Middle class access fear
Europe's universities have been warned they risk barring the middle classes from higher education if they try to bridge the funding gap by increasing tuition fees substantially without tax...
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Envoy soothes union fears
A TUC special envoy is trying to make peace between the two main lecturers' unions after fears of membership wars at universities merging with colleges. Union relations officer Brian Ward was called...
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Research overheads row hits new peak
Disagreement over who should pay the overheads for charity-funded medical research increased this week as the issue became linked to charities' demands that they should benefit financially from the...
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Medics on community call
A shift in the teaching of medical students out of universities and into the community was launched this week as the Government proposed changes to its allocation of funds for medical teaching. From...
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Students to get learning vouchers
A voucher funding system for post-16 education and training to create a more student-led market is proposed in a Government-backed consultation paper published this week, writes Tony Tysome. But the...
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Quip per quo
No need for the Association of University Teachers to fork out on an expensive after-dinner speaker. General secretary David Triesman is always first to his feet. At last week's AUT conference he...
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Voters' cough
Smoking has caused more complicated problems for Birkbeck College philosophers: when someone demanded that their common room be no-smoking they could not decide on how to decide whether it should....
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Heart attacks mapped
A study of the prevalence of heart attacks should help target scarce healthcare resources on those in greatest need. Researchers from Nottingham University's geography department and the division of...
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Cash for libraries means expansion
Study space for 200,000 extra students will come out of the Pounds 45 million handed out for university and college libraries, the Higher Education Funding Council for England said this week. The...
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Enrolments rising
English universities enrolled 5 per cent more higher education students in 1994/95 than in the previous year, and 43 per cent more than in 1990/91. The number of higher education students in...
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Men tend towards geography thirds
A survey of geography degree results has found marked differences between male and female graduates, the most striking being that men are more likely to get third-class degrees. Keith Chapman, head...
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Researchers aim for greener cities
The explosion in the number of people living in cities is damaging the environment. At a recent meeting of the Natural Environment Research Council's atmospheric science community, scientists tabled...
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Clubbers trailed on hunt for fun
Contrary to popular opinion, the majority of young adults say they go to pubs and clubs to socialise with friends rather than to get drunk. Going out to dance and listen to music is more highly rated...
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Part-timers lose most jobs
Nearly 10,000 further education lecturers have been or are to be made redundant, according to figures released by Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union today. Part-timers have borne the...