Summer semester trials
This summer just two institutions, the University of Luton and La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, are running summer semesters. What was once feared as the first step towards a radically...
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Lexicon scotches myth of alligators in the subway
Smokers do not burden the health service, green voters do more damage to the environment than other people, and there are no alligators in the sewers of New York. This, anyway, is what statisticians...
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Resign and let the market reign
In the second of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Robert Skidelsky (left) advises Sir Ron to resign and argues that the Government should continue to starve...
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'Wrong ideas' are wrong
We were disappointed to see the piece by Jennie Bristow from the University of Sussex portrayed as a student view point on the sensitive issue of extremism on campus. Ms Bristow is not a...
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Soton bid to rescue Athens campus
Southampton Institute is gearing up for a costly recruitment drive in a last-ditch attempt to save its loss-making Athens campus. Only a fivefold increase in student numbers will ensure that its...
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Cost row
The Further Education Funding Council has disputed Government estimates of cost differences between schools and colleges. Responding to Department for Education and Employment figures comparing how...
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Southerners travel to study
Britain is a divided country when it comes to educating its students More than half of applicants accepted for higher education from Wales chose to stay in Wales and 91 per cent of those from...
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Welsh-tongued nurses on wane
Welsh-speaking school leavers are choosing not to study at Bangor University school of nursing, a decision which could have serious implications for the future of health care in the Welsh heartland....
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Rectors enjoy honeymoon
Three months into office, relations between Spain's right-wing government and higher education leaders seem to be running smooth despite initial uncertainty about what was in store for universities....
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Percentage changes
Your table (THES, July 26) purported to show that there are no female professors of veterinary science in the United Kingdom. Claire Wathes has been professor of veterinary reproduction at The Royal...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. "How very strange," comments the Bulgarian sitting next to me on the flight to Sofia, bemused that anyone could be interested in the mechanics of university affairs. I have just explained the...
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VAT loss
Universities are likely to suffer from new Value Added Tax rules, says an adviser on the tax. John Kennedy, VAT partner at accountants Deloitte and Touche, predicts that they will lose out under a...
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Synthetic bone booster
A synthetic bone substitute that could be used to repair facial injuries is being developed at the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education. Made...
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Italians raise teacher status
The Italian government has decided that all future schoolteachers will have to have a degree and that secondary school teachers will also require two years of postgraduate training. Elementary school...
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Elite and proud of it
Dear Ron, It is now public knowledge that a number of major universities are considering forming a premier league and preparing themselves for the measures that would have to be taken to bring it...