NUS torn apart by leadership's response to fees
Confusion over tuition fees and the axing of grants is splitting the National Union of Students, writes Alan Thomson. Student unions across the country say the NUS's response to the Government's...
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Car chief heads Training Standards Council
VAUXHALL Motors boss Nick Reilly will chair the Government's new Training Standards Council. The council, set up to investigate bad practice and fraud in public-funded training, will begin...
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Edinburgh researcher alleges discrimination
A RESEARCHER in Edinburgh University's department of medical microbiology has accused the university of racial and sex discrimination after a lecturing post went to a female doctor from Bangladesh....
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Setback for union in supply agency fight
LECTURERS' union Natfhe has suffered a setback in its battle against the use of supply lecturers by colleges after an industrialtribunal last week ruled against lecturer Debra Allonby. She claimed...
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Manchester genes a hit with shoppers
MORE THAN 6,000 people visited Britain's first Gene Shop - the brainchild of a Manchester University lecturer - in the six months since it opened. The shop at Manchester Airport is a joint venture...
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Teacher Training Agency to give evidence
THE COMMONS education and employment select committee will hear evidence from the Teacher Training Agency next month for the second inquiry into teacher recruitment and retention this year. The...
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Apprentices fail to progress to higher education
ALTHOUGH more than 100,000 young people have signed up for modern apprenticeships in the two years since their introduction, few trainees are using their qualifications to progress to higher...
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Rewards for Internet bright sparks
AN AWARD scheme has been launched by the Department of Trade and Industry to reward students who create top-quality applications for the Internet. The Pounds 10,000 Young Information Society...
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Oswald takes up primary health care joint chair
A CAMBRIDGE University academic is to take up a joint chair supported by the universities of Newcastle and Teesside and the Tees health Authority. Nigel Oswald, director of general practice teaching...
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Students look to radio link to open up airwaves
RESTRICTIVE broadcasting legislation makes it difficult for many university and college students to listen to radio stations run by and for students. But the affiliation next month of the Student...
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Art colleges team up for jobs study
Twelve art colleges are planning to join forces to carry out a major study of the contribution of art and design students to the national economy. Led by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design,...
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Threat of more animal rights activist attacks
ANIMAL rights activists turned on the Government this week following attacks on five Oxford academics this month. Animal Liberation Front protesters demonstrated at Labour party headquarters in...
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Sheffield University
(Photograph) - SHEFFIELD University has bought the music library of British conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. The collection, acquired by private sale from Sir Thomas's widow, includes...
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Classroom costs revised
THE FUNDING council has bowed to pressure from higher education departments ranked as classroom-based, and therefore low-cost, and announced further re-pricings in its proposed funding methodology...
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Employers to get say on degrees
EMPLOYERS would play a key role in setting the compulsory "threshold" standards for degrees, recommended in Sir Ron Dearing's report, under Quality Assurance Agency plans. The QAA has strongly...