Action on standards
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's determination to be the main quality watchdog for universities north of the border seems to have derailed plans for a UK-wide single quality agency, at...
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National Trust failure
The National Trust has failed to save fast-disappearing landscapes or to boost rural economies sufficiently, the director of the centre for the rural economy at Newcastle University, is set to say...
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Baby boom
Higher and further education institutions are being targetted this week by a national campaign to improve child-care facilities for students and staff. The Association of University Teachers, Natfhe...
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Win for Ruskin on the National Lottery
Lancaster University is to receive Pounds 2.3 million from the National Lottery to build the Ruskin Library. It will house the world's foremost collection of art, manuscripts, books and diaries...
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Science competition
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a competition to reward industry-university collaboration in science, engineering and technology. The competition will award prizes worth a total of...
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Students press for reforms
More than 100 student union officers have formed a pressure group to lobby the National Union of Students for a "more realistic" policy on education funding. The group, New Solutions, hopes to pave...
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Non-lethal weapons top UN hit-list
Analysts in new weapons technology from Bradford University are expected today to urge the United Nations to issue a complete ban on the use of "inhumane" weapons, including lasers that blind...
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Poor students rush for advice
Scottish Citizens Advice Bureaux have seen a marked increase in students with financial problems, according to a report this week. Poverty by Degrees says: "Bureaux throughout Scotland have reported...
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Here for Das Bier
Sheffield University's newsletter is highlighting a German pub evening, which it explains is intended for anyone interested in the German language or culture, and who wants to exchange ideas, new...
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Tim runs out
At last the truth can be told of the final hours in office of the former higher education minister Tim Boswell. As the storm clouds cleared in the wake of John Major's leadership campaign victory, Mr...
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DIY dinner
The Calvinist work ethic has nothing on the one at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Eddy Van Avermaet, welcoming delegates to a European adult education conference, praised...
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Tied in
Education union leaders displayed a remarkable consensus at a higher education fringe meeting at this week's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Panellists David Triesman of the Association of...
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