Fears of loans' cost
Universities would subsidise the cost of processing new privatised student loans under Government proposals, it emerged this week. Loan applications already cost higher education institutions Pounds...
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PFI not suited to all projects
The Private Finance Initiative is set to become the main capital funding mechanism for universities barely eight months after it was first introduced in the higher education sector. Universities have...
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V-cs plan paper on funding ideas
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will announce its plans to publish...
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Tender touch
(Photograph) - Tender touch: the University of Sunderland sponsored an exhibition in London this term by Virginia Bodman, its senior lecturer in charge of painting, called "Strong Meat". Her images...
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Dark horse
Heard at the back of the Labour front bench press conference last week, a journalist's stage whisper "Who's he?" accompanied by a gesture in the direction of Bryan Davies, further and higher...
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Uncivil listing
Even the Yellow Pages has become involved in sniping. The entry "Boring" reads "See Civil Engineers".
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Bard comments
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. A dispute has erupted in the heart of England where a bronze bust of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been presented to the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford...
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Natural selection
And hello to Sarah Darwin, who works at the Linnaean Society. Naturally selected for the job after tough competition.
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Free wisdom
Market forces were rampant at last week's Global Partnership '95 gathering in London, "a celebration of the diversity of the peoples of the Earth". You could pay Pounds 95 to hear a group chaired by...
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Postgrad's war on principal
A former Aberdeen University postgraduate could face imprisonment after being found guilty of breaching a court order banning him from disseminating defamatory information about the university. Peter...
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Wakey, wakey
Graeme Davies, former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is a tornado in his new job as principal of Glasgow University, not least because of his speedy dispatch of...
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Cause for alarm
The historic undergraduate privilege of lying in bed until lectures begin at 3pm has been undermined at Imperial College. Students in Southside Halls are to be subjected to "daily early morning fire...
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Absent present
Culture shock comes in unexpected forms for those who change organisation in middle life. Having delivered a lecture in his capacity as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Blue Wales
Alumni to be proud of number 21, Prince Charles, may be losing the latest round of "Di 'n' Charlie" but buried in his academic past is something that should endear him to another group that is grumpy...
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Pulling his weight
Pulling his weight: former world champion javelin thrower Steve Backley opened Oxford Brookes University's new health suite earlier this month. The centre is thought to be one of the most expensively...