Libraries condemn 'crisis'
Libraries in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom have united to raise concerns about the pricing and licensing of scholarly journals. A group of Dutch and German libraries, led by...
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Medical education anxieties
Medical school heads fear that cost might be put before quality when it comes to deciding how and where to train extra doctors for the United Kingdom. Medical schools and associated hospitals...
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Final-year students forced to commute for two hours a day
Final-year students at the University of Wales College of Medicine are being forced to commute for two hours a day because a change in the medical curriculum means their normal hospitals are overrun...
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Reading opens door to dealing rooms
Reading University's business school will open next week a Pounds 2.5 million building for the financial markets complete with dealing rooms, writes Kam Patel. The building's costs were covered by...
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Employability courses attract cash
LARGE chunks of money accompany the more than 100 key skills projects that run across higher education. Many are concentrated in the new universities but some research-led institutions are also...
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Job skills may be added on
UNIVERSITIES should consider bolting on crash courses in skills that make students more employable, a government-commissioned report is to recommend. The courses could be part of a wider effort by...
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Mega-classes lead to new methods
LECTURERS are increasingly abandoning the lectern in favour of other teaching methods, according to the interim findings of a survey of universities. Harold Silver, who is conducting the survey for...
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Technology for art's sake gets share of Pounds 10m
THE third phase of a Pounds 10 million programme to develop technology for improving teaching in higher education is being announced this week, writes Alison Utley. Thirty-two new university projects...
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Cash boost could be more costly
The Association of Scottish Colleges has challenged the Scottish Office announcement of anPounds 8 million boost for further education, warning that colleges face the loss of almost Pounds 1.5...
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'Recipe for confusion'
Government proposals for Regional Development Agencies are "a recipe for confusion, duplication and frustration", the House of Commons select committee for education and employment said this week. "...
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Too fast is bad
The rapid expansion of franchised further education is damaging quality, college inspectors warned this week. Colleges' collaborative arrangements with private employers and community organisations...
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Bladders open to help fathom currents
A flotilla of "inflatable bladders" that helped map deep ocean currents has led oceanographers at Southampton University to discover defects in global weather forecasting computer models. Southampton...
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Breast milk danger
DANGEROUS levels of chemicals found in breast milk may trigger cancer, scientists have found. The chemical pollutants DDT (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) have...
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Colour sight probed
How the brain perceives colour is under study by scientists at Keele University to help improve image transfer on the Internet and develop robotic vision. A team, led by Stephen Westland in the...
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Colour sites guide
Researchers at Reading University have completed a series of projects into how colour and tone contrast in the built environment can help partially sighted people navigate better and identify...