Applied goals also tackle the basics
The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential set the United Kingdom's science and engineering base a new challenge - to maintain world-class excellence in research, while giving increased attention...
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Contrite college refuses refund
The University of Greenwich is refusing demands from a student for a refund of fees despite admissions from senior management that she received a "bad deal". Quality assurance arrangements in its...
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Francis Crick
(Photograph) - Francis Crick is about to turn 80, but the Nobel laureate is not a man to rest on past glories. In an exclusive interview with Kam Patel on page 15, he describes his latest research...
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Labour's bold fanfare awaits Dearing's band
Labour will look to the Dearing committee to fill in the detail on its plans for higher education funding reform. The plans, formally launched this week, represent a shift from previous Labour party...
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Think-tank backs course vouchers
An Ivy League of internationally-prestigious British universities offering high class but expensive degree courses could be established if plans drawn up by the Adam Smith Institute to reorganise...
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Deathknell sounds for full state grants
The Association of University Teachers has abandoned its historic policy of support for a return to full state-funded grants for all students. But AUT delegates at last week's annual conference said...
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Model figure
Stafford College student Andrew MacCallum puts the finishing touches to his life-sized model of the first Earl of Stafford.16 April 2009: update by Andrew MacCallum"Since my college days in Stafford...
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Centenary dish
Student Kathleen Kaminski, under the watchful eye of Frederick's restaurant's head chef Andy Jeffs, sees how second chef Garritt Byrne puts the finishing touches to starters for a meal celebrating...
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Loan strangers reply
Almost seven out of ten Scots believe student loans make it less likely that young people will go on to higher education, according to a poll commissioned by the Educational Institute of Scotland....
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Union call for royal college
In a thinly veiled attack on inter-union rivalry, the general secretary of the Association of University Teachers has called for the creation of a royal college to represent education professionals....
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Collaboration problems
Natfhe has claimed that an agreement between the AUT and the Association of University and College Lecturers will damage moves towards collaboration. The AUCL, which has nearly 3,000 members in the...
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Soton college action rocks the boat
Southampton Institute director David Leyland is suing a local newspaper for libel after two weeks of bad publicity surrounding the institute's overseas franchise operation and restructuring programme...
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LSE acts to stem forecast Pounds 3m loss
Finance chiefs at the London School of Economics are reviewing corporate plans after a projected Pounds 3 million slide into the red. Governors attending an informal court meeting on Monday heard the...
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Satellites track border clashes
The violent borders between the earth's and the sun's magnetic fields are full of mysteries that could be solved by a fleet of identical spacecraft to be launched next Thursday. The Cluster...
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Postgrad funding plans under fire
Martin Harris, vice chancellor of Manchester University, has moved to quell the anger of new university and college heads over funding proposals in his review of postgraduate education. Vice...