Scratch 'measles approach'
GRADUATE jobs may be a thing of the past because of the huge expansion of higher education and multi-skilling requirements of industry, according to a senior industry training manager. "We still...
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Union recruiters for social partnership
On the face of it, universities and unions have little in common. Trade unions are essentially defensive organisations protecting their members' jobs and pay, a bit like an insurance company for the...
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Leeds Met students fight health faculty closure
STUDENTS at Leeds Metropolitan University will hold a rally today against planned closure of the faculty of health and social care. About 100 students occupied the office of vice chancellor Leslie...
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Lawyers jump training gun
LAW firms are abusing the recruitment process by interviewing and offering jobs to graduates early and holding offers open for only a few days. Interviews with more than 20 leading United Kingdom law...
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Nolan welcomes check on agencies
GOVERNMENT plans to create a forum for agencies that keep an eye on quangos and such public bodies as universities have received a cautious welcome from Lord Nolan, chairman of the Committee on...
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Student debt sale
FINANCIAL institutions from across the United Kingdom and abroad have been flocking to cash in on the sale of the student debt before next week's deadline. Government advisors N. M. Rothschild and...
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Bug alert
(Photograph) - Bug alert: Gordon Ramel of the Exeter University Amateur Entomological Society shows off a Malaysian Junal Nymph which will take part in science week from today until March 21. More...
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Gotcha! Auntie nabs 'wimp' wonder
Where once Bertrand Russell led, the Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication now follows. Simon Targett talks to the exponent of this year's BBC Reith lectures, Jean Aitchison True or...
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Ideas to prevent cultural collision
Olga Wotjas reports from the Society for Research into Higher Education at Heriot-Watt University. British academics may mistake politeness and respect from overseas students as shiftiness and...
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Ballot result expected on revised pay offer
STAFF in Scottish universities and colleges were this week expecting the results of a ballot on a revised pay offer which could signal the end of their industrial action. The dispute, centred on the...
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Campuses closed for World Cup
Nigeria's 31 universities, which only re-opened late last month, may once again be closed down to prevent student activism during most of March when the Junior World Cup football tournament takes...
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Take the purse but cut the strings
Just what is a university? One school of thought says that it is, in the vocabulary of the European Court, an "emanation of the state," largely paid for by the government, having a licence to trade...
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Open road to Hong Kong
THE NUMBER of universities in Hong Kong will have risen from two to seven in just ten years with the recent upgrading of the Open Learning Institute. A government spokesman said that the awarding of...