New procedure for gripes about HEFCE
Universities and colleges with gripes against the Higher Education Funding Council for England now have a new way to settle them. HEFCE has established a procedure that sets out how institutions can...
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Encouraging response to business reach out
Universities and colleges have welcomed proposals for a higher education reach out to business and the community fund, following a consultation by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Further boost to PhD stipends considered
The need to further increase stipends for PhDs students was expected to be discussed at a joint meeting of the heads of the research councils this week. Also likely to be discussed were changes to...
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Dolly technology sold for Pounds 20 million to US
This week's sale of the technology behind Dolly, the first cloned sheep, to an American biotech company should bring more than Pounds 20 million to the institute where she was born, it is estimated....
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FE student numbers up to 2.4 million in 1998
Further education student numbers increased by 2 per cent last year, the Further Education Funding Council said. According to colleges' student data, 2.4 million students were enrolled at colleges in...
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Bailiffs ready to eject Sussex fee protesters
Bailiffs were this week to forcibly eject students from offices at Sussex University that they occupied in a protest against tuition fees. About 150 students stormed Sussex House last Tuesday in...
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Rape claim woman to sue Scottish university
A former St Andrews University student, who says she was gang-raped while on an exchange course in Ukraine in 1996, is expected to raise an action against the university by the end of this month....
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Students play dirty and get a clean sheet
Aberdeen University has avoided a public airing of its dirty linen by revoking a proposal to axe the linen service to certain halls of residence. Students had this week threatened to send up to 1,000...
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Home student numbers up
The number of home students starting a postgraduate course is up by 4.8 per cent this year, mainly at the masters level. Higher Education Funding Council figures show the number of students enrolled...
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Top dons' pay set to rocket
The sky could be the limit for top academics under "explosive" pay recommendations by the Bett committee. Sources close to the independent review of higher education, chaired by Sir Michael Bett,...
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Unison gears up for strikes
University members of public service union Unison voted this week to plan for industrial action, including all-out indefinite strikes, if pay demands were not met. But delegates to the union's higher...
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Defence research slashed by Pounds 7m
Government spending on defence research has been cut by Pounds 7 million this financial year - prompting concerns that the UK may not be able to keep up with its allies when it comes to developing...
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Computer short-fall
Colleges are woefully ill-prepared for the information technology revolution and need at least another 100,000 computers in the short term, the Further Education Funding Council has warned. The...
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College 'sleaze' investigated
A ministerial-led clampdown on alleged financial abuse, incompetence and excessive growth in colleges is causing increasing embarrassment to some of the sector's most influential figures, including...
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Calls for the abolition of the Further Education Funding Council
* The Further Education Development Agency has called for the abolition of the Further Education Funding Council and its replacement with a national funding body for all post-16 education and...