Colleges chosen for excellence network
* Sixty-nine colleges have been chosen to join the Learning and Skills Council's programme for developing a network of Centres of Vocational Excellence across the UK. The colleges were chosen to...
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Students looks through the Welsh window
* Software engineers at the University of Wales Aberystwyth have found a way to make the Windows 2000 system more accessible: by developing a version in Welsh. Welsh-speaking academics and students...
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Correction
In our league table listing of subjects with top scores for teaching ( THES , May 10), we incorrectly omitted English at Glasgow (RAE 5*); in music, Salford College should read Salford University,...
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Hike in loan interest rate 'would hit worst-off'
Commercial interest rates on student loans would penalise the poor far more than the rich, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. Ms Hodge was called to a special late-night sitting...
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Hodge pleads for more cash in run-up to review
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week met prime minister Tony Blair to plead the case for more cash for universities and colleges. Ms Hodge was due to meet Mr Blair yesterday as the...
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The NHS is heralded as Blair's saviour
How will the government widen participation and what are the implications? The National Health Service could be the salvation for universities struggling to meet prime minister Tony Blair's widening...
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'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills
Universities need to teach working-class students social and "life skills" or many will fail to earn as much as their middle-class peers when they graduate, a report has warned. Research commissioned...
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'Callous' Hodge is berated by union
Furious lecturers' leaders said they could no longer support government plans for widening participation and called higher education minister Margaret Hodge "a disgrace" at their annual council last...
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Cash constraints stymie colleges' bid to deliver participation target
Further education colleges are hampered by funding and quality-control constraints in their efforts to help deliver government targets for expanding higher education, college leaders said this week....
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AUT 'must form alliance'
The Association of University Teachers must form a federation with other education trade unions to survive an uncertain future of diversification, mergers and local pay bargaining, a discussion paper...
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QAA says that some face old-style inspection until 'light touch' arrives
Sixteen universities will face the old-style teaching inspections that vice-chancellors thought they had seen the back of, the Quality Assurance Agency has confirmed, writes Phil Baty. Funding chiefs...
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Trio has designs on £1bn facility
Scientists from Yorkshire were in Bonn this week to bid to host the world's most powerful neutron-scattering facility. The £1 billion project would be a major centre for the study of physics,...
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Students suffer in target drive
Students are getting a raw deal at university because money is being drained from teaching and research to support the government's widening participation (WP) drive. Research shows that the...
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Analysis: Canada aims to reverse senior current
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports There are widespread assumptions that Canada is better suited to...
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Analysis: Critics fear R&D largesse hurts teaching
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports Science towers over Canada's enriched research landscape. But its...