Aid to help Asian fallout
SOME universities are freezing overseas fees or creating bursaries to try to ease the plight of students hit by the financial crisis in South-east Asia. Heriot-Watt - with 490 overseas students,...
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Job prospects poorer for the over-25s
MATURE students gain better degrees than their younger peers, but are more likely to be jobless after graduation, a study has found. An analysis by the Higher Education Statistics Agency shows that...
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Fate sealed before all the fees palaver
Fear of rising costs is blamed for deterring mature students from university. THES investigates. JAMES Mooney will go to university next year, disillusioned and embittered. Aged 24, he resigned from...
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Money: key factor for older students
Fear of rising costs is blamed for deterring mature students from university. THES investigates RECRUITMENT to access courses, the gateway to higher study, is becoming an uphill struggle, according...
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Student debts soar to an all-time high
Edinburgh University's students association has claimed that student hardship is at an all-time high, with Edinburgh's 13,500 undergraduates holding a combined debt of Pounds 23 million. The...
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Strippers on-line
Say what you like about Doug Trainer's struggle against the evils of the government's plans for student finance, but the NUS president cannot be accused of condoning lax morality in student unions....
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Dockers' mate
Striking wharfies on one of Melbourne's docks were pleased and surprised last week to receive their first visit from a foreign union official - none other than David Triesman, general secretary of...
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Grunts of displeasure
The life of a higher education minister seems to be taking its toll on Baroness Blackstone. After her appearance at the Lords' science select committee on Wednesday, for a quizzing on such topics as...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Agency's findings for 1996/96 reveal that: Of first-degree law graduates who went to work half did not go into the law: 17.7 per cent went into management and administration 24.6...
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Modern apprentices promised places
WOLVERHAMPTON University has promised a place in any subject to all modern apprentices at Dudley Training and Enterprise Council who achieve their Level 3 National Vocational Qualification.
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Saved by senate
A MOVE to close Lancaster University's unique department of independent studies failed following a senate vote last week. Director John Wakeford described a review panel report on his department...
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Say it again, Dear
AUT Scotland has been hit by semantic difficulties in its transcript of its conference on higher education and a Scottish parliament. A failed attempt to reintroduce romance to the tertiary sector,...
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Beef: a secret weapon
It was odd to see a question about British beef directed to the Ministry of Defence the other day. Had the legacy of BSE prompted a suggestion that British beef might be better used as a biological...
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Smoke without fire
Alumnus to be proud of no 158 was one of the key figures in Iraq's development of biological weapons during the 1980s. Rihab Taha's expertise in the diseases of key crops, and the possible means by...
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Art colleges think big
THE CREATION of the world's biggest "university of the arts and design" is one idea the London Institute is considering in the second phase of a review of its five art colleges. The strengths of the...