Dropouts prompt inquiry
The English funding council is launching a study to find out if more students are dropping out of degree courses. It has put details of a research study out to tender and bids have to be in by...
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Sky light
(Photograph) - Sky light: with gripping new observations coming in from space probes such as Hubble, Galileo, Clementine and Ulysses, Dennis Ashton, director of the Star Centre, just opened at...
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Cold war resurfaces between anthropologists
British academics have been accused of exhibiting "the inertia of the cold war mentality" by criticising their Russian colleagues. The council of the Royal Anthropological Institute passed a...
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Eastern designs:Fumiko Nakamura
(Photograph) - Eastern designs: a final-year art student from Japan designed this year's Christmas card for the University of Dundee. Fumiko Nakamura's design, inspired by Indian textiles, featured...
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NUS may fight for free resits
The National Union of Students is to consider launching a national campaign to abolish resit fees following a victory by Strathclyde University's students association. Strathclyde, which generates...
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Standards slipping Forth warns
Degree standards are slipping as student numbers rise, Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has warned. The nature of the degree was being "redefined" to accommodate bigger student intakes, Mr...
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Bluffer's guide to Christmas lecturing
There is nothing as terrifying in all the academic world, says one scientist; it is like going to the guillotine in a cart that you cannot stop, says another. Agreeing to give the Royal Institution...
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Virtual cash for two
Two university-led projects have won more than Pounds 8 million in the Regional Challenge competition for European Regional Development Funds. Teesside University was awarded Pounds 5.1 million...
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Cash sanctions
Institutions which fail to supply satisfactory financial data may be penalised under new model financial memoranda agreed by the last Higher Education Funding Council for England meeting. Brian...
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Merger remit
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Further Education Funding Council have set up a joint committee to consider issues likely to arise from mergers between institutions in the...
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MRC chief named
George Radda, British Heart Foundation professor of molecular cardiology and head of Oxford University's biochemistry department, will succeed Sir Dai Rees as chief executive of the Medical Research...
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North-east pride
A short story competition in honour of Booker prize-winner Pat Barker has been announced at New College Durham. The Pat Barker prize is designed to discover a new generation of writers from the...
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High road to HE
The largest single group of 1994/95 Scottish school-leavers, per cent, went into higher education, according to the latest Scottish Office figures. Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for...
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Smithers counsels against unity
Calls from politicians, education leaders and captains of industry for a unified qualifications system should be resisted, MPs have been told. A single modular qualifications framework embracing...
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Probe of the Yule slog
Christmas can be lonely for overseas students but a new survey hopes to make it happier, Tony Tysome reports. The council for international education, UKCOSA, is planning to launch a national survey...