Blair education target comes under fire
Shadow education secretary Theresa May today attacked Tony Blair's 50 per cent higher education target. Ms May, who was due to speak at the North of England Education Conference, said that the target...
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Universities transfer courses to improve
* Dundee's two universities have signed a "strategic realignment" agreement to transfer courses between them, backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Five management and consumer...
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Inspectors find college 'overstated' strengths
Dunstable College has joined the growing ranks of failing colleges, with "less than satisfactory" inspection grades for management and quality control. The Bedfordshire college was also given the...
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Short degrees welcomed
University and college heads have welcomed news that the government is about to launch two-year "foundation degrees". Department for Education and Employment officials plan to publish a consultation...
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Researchers on hunt for myopic families
Cardiff University researchers are searching the United Kingdom for short-sighted families. They are looking for volunteers for a study that aims to identify genes that predispose children to develop...
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Graduate unemployment falls
Seven out of ten graduates found work immediately after completing their studies in 1998, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Graduate unemployment fell from 13 per cent in...
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A genome balloon for bursting
Before we succumb to yet more millennial angst, it is worth pausing to debunk the grandiose media claims concerning Craig Venter's paper in Science about creating life in a test tube (Soapbox, THES,...
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Tariff trouble
I was surprised that from a sample of three you could justify a report criticising the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service tariff ("Staff reject tariff reforms", THES, December 17)....
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Tariff trouble
While applauding UCAS for developing the new tariff project, there is a significant omission. Access courses, taken by many mature students preparing themselves for entry to higher education, are not...
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Black and white
I read the article by Nadia Lovell ("A case of mistaken identities", THES, December 10) with sympathy but no great surprise: she has unfortunately become a victim of political correctness in one of...
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Exchange debugged
Your article on a United States technical college spending $130,000 on a Y2K disaster plan ("US goes Y2K 'nuts'", THES, December 24/31) was only the tip of the iceberg. By the same token, the US is...
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Religious rethink
In his review of Joseph O'Keefe's Catholic Higher Education at the Turn of the New Century, part of a seven-volume series on international issues in higher education ("The appearance of incoherence...
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Tel Aviv
Israel's education ministry has launched a programme to enable students with low matriculation grades to be accepted by some of the country's universities, after a preparatory year at the Open...
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Guatemala City
Most of the 296 passengers on a Cuban DC-10 jet that crashed on landing, killing at least 26 people, were Guatemalan medical students studying in Havana returning home to spend Christmas with their...
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Teramo
Law students at the University of Teramo presented their theses and graduated before a commission of academics - one of whom was connected via computer from a hospital bed in Bologna, 600km away,...