GNVQS gain elite favour
Students with vocational qualifications are getting into top research universities, it was revealed this week. Others are bypassing universities and landing higher paid jobs than traditional...
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Open University boss sounds cost alarm
Singapore. India can offer distance education at one-fiftieth of the cost of United Kingdom Open University cour- ses, the OU's vice chancellor Sir John Daniel has warned. Sir John questioned the...
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Namibia buries the corpse of apartheid
Windhoek. There is a camaraderie at the University of Namibia that is a rare commodity on campuses. It may have something to do with size - fewer than 4,000 students are enrolled here - or to do with...
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Stirling work in summer
Your correspondent (THES, August 9) reports that just two institutions are running summer semesters. The University of Stirling has been offering a seven-week credit-bearing summer academic programme...
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Divorce grounds high-fliers
Children from single-parent homes are losing out in the US college stakes. Tim Cornwell reports Children born in the late 1970s, when divorce rates in the United States reached their current level of...
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Swathe of lecturer redundancies hits Wales
Two Welsh colleges are to make the biggest set of compulsory redundancies in British higher education this year. Up to 20 lecturers and the same number of technical and support staff could lose their...
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Dundee wins grant
Dundee University's department of biochemistry, which recently held a topping out ceremony for its Pounds 12 million Wellcome Trust Building, has won a Pounds 4.5 million grant from the Medical...
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Morse code
The 1996 award for subliminally reinforcing confidence in the examination system goes to the central schedulers at ITV. On the night before this year's A-level results were released, with hopeful...
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Welsh wizardry grows
Three new research centres at the University of Wales, Bangor, have been recognised as centres of expertise by the Welsh Development Agency, part of a network of such centres springing up across...
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Knights of a not-so-rounded table
In the fourth of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Colin Flint (left) argues that the 'Almighty' MrFixit Sir Ron needs a more radical committee for post-...
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Why pay for tuition when the French do not?
Tom Husband's article (THES, August 16) once again raises the question of students' having to pay tuition fees as if it were self-evident that this is the only way that higher education can now be...
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On their knees
(Photograph) - On their knees: police order students demanding reunification of North and South Korea to kneel in submission after a nine-day confrontation ended violently when police stormed the...
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A-level madness
The blow finally fell on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press office last week. No, nothing to do with downsizing or rationalisation. Their real fear had always been a slow news...
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Human tumours grown in the lab
A major obstacle to researching radiation-induced cancers has been cracked by scientists. They have found a way of inducing such cancers in human cells growing in a petri dish. Until now scientists...
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Horror story from assessment visit
I agree with Professor Elton (THES letters, August 16) that students today and tomorrow deserve an explanation of the apparent paradox that 99 per cent of departments assessed for teaching quality...