Sharjah sheikh gives Pounds 2 million to Exeter
EXETER University has received a Pounds 2 million gift from a former postgraduate student, for research and teaching in the school of languages. The money, from Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi,...
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Aberdeen raises Pounds 8.5 million over past year
ABERDEEN University, which is planning a major fund raising campaign next year, has already attracted Pounds 8.5 million in gifts, benefactions and pledges over the past year. Duncan Rice, Aberdeen's...
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Scots toe the quality line
THE Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has taken the first step towards signing up with the new Quality Assurance Agency, following its own prolonged standoff. The council has now decided to...
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Apprentice 'sorcery'
Plans for graduate apprenticeships have been dismissed as "a fudge" to stop the expected exodus from universities when tuition fees are introduced next year. Education minister Tessa Blackstone this...
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Savouring a centenary
(Photograph) - Savouring a centenary: Constance Savery, one of the group of first women to receive a full degree from Oxford University, commemorated the event this week with a party at Oriel College...
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Sheriff tells son to work for keep
An Aberdeen University law student suing his estranged mother for money towards his living costs, was told to get a job this week after being awarded an interim payment of Pounds 60 a month until a...
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Loans mooted for part-timers
MINISTERS have urged the National Advisory Group for lifelong learning to take on board research that supports extending loans to part-time students. The group, which met this week to discuss its...
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Lib Dems back Blunkett
PRESSURE is mounting on the Treasury for a change in public accounting rules to release Pounds 1 billion for universities. Liberal Democrat education spokesman Don Foster has pledged full support to...
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Oxbridge bows to state siege
OXBRIDGE struggled to show eagerness this week to improve access for state school pupils without raising the spectre of quotas. A meeting of the Cambridge Admissions Forum agreed to aim for a 65:35...
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Admin bumps up workload
LECTURERS have less time for their students because of significant increases in administrative workloads, according to a survey of new universities and higher education colleges. About 400 out of the...
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Further education colleges need Pounds 48 million says Natfhe
* Further education colleges need Pounds 48 million from the government just to fund this year's pay rise, says Natfhe. A union survey shows that unless the money is made available only a quarter of...
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Hail, Mary
If she is unsuccessful in next Thursday's Irish presidential election, a warm welcome back for Mary McAleese is assured at Queen's University, Belfast, where her day job as a law academic is based....
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Story time
The University of the Highlands and Islands may not be such an original scheme after all. David Warner, pro vice chancellor of the University of Central England, points out that Inverness University...
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Picture posted
Latest news on the photographic career of Ted Nield, ex CVCP PR person and now at the Geological Society of London. Having put his holiday snaps on the GS magazine Geoscientist twice in a row, he has...
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Hair, heir
Things are almost as much fun at the University of Armageddon (The THES October 10), the imaginary university where managers can let their hair down confidentially. Which institution can possibly...