of a Pounds 2 million cash boost for education. Natfhe's Jim McKeown said: "The government has come up with substantial extra resources...