Summer bids
Eleven bids from higher education institutions to run a summer teaching semester were made by the closing date last Friday. A decision on which go ahead will be made at the Higher Education Funding...
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CBI pre-emptive move on training
The Confederation of British Industry is backing a training league table for employers. The table would set out the record of individual businesses on training investment, as a way of stopping the...
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Young medics 'must know the law'
Medical students should not be able to qualify without a clear understanding of their legal obligations, according to Sandy Macara, chairman of the British Medical Association council. Dr Macara,...
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Bank urges private growth for HE
Bold action is needed to reform overspecialised vocational, technical and higher education in Eastern Europe, according to the World Bank in its first overall review of education since 1980....
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Good company
Small businesses in Yorkshire and Humberside are to benefit from Pounds 2 million awarded to Leeds Metropolitan University for its Company Associates Partnership Scheme. The university said it was on...
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Civil changes
The civil service, especially its higher echelons, has traditionally been dominated by Oxbridge. But new figures from the Cambridge University careers service show that last year just 1.6 per cent of...
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Euro funnel
The Department of Trade and Industry is supplying Pounds 2.5 million for institutions that want to do feasibility studies and research projects starting in the next three years with European partners...
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Applied patterns
Applications for higher education are up 1.5 per cent over this time last year, although this increase is accounted for mainly by the growth in overseas students from outside the European Union,...
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Fashion's avengers
(Photograph) - Fashion's avengers: Students from the consumer services management degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University model clothes designed by Clare McTurk (second from right) in the...
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Duplication narrows choice for vocational students, say Lib Dems
Thousands of students are facing a limited choice of vocational A levels because most colleges and sixth forms offer the same range of courses, according to a Liberal Democrat survey of approved...
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Pick'n' mix as examiners merge
A proposed merger of two examination boards is set to close the gulf between academic and vocational qualifications. The University of London Examinations and Assessment Council and the Business and...
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Students split over finance
The split among student unions on reform of student financial support widened this week as a group of "moderate" unions spoke of setting up their own consortium to push for reform. Alison Griffin,...
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Focus on the future
(Photograph) - Focus on the future: Christina Townsend, chief executive of the Business and Technology Education Council looks approvingly at the document proposing a merger with the University of...
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A dishonest digger
Schliemann of Troy
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A humane wizard among hobgoblins
Emerson's Antislavery Writings - Emerson