Overseas students bring UK Pounds 1 billion
Overseas students generate Pounds 1 billion for the national economy, including Pounds 310 million in fees paid directly to British universities. There are more than 100,000 international students in...
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Tough decision
Who makes the really important decisions, like who should fill the new post of chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals? The Higher Education Funding Council, perhaps?...
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Cutting comment
Congratulations to the Ocean Drilling Program which the Natural Enviroment Research Council writes, is "at the cutting edge of ocean science".
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Do Ron Ron
Hello to that righter of wrongs, Health and Safety inspector for education Mr Ron Wright.
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Through keyhole
Scottish preoccupations with devolution and self-empowerment have reached the realms of medicine, at least in the north-east. To help to liberate you from the authorities, Aberdeen University...
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Judgement day
The University of Cambridge's Latinists were at full stretch last week for the university's new batch of honorary degrees (see page 1), since the nomination speeches are performed in both English and...
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Call for chemistry shake-up
Many chemistry departments cannot survive in their present form, says a report by the Royal Society of Chemistry. There are too many undergraduate places; insufficient money to keep up the research...
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College evicts theatre company
At the end of next month the Soho Theatre Company will make a final exit from London's Cockpit Theatre, its home for the past four years, after a bitter row with landlords The City of Westminster...
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Sheffield gets double honours
The two most senior post-holders at Sheffield Hallam University emerged with honours in the Queen's Birthday list, which saw a host of awards for services to further and higher education. Sheffield...
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Scientists patently poor at capitalising on new ideas
A decade of Government policy aimed at helping university scientists to become more adept at commercial exploitation of their work has failed to improve their knowledge and expertise in the use of...
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External examiner reform
The Higher Education Quality Council is consulting universities on fundamental reform of the external examiner system - reform the council argues is vital if the system is to be of any value in the...
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Snags appear over franchises
Colleges are crying out for guidance in the wake of the Handsworth College report. Alison Utley reports "The rapid growth has taxed the college's ability to manage and control the effective delivery...
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Luton's career vision is strictly personal
Luton is not a main stop on the milkround. It is not on the beaten track of blue chip companies chasing brilliant undergraduates. Yet the evidence suggests that this newest of English universities...
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Science 'losing its cutting edge'
Big changes in the way science is practised is leading to a new framework for the production of knowledge that could mean a decline in scientific objectivity, according to physicist and science...