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It may seem surreal that one of the organisations charged with building policies for a much-expected Labour government is pushing the British racing car industry as a model for our technological...
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Senior managers quit
Two senior managers at a Roman Catholic college are to step down, just a week after publication of a damning inspection report, writes Harriet Swain. De La Salle College principal John McDermott has...
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Feet students dig in heels
Westminster University's student union is backing claims for costs from 14 mature students who, having accepted places at the university's division of podiatric medicine this autumn, have been told...
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A degree of power
I write to correct a small but important error in a news report (THES, July 5) containing the phrase "the Higher Education Quality Council's granting of degree awarding powers". HEQC does not grant...
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Quality council's role reviewed after access U-turn
A policy U-turn by the Higher Education Quality Council has heralded a review of its responsibilities across the further/higher education divide. The council will not now abandon its role in national...
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Small leap for womankind
The provocative headline notwithstanding ("Professorial quality diluting"), the short article on mass promotions at Oxford (THES, July 12) produces an odd focus on the statistics. "Women professors...
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Get the CVs right first, EU trainers told
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...
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Nursing first
Lothian College of Health Studies, which merges with Napier University on September 1, has become the first Scottish National Health Service college to offer a BSc honours degree in nursing studies....
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From Third Man to third rate
Continuing our serieson favourite films, Norman Stone contrasts the triumphs of British cinema of the 1950s, epitomised by Carol Reed's The Third Man, with the vacuous efforts of today Music...
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Beds merger
Cranfield University is merging two affiliated Bedfordshire colleges - Shuttleworth and Silsoe. Shuttleworth's 210 students and 15 staff will move the ten miles to Silsoe. Frank Hartley, vice...
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The brains behind the brawn
Huw Richards talks to the scientists helping the British Olympic team prepare for Atlanta If this goes on, I'll start to get worried about the English identity - I'm not sure it can stand up to all...
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Luther's message to sinners and saints
The attack on Luther's Reformation and its supposed impact on society as a whole described by Bob Scribner (THES, July 12) delivers no convincing argument for a new image. First, the assertion that...
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Raven has landed at Sussex
All degree programmes at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication will be validated by Sussex University following an announcement last week of an official affiliation between the two...
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Chinese graduates sail into jobs
Most of this summer's 866,000 Chinese university graduates have already found jobs, according to the Chinese State Education Commission in Beijing. Ninety per cent of the 400,000 students graduating...