Seven bar two
Manchester Metropolitan and De Montfort Universities have been dropped from a shortlist of institutions bidding to run courses for would-be barristers. The Bar Council's now seven-strong shortlist...
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EU to rule on 'illegal' terms
The transfer of further education colleges from local authority control and the worsening of employment contracts are the subjects of a formal complaint to the European Commission this week....
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Personal savings route to study
Britain must become a nation of money-saving squirrels if it is to crack the nut of university funding, according to the right-wing thinkers of the Social Market Foundation. In a report, Memo to...
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Stirling in racist slur charge
Wondimu Mekonnen has a single aim in life: to win back the Pounds 20,000 which the Ethiopian government paid Stirling University for his PhD course. Mr Mekonnen, a 41-year-old accountancy lecturer at...
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Colleges drag feet on sex code
A Canadian psychology professor charged with sexual assault has been suspended for a year without pay from his university. Richard Freeman, whose alleged crimes of sexual assault and gross indecency...
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Cracked open
The centre for glaciology at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, founded to help understanding of global sea-level rise and climate change, is officially opened today by the Queen.
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Bully and his beef
Higher and further education need to worry about the Government's outbreak of Europhobia. Attempting to bully the governments of member states by fouling up the work of the Commission in Brussels is...
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In a league of their own
I am concerned that you attempted to demonstrate a university league table (THES, May 17) of entry requirements based on the A-level points expected to be asked of students for entry as published in...
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Books and jobs don't mix
More than three quarters of undergraduates at Southampton Institute are working to support themselves through their studies, according to new figures. And 41 per cent are working full-time....
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Lecturer plastered
There's nothing quite like having your own living visual aid on stage with you during a high-powered seminar. Lucky in this respect at a recent Keele University seminar were Peter Jones, professor of...
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Budget gloom raises spectre of study levy
The threat of a levy on new home students is moving steadily back into sight as hopeful bids are submitted for the next public spending round and an increasing number of universities, often...
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Berkeley legacy rests on gene test
Larry Hillblom, multimillionaire founder of the DHL worldwide delivery company, died when his vintage seaplane plunged into the Pacific last May. His simple will left $300,000 each to his two...
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Risk business set to boom
Thinking on risk has come some way since a paper, published by a British government organisation in the 1970s, attempted to show the risks of renewable energy by calculating, for example, how many...
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In a league of their own
When the first Times league table was published, Derby was placed in "south pole" position - supporting the entire sector. Our local press wanted to know, "Why's Derby got the worst university in the...
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Brain gain for Blair
Nexus, the new left of centre policy group, is hoping to create a network of up to 500 academics and others with an interest in policy issues. The group grew out of a seminar held earlier this year...