Province trails badly in venture capital stakes
Northern Ireland continues to lag far behind the rest of the United Kingdom in attracting venture capital, according to a study by the universities of Ulster and Southampton. Last year Pounds 20...
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Provision for faiths is holy inadequate
Universities could do more to cater for students of different faiths. Higher Education and Student Religious Identity from Exeter University and The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom...
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How you will be judged
Widening participation For full-time young first-degree students, the proposed indicators include social class as measured by the job of the household's main breadwinner; social class as measured by...
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Vice-chancellor pay survey corrections
The names of two universities were transposed in our pay survey table (THES, February 5). P. Dowling was vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey while A. Smith/G. Conway headed the University of...
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Colleges are weak link in teaching quality chain
Teaching quality is weaker in further education colleges than in universities, a compilation of inspection results from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education shows. The QAA will next week...
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Sainsbury lays down science challenge
Science minister Lord Sainsbury launched the government's new Pounds 25 million Science Enterprise Challenge this week. Universities have until April 14 to submit outline business plans for...
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UK's first undergraduate business plan competition
The universities of Cambridge and Bristol and venture capital group Amadeus are planning the UK's first undergraduate business plan competition with Pounds 30,000 available for the winners. It is...
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University Challenge
University Challenge must become a rolling year-on-year programme, says Save British Science. An SBS meeting this week looked at how to establish new spin-off companies and welcomed the new...
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Pounds 83m to enhance quality of teaching
Plans to reward high-quality teaching and to build links with industry were unveiled this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England following its council meeting. HEFCE has established...
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Single nursing body wins warm welcome
Nurse educators this week welcomed the government's decision to scrap the nurses' disciplinary body, the United Kingdom Central Council (UKCC), and the four national boards that oversee nurse...
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Disabled cuts put Blunkett in firing line
The government found itself embroiled in another row over disabled people this week after it decided to cut disability allowances for older students. Disability help groups and the National Union of...
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Pounds 114m student aid under attack
More than 90,000 college students will be worse off under the government's much-trumpeted Pounds 114 million student support package, according to the Association of Colleges. The AoC is to express...
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Research rules to remain the same
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is shying away from demanding that academic departments submit a minimum proportion of researchers for top ratings in the research assessment exercise...
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Hanging on by a thread
The future of Matthew Boulton College hangs in the balance following Whistleblowers' revelations last year of a collapse of governance at the Birmingham college. According to sources close to the...
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Lecturer may face bailiffs over court costs
Cambridge University may have to send the bailiffs to the home of lecturer Gill Evans, who is refusing to pay Pounds 15,000 in legal costs awarded against her in court. Cambridge secured the Pounds...