Keele staff cut to plug gap
Staffing levels at Keele University's modern languages department could be halved to help plug a Pounds 400,000 funding gap. The dozen or so remaining staff would be expected to cater for existing...
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Natfhe chief suspended
LECTURERS' union Natfhe this week suspended its general secretary John Akker pending a disciplinary hearing into claims of incompetence. Mr Akker was suspended from his Pounds 58,000 a-year job on...
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Cash by results funding on table
A radical new way of funding higher education which would do away with the distinction between part-time and full-time students is being considered by Sir Ron Dearing and the new Government. It could...
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Get a PhD, get a suit, get a job, have a fling
(Photograph) - Get a PhD, get a suit, get a job, have a fling. People who have degrees are more likely to have affairs. People with PhDs have more clout in the job market than they know. Students...
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HM paves the way for loan reform
A reform of the student loans system was promised this week as education led the list of legislation in the coming Parliamentary session unveiled in the Queen's Speech. Two education bills were...
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Proof that greens are good for you
SCIENTISTS trying to isolate the gene which gives Brussels sprouts and other greens their cancer-preventing characteristics are on the verge of enjoying the sweet taste of biotechnological success....
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New styles for changing womb
FASHION designer Helen Storey and her sister Kate, a developmental biologist based at Oxford University, have been granted Pounds 25,000 to produce clothes which express key events in the development...
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Row ends MBA scheme hope
PLANS for a universal assessment and accreditation scheme to check standards in the burgeoning market for MBA qualifications have collapsed after 18 months of development, following a row between the...
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National credit is on its way
A new funding system based on learning credits could break down distinctions between full-time and part-time students The building blocks for a nationwide higher education credit system will be in...
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Cold sweat
(Photograph) - Cold sweat: 700 students at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, take their final exams in the university's arena, normally an ice rink.
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Cuts put jobs in danger
HUNDREDS of jobs at South Africa's universities and technikons are in jeopardy following state funding cuts. Thousands of posts could be frozen and small "unprofitable" departments and units face...
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Quarter of colleges 'at risk'
NEARLY a quarter of London's further education colleges are on the funding council's financially "at risk" list. Most of the 12 colleges, many covering the capital's poorest areas, are working to...
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Lack of flexibility criticised
THE UNIVERSITY system throughout Europe retains an "unattractive degree of inflexibility", according to a new survey from the European Science and Technology Assembly, which reports to the European...
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Scots sell themselves to the world
SCOTLAND's higher education institutions have launched a Pounds 3-million company to sell their distance learning expertise worldwide. Scottish Knowledge plc will not be linked to one university, but...
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Crackdown on university colleges expected
A CRACKDOWN on abuse of the title University College is likely to be urged by the Dearing inquiry's report. According to the Universities and Colleges Admission Service, three institutions have been...