CVCP counsel favours top-up fee wait
LEGAL advice to be presented to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals next week is likely to rule out top-up fees for 1997. The CVCP sought advice because of concerns about the position of...
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Director's daughters on Soton petition
SOUTHAMPTON Institute director, David Leyland, ordered an investigation into complaints from students, including two of his daughters, about "unfair marking" on their course at the institute, it...
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New v-cs lambaste 'pensions snatch'
VICE CHANCELLORS of new universities claim that Government pension proposals will handicap the former polytechnic sector in its attempts to cope with funding cuts. One leading vice chancellor...
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Higher Education Quality Council
The Higher Education Quality Council has attacked a Scottish review of teaching quality assessment for its comments on academic quality audit, writes Olga Wojtas. The Miller review group, set up...
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Ms Docs squashed
Women seeking senior positions in medical schools are victims of discrimination, according to Joe Collier of St George's Hospital Medical School in this week's Lancet. The proportion of university-...
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Random explosion
Radical changes in the student profile over recent years have been haphazard and variable, according to the the Institute of Employment Studies annual graduate review. Expansion has allowed access by...
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I'm the future, fly me
(Photograph) - An extensive British canal network was one of the winning solutions for transport problems proposed by students this week as part of the European Week for Scientific and Technological...
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Bible gets a title after 470 years
(Photograph) - Title deeds: a complete copy of William Tyndale's 1526 English translation of the New Testament, with a previously undiscovered title page (see above), has been found in the Bible...
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Massive shake-up for cash-strapped OU
The Open University may have to shed up to 350 jobs and completely reorganise its regional structure because of a financial crisis. In one year the university has gone from a 1994/95 surplus of...
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Maths fails to muster A-level student troops
Students on A-level courses have trebled in number in the past 30 years but the proportion of 18-year-olds taking science and mathematics has stuck stubbornly at 5 per cent, according to a study...
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A First glass honour
Sunderland and Dan Klein share a passion for glass. And, as one of the first professors in the subject, he tells Harriet Swain about his love of collecting and the new National Glass Centre being...
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Farid the fair and faithful
South African lecturer Farid Esack is one of a rare breed, the radical Muslim, unafraid to challenge Islamic prejudice. His appointment to the new Gender Equality Commission is all grist to the mill...
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Club ties sideline oval ball tradition
Huw Richards reports on the future of that most ancient of university sports, rugby union, now that it is played by professionals and awash with lucre. All other things were merely side issues. We...
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Cities light torch of excellence
One of the most remarkable developments in the 20th century is the way modern education has become accepted as the norm throughout the world. All those who regularly attend meetings on education...