Reforms leave no time for students' casual jobs
Ministers' A-level reforms will alienate poorer students and undermine widening access plans, delegates at the Association of Colleges' annual 16-19 conference heard this week, writes Phil Baty....
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Minister hails 'centres for excellence'
Henry McLeish, Scotland's new minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has delighted further education by hailing it as the centre of excellence and centre of communities in promoting a...
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Principal will not get his job back
It is "quite impracticable" for Glasgow Caledonian University to reinstate former principal Stan Mason, sacked two years ago for gross misconduct, an employment appeal tribunal has ruled, writes Olga...
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Salmon versus baked beans
Tuition fees have emerged as a progressive, even left-wing, cause in the online debate run by The THES and Nexus. Combined with an aggressive programme of means-tested assistance for less well-off...
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Whistleblowers
Academics are concerned that increasing reliance on commercial funds is damaging academic freedom, the THES readers survey has revealed (right). But a report from the THES Netherlands correspondent,...
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Continental canvas for graffiti art
Graffiti artists have moved to movable canvases and are using long distance freight trains like a steel internet to broadcast their spray-painted messages, a Canadian sociologist says. In a speech to...
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De Montfort scores South African first
Britain's De Montfort University has become the first registered private higher education institution in South Africa as the country tries to formalise its fast-growing private sector under new laws...
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Jewish numbers fall at Princeton
Until the middle of this century, America's elite Ivy League universities restricted the number of Jewish students they accepted, and Jews were often banned from campus social organisations. So...
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Displaced medics sue to stay in country
More than 1,500 Greek students who were forced to abandon their studies at Yugoslav universities at the start of Nato's bombing campaign are threatening legal action against the Greek education...
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Albin Kurti
* Albin Kurti, one of the leaders of the Kosovar-Albanian Pristina University student union, was being held in the Liljan prison, according to ethnic Albanians expelled from Kosovo to Macedonia. Mr...
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Drop-outs disturb hi-tech plan
Just over a third of students in Ireland's fast-growing institute of technology sector drop out or fail their exams in their first year in college, a study shows. The highest leaving/failure rate was...
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Fees waived for mining students
Three schools of mine engineering in Spain are to waive tuition fees in an attempt to boost falling admissions. Students who get a mark of more than seven in the university entrance exam will have...
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Kingston's Pounds 1m media future
Greg Dyke, Pearson Television's chief executive, launched Kingston University's Pounds 1 million digital media centre this week with a prediction of massive growth and booming job prospects in the...
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Journal publishers appeal to state funders for net progress
Publishers of non-scientific academic journals cannot get properly set up for the internet without government money, according to two recent Canadian grant recipients. In April, the federal...
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Web gets personally precise for students
The University of Sydney's 35,000 students and 5,000 staff have become the first in Australia to use a new web portal system that aggregates content and services from a wide range of sources onto a...