A-level reforms score few points with tutors
Admissions tutors have hit out at proposals to reform the A-level points system. Under the plans, an A grade could become equivalent - in terms of points - to two rather than five E grades....
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Human genome project wins US IT award
A leading United States institution has presented the Wellcome Trust's Human Genome Project in Cambridgeshire with an award for its efforts in cataloguing the human body's 100,000 genes. The...
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Black students need black mentors
Black students undertaking social work training would benefit from black mentors, according to a Glasgow Caledonian University study that raises questions of institutional racism. Researchers from...
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Education is key to eradicating racism
Racism can only be eradicated if improvements are made in education, said Neville Lawrence (pictured), father of murdered teenager Stephen, at a meeting of Kent University's law society. The...
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Individual tutoring has got it taped
Tape recorders could make the highly regarded but expensive system of individual tutoring available to many more students. According to researchers Terry Mayes at Glasgow Caledonian University and...
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NUS occupied by free education campaign
Thirty members of the student pressure group, the Campaign for Free Education, occupied the National Union of Students' London headquarters after the NUS refused to support their mass non-payment...
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Colleges need extra A-level funding
The Association of Colleges claims colleges need Pounds 700 extra per student per year to deliver the new A-level curriculum being introduced from September 2000. The association, which holds its 16-...
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Entente Cordiale recruits for fourth year
Forty British and French students will join the fourth year of the Entente Cordiale scholarship scheme in the new academic year. The scheme, set up by French president Jacques Chirac and former...
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Rise in research students
Interim data suggests postgraduate students this year will outnumber the total for 1997-98. A snapshot of the student population taken in December 1998 by the Higher Education Statistics Agency...
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1,000 extra places for medical students
(Photograph) - The 1,000 extra places for medical students that will be created from next year will not be enough, according to the British Medical Association. 'The problem is that there are too few...
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Teachers in class
Electronic conferencing by SoftArc's FirstClass will be part of a training programme in information and communication technology offered to teachers by the Open University and the educational...
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Staff face time watch on work
Academics could be forced to complete timesheets so that universities can better account for public funds, a meeting of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will hear today. From...
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Experts cash in on grades rush
Academics employed by the Quality Assurance Agency to assess higher education teaching are painting too rosy a picture, an expert has claimed. Universities are paying such academics up to Pounds 1,...
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Anger over public cash for private sector plan
Private higher education institutions will be able to claim public support from 2000 following a government review. But the plans have come under fire from both public and private institutions,...
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Britain plays central role in Pounds 3m digital library research link-up
A clutch of British universities are to play a major role in a ground-breaking international research initiative aimed at making the digital library a reality for academics worldwide. The first six...