Leader: Lessons in regeneration from Birmingham, AL
Birmingham, Alabama, is, by its own admission, not the likeliest of venues for full membership of the US research elite. But from a standing start in the 1960s, its university has become a...
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Leader: Banning top-up fees no answer to studentpoverty
Something must be done about student poverty, but ruling out top-up fees is not necessarily the right answer. Evidence is mounting of students too hard-up to eat properly, study effectively or even...
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Notts cancer team at risk
One of Nottingham University's leading cancer drug researchers has warned that he could take his research team elsewhere unless the university gives back £3.8 million from the tobacco industry. David...
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Union jubilant as pay talks start
Union leaders are claiming victory in their pay battle with new universities and are set to halt paralysing industrial action. Vice-chancellors have dropped their opposition to minimum national terms...
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Poor students put off university by Ucas forms
Potential students from the poorest families are being turned off university education because of the application process, according to marketing and access staff. "If you imagine going into a car...
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Go to jail or study history, Nazis told
Linz University is to mount a pilot scheme giving former neo-Nazis the chance to study history and sociology in a bid to change their outlook. Around 45 extremist skinheads, who were found guilty of...
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Labour dumps top-up fees in election ploy
Education secretary David Blunkett ended months of speculation this week when he categorically ruled out top-up fees for the duration of the next Parliament, should Labour win the general election....
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Shortage subjects suffering
Newly qualified teachers in shortage subjects such as maths and science are more likely to teach poor lessons, according to a report by Ofsted. Teaching by 16 per cent of maths NQTs and 15 per cent...
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Next week
News : Costing and pricing: do you charge as much as a plumber? Features : What makes the world go around? Niall Ferguson charts the history of money Research : Which universities will gain from...
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England may fare better than Scots after RAE
English research departments could be better funded than their Scottish counterparts after this year's research assessment exercise. Last week, a board meeting of the Higher Education Funding Council...
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NI provides for two more scholarships
The government is to expand the Mitchell scholarship programme in Northern Ireland, set up in honour of US senator George Mitchell who brokered the Good Friday Agreement. The Northern Ireland...
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Ulster launches £3m Unesco centre
The director general of Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura, this week inaugurated a £3 million Unesco centre at Ulster University. It will house two research fellows, eight research students and director Alan...
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2003 deadline for reform to QAA levels
Universities have until 2003 to reform or abolish all qualifications that do not fall into the Quality Assurance Agency's strict new framework governing the nomenclature and level of higher education...
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Sainsbury moves to revamp engineering
Science minister Lord Sainsbury is to meet representatives of engineering departments, business and industry next week to discuss revamping the engineering profession and Engineering Council. The...
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Shortage of English teachers predicted
A shortage of secondary English teachers could be on the horizon, a senior educationist has warned. Barbara MacGilchrist, dean of initial teacher education at the Institute of Education, has had...