Heads stonewall QAA proposals
Plans for assuring quality in higher education stalled this week as vice-chancellors and principals rejected them as "unacceptable" and the Quality Assurance Agency seemed poised to reject all...
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The QAA has rejected accusations
The QAA has rejected accusations of "creeping anglicisation" in its proposals to axe the distinctive MA title for some Scottish undergraduate degrees. The consultative paper proposes restricting the...
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Ethics may have canned tomatoes
An anti-GM political agenda, fuelled by public concern, may be responsible for threatening eight years of research into health-boosting transgenic tomatoes, scientists have warned. A long-established...
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Blackstone hint brings Bett cash cheer
Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone has signalled that extra government cash could be available to boost lecturers' pay in the forthcoming spending review, writes Alan Thomson. Baroness...
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Disabled access law will cost unis millions
Universities and colleges face a multi-million pound bill to meet new legislation on disabled student access. Education secretary David Blunkett announced this week that he will bring forward...
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Illiberal liberalism of Islamophobia
NO PHYSICAL FILERadhakrishnan Nayar objects to the analysis that Mahatma Gandhi's Hinduisation of Indian independence was a cause of Muslim separatism ("Belief in the cause of a nation's ills", THES...
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Part-time allowance will benefit 24,000
Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities, has welcomed the government's decision to give the disabled student allowance to part-time higher education students in England and Wales....
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Sir Gareth to take over at Wolfson College
Sir Gareth Roberts, vice-chancellor of Sheffield University and a former chair of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, is to be the next president of Wolfson College, Oxford. He will...
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Pension fund pays for ethical guidance
The Universities Superannuation Scheme is to recruit specialist advisers to monitor the companies in which it invests for socially responsible behaviour. As Britain's third largest pension fund, it...
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Lecturers strike over low-paid 'assistants'
n Sheffield College lecturers have gone on strike just a week after the troubled college became the first to be taken over by funding council troubleshooters. Lecturers' union Natfhe was due to shut...
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Students defy leaders to stay with NUS
Two student unions have voted to remain affiliated to the National Union of Students, in spite of strong campaigns to go it alone. Of the 2,400 students at Southampton University who took part,...
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Post-16 superquango to close funding gap
Ministers confirmed this week that 16-19 funding for schools will be channelled through the new post-16 superquango, the Learning and Skills Council. Education secretary David Blunkett confirmed that...
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Liverpool Hope loses title bid
Liverool Hope has lost its High Court bid to keep its "university college" title. The college of higher education won leave to appeal against the government's ban on the prestigious title for...
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King of spin Max donates Pounds 25,000
Max Clifford, show business publicist and public relations guru, has made a Pounds 25,000 benefaction to Bournemouth University to help disabled students access media studies courses. He will also...
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Lessons from the American model - 'let things run a bit rather than try to control them from the centre'
Key members of United Kingdom higher education are absorbing the entrepreneurial ways of the United States. Tony Tysome reports Politicians, civil servants and institutional heads are once again...