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Students anxious over fee plans Students at Britain’s leading universities are to meet vice-chancellors today to press the case against higher tuition fees. Hamish Common, president of...
Students anxious over fee plans Students at Britain’s leading universities are to meet vice-chancellors today to press the case against higher tuition fees. Hamish Common, president of...
FINANCIAL TIMES Colin Lucas, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, writes that Oxford has made decision-making clearer and more efficient, has developed academic partnerships and is a pioneer...
Commonwealth plans to simplify assessments An initiative to simplify qualification and assessment frameworks across the Commonwealth’s 54 member states is being discussed by officials and...
Deadline: 29/12/2000
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). The dialect of Derry/Londonderry. Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Bangladesh’s eunuchs The Material World (4.30 R4). Food scientists Andy Taylor and Don Mottram on...
City University, London Iqbal Owadally , formerly a PhD student, has been appointed lecturer in actuarial science; Jaap Spreeuw has qualified as actuary with the Dutch Actuarial Society. Laura...
Commonwealth scholarships to increase Commonwealth education ministers are to discuss increasing the number of students on the organisation’s mobility scholarship scheme by 50 per cent by 2003. A...
Floud wins CVCP leadership Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, has won the contest to become the next president of the newly relaunched Committee of Vice-Chancellors and...
FINANCIAL TIMES Fiona Harvey looks at how the power of silicon chips has accelerated advances in biology from genetics to the workings of human organs. Mark Turner writes that a host of African crops...
If there is one lesson for which I am most abidingly grateful to Malcolm Bradbury, who taught me in the early 1970s, it was the possibility of taking myself seriously as a writer. In all of my...
Sir Malcolm Bradbury's generosity and support for the literary arts will long be remembered. He opened his home and his heart to young writers and showed how universities can be places where...
Turning the Tide (11.00 am R4). Wind turbines versus habitat conservation in Cambridgeshire. Superhuman Debate (3.00, 6.00, 9.00 and 12 midnight BBC Knowledge). Robert Winston and fellow scientists...
The History Man dies Universities were today mourning the death of author and academic Sir Malcolm Bradbury, who has died aged 68. He was as famous for his teaching skills as for his screenplays and...
Foundation degrees will debut in 2001 Forty foundation degree courses for 2,000 students will be offered from September 2001, the higher education funding council announced today. The two-year...
UK pledges £1m to Commonwealth scheme At the Halifax, Canada, meeting of Commonwealth education ministers, Britain has tripled its contribution to the Commonwealth of Learning to £1 million a year...