Commonwealth fails to lure ODA cash
Ministers have rejected pressure to restore spending on a scholarship programme for Commonwealth postgraduate students in Britain despite a strong call from a powerful committee of MPs. In its...
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Musical chairs
So much for stories that the Labour leadership is hell-bent on finding Tory defector Alan Howarth a safe seat. While the Wythenshawe nomination for which he is bidding promises an easy return at the...
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Opposition spokesman steps down
The German Social Democrats' parliamentary education spokesman is standing down as a member of the Bundestag after months of disagreement with his party on education policy issues. Peter Glotz said...
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Cash back for over-26s
The Department of Education in Northern Ireland has reinstated the right of mature students to claim an Older Students Allowance worth up to Pounds 1,070 a year. The DENI originally abolished the...
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Queen's swells RC staff intake
Queen's University Belfast has made significant progress towards fair job participation by Roman Catholics and Protestants over the past eight years, new statistics reveal. The university's...
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Worry over Wigan's foray in India
The British Council is worried that an ambitious bid by a further education college to establish a chain of distance-learning outposts in India could backfire. Wigan and Leigh College has set up a...
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Disability law
Further and higher education colleges must publish details of the facilities they provide for disabled students from next month. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 requires institutions to detail...
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Joe N'Danga Koroma
Former military cadet Joe N'Danga Koroma is now looking forward to a career in healing the scars of conflict as opposed to inflicting them. He was heading for a promising career in the Sierra Leone...
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Responsible science
Is it really part of a scientist's responsibility to avoid advocating "radical measures" until cause and effect are firmly established ("A Shot in the dark", THES, June 14)? Should a responsible...
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Bathetic excuses
Yes it's working - but the Government is oddly reluctant to claim the credit. Were Lord Robbins alive today he would be amazed that we have a higher education system with a 30 per cent age...
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Treasury eyes spy uncrowded rooms
The Government has been handed a powerful new weapon in its battle to prove that universities are not underfunded, with the issue this week of a report from the National Audit Office. The report The...
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Spinning right out of control
It may have provided juicy soundbites for newspapers and politicians, but the spin the ESRC put on our findings about grammar in schools does no one any favours, warn Christopher Brumfit and Rosamond...
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Trust is key to Chechen peace
Boris Yeltsin may have boosted his chances of success in the second round of Russia's presidential elections next month by securing a Chechen peace deal, but the road to a lasting solution to the...
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From Plato to Pluto
Golden Labrador Alf this week gained his Dundee University philosophy department attendance certificate, conferred by university principal Ian Graham-Bryce. Alf has been coming to philosophy classes...
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