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TEC chair resigns
Mike Bett is resigning the chairmanship of the TEC National Council after less than a year to avoid a clash of interests with his new regulatory role as first Civil Service commissioner.
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Pay talks
Reduced student numbers are being blamed for an Pounds 896,000 deficit and up to 65 redundancies at Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough. The Further Education Funding Council said the loss was not...
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Imperial gears up for mergers
The National Heart and Lung Institute in London has voted to merge with Imperial College on August 1. It will be followed in 1998 by the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Charing Cross and...
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Bar rethinks private pupils
The Bar was thrown into fresh controversy over equal training opportunities this week when professional standards watchdogs were asked to consider complaints about private tuition arranged by Cherie...
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Greener Glasgow
Glasgow Caledonian University has opened an energy and environment centre to provide applied research, training and consultancy on waste and environmental management for industry and Government. Hugh...
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Lottery hopeful
The University of Exeter has applied for National Lottery funds to help preserve and show a collection of printed material and artefacts on the history and pre-history of cinema. The project,...
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Graduates take lower paid jobs
Most graduate jobs do not carry starting salaries above the repayment threshold for student loans, according to a Career Services Unit survey. CSU figures show that the average salary was Pounds 13,...
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Follow my Labour
A discussion paper on the future funding of student support, launched this week by the National Union of Students, is heavily influenced by emerging Labour Party policy, student leaders claim....
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Pay talks
University employers and union leaders were to meet yesterday to break the deadlock over proposed pay scales for l995/96. The Association of University Teachers rejected a 2.1 per cent pay offer from...
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Paddling for gold
(Photograph) - Paddling for gold: Tim Bannister, a leisure student from Bicton College, Devon, trains in his Pounds 1,500 K1 sprint canoe on Bicton Lake for international regattas in Belgium and...
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AUT backs expansion
More than 200,000 new student places - equivalent to ten to 15 new universities - will have to be created by 2010 if working-class students are to be given an equal chance with middle-class...
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CVCP plan for single quality agency
A single quality assurance agency, jointly owned by institutions and external stakeholders, principally the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been proposed by the chairman of the...
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No ducking the issue
(Photograph) - No ducking the issue: Bletchley Park, site of the Government Code and Cypher School, where 50 years ago mathematicians made their crucial contribution to winning the war by cracking...
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Complex debate spoiled by hype
Michael Harrison defends his university's approach. The headline "Second best degree risk" (THES, April 28) and the Higher Education Quality Council chief executive's "timebomb for the Government"...