New campus
Trereife near Penzance is the campus site for a university for Cornwall, Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University, announced on Monday.
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Bolton Institute of Higher Education
Contrary to the information published in the listing of research opportunities on May 17, Bolton Institute of Higher Education is now a self-validating institution awarding its own research degrees.
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Loughborough link
Loughborough University is to be the accrediting partner for the new University College, Peterborough. The link was unveiled last week as plans for UCP, revealed earlier this month in The THES, were...
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Spilled papers
De Montfort University is to launch a full investigation into the security of examinations after an anonymous allegation of a breach. A spokesman could not name the subject or year of papers affected...
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Scotland the brave
Scottish further education stu-dents are being encouraged to become entrepreneurs with the establishment of a centre of excellence in enterprise educa-tion at the Scottish Further Edu-cation Unit in...
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Elections
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE MUSEUMS COUNCIL. John Bernasconi, director of fine art and head of the history department at the University of Hull, has been elected chairman of the Joint Advisory Panel of...
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Kate Mills
(Photograph) - Kate Mills receives her certificate as London and the Southeast's Young Person of the Year from Robin Paul, of Albright and Wilson. She went on to become national 1996 Young Person of...
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Heriot-Watt and Aston graduates set for job success
Finalists from Heriot-Watt and Aston universities think they are the most employable in the country, according to a survey by careers specialists High Fliers Research. Two-thirds of students from...
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Libraries' expansion shelved
Thirty-four university library improvement schemes estimated to cost Pounds 22.5 million have been scrapped because of the Government's capital funding cuts. The list of abandoned projects was the...
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Row over Rennie 'indigestible' texts
An exhibition on the artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh was nearly abandoned after a row between academics in Glasgow and an art journalist. The threat was only lifted following assurances that the...
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Privates on parade
Private institutions believe they can help Sir Ron Dearing recommend a policy which is cost-effective and widens access, Kate Worsley reports. Private higher education has much to contribute to the...
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V-cs oppose quality report
The road to a single quality agency is getting rockier, writes Tony Tysome. Just when vice chancellors and principals thought it was safe to become bored with the politics of quality assurance, the...
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Four win stake in Canada EU link
British universities have won places in four of the first six projects in a pioneering cooperation programme between the European Union and Canada. Aberdeen, Luton, Sheffield and the Robert Gordon...
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New RCA rector seeks lucrative commissions
The new rector of the Royal College of Art is aiming to raise the international profile of the college to make it the international research institute for art and design. He also intends to fight for...
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Dundee nurses an ambition
Dundee University is poised to add unique breadth to nurse education in Scotland next session when nursing and midwifery courses are brought into higher education. The trainee nurses and midwives...