Lobby highlights working-class hurdles
The Government must set national targets for widening participation in higher education, according to the Council for Industry and Higher Education. The CIHE published research this week which shows...
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Employers' forum gets new chief
QUANGO executive Peter Humphreys has been appointed as the new chief of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association. Mr Humphreys, special projects manager for the Environment Agency, will...
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Welsh v-c retains post
Keith Robbins has been re-elected as senior vice chancellor of the University of Wales. Professor Robbins, 57, has been vice chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter since 1995. As senior vice...
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London college nets Pounds 1m for numeracy study
KING'S College, London, has received a Pounds 1 million grant for a nationwide study aimed at raising numeracy standards among primary school children. The money, from the Leverhulme Trust, will pay...
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Work placement hitch
Sir Ron Dearing's vision of universal undergraduate work placements is "logistically impossible", according to a team of researchers sponsored by the Department for Education and Employment. Sir Ron'...
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Dearing thanks his little helper
"The first thing you do is get yourself a Shirley." This was the heady advice from Sir Ron Dearing when asked how one went about compiling a 1,700-page report on higher education. Committee secretary...
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Debt sale was avoidable
SWIFT changes to Government accounting rules could have stopped the sale of the student debt, which can be "ill afforded", finance and education experts said this week. The Government is soon to...
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GP dearth to follow grant death
The scrapping of maintenance grants for students may result in a dearth of GPs and clinical academics, a leading doctor has warned, writes Julia Hinde. Steve Tomlinson, executive secretary of the...
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Royal Institute of British Architects
* The Royal Institute of British Architects has voiced fears that the Government's proposals for fees will put off people from poorer backgrounds from studying architecture. RIBA director Chris...
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Student-elected rectors of Scotland's four ancient universities
* The student-elected rectors of Scotland's four ancient universities are to urge Scottish education minister Brian Wilson to reject proposals stripping them of their automatic right to chair the...
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Loans risk to pure science
Britain's pure science base could be eroded if a move from grants to loans leads students to choose courses more directly related to employment, a member of the Dearing inquiry committee said this...
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John Arbuthnott
* John Arbuthnott, principal of Strathclyde University and a leading member of the Dearing committee, has attacked the Government's funding proposals as "more socially regressive" than Dearing's...
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Power played out
Rather than enjoying a summer of fun or job applications, a group of engineering graduates at Nottingham Trent University are embroiled in a row over their results, which they claim are invalid....
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Don't bank on it
The world of finance has shown its harshest face to Richard Saville of the University of St Andrews, author of the 300th anniversary history of the Bank of Scotland. When he signed up to write it,...
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Golden oldies
Saville's father John - also a historian, this time at Hull - is the subject of the Antithesis summer competition. Now 81, he was entered for the research assessment exercise at the age of 80. (Both...