Pressing question
The nation's journalists are clearly in a ferment over Edinburgh University's support for the city's international science festival, and the role it sees for itself in supporting the local and...
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Labour pains
Deep in the bowels of Walworth Road the details of an education framework for the next century are being hotly debated. Key to Labour thinking is a unified qualification system for all students aged...
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Meeting of minds off MPs' agenda
What important function is performed irregularly by David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary; hardly at all by Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman; and only on special...
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Lakeland to be wired for learning
(Photograph) - An electronic library spanning hundreds of miles could soon allow some of Britain's most cut-off communities to key into higher education, according to Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours...
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Bar warns of market misery
The Bar Council began talks on opening up training for would-be barristers this week with a warning that a limit might be set on the market. Members of the council agreed last year to end the Bar...
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Ideas can 'work both ways' for dynamic Commonwealth
Higher education must now capitalise on the strengths of both developed and developing institutions, according to Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary general of the Commonwealth. Chief Anyaoku, speaking...
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Foresight calls for Millennium project
The education and employment departments should join forces with the research councils to launch a major initiative aimed at bringing the information technology revolution to bear on all schools,...
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Guildhall report
Last week's account of the Jones report on morale at London Guildhall University should have stated that Mr Jones was formerly assistant provost of the institution and had been a Department For...
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Bow wow
The Scottish centre for Japanese studies at Stirling University is launching an intensive course in language and cultural training for individuals and companies to coincide with the Department of...
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Green pounds
British Telecom is organising BT Environment Awards, with a "student impact" category which has ten prizes of Pounds 500. Students are encouraged to run projects against environmental damage, such as...
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Strike over
Striking lecturers at Southwark College suspended their action last Friday, after 14 days on the picket line, when a more flexible approach to finding up to 35 redundancies was agreed with management...
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Take your partners
The university-industry postgraduate partnership training scheme is to be expanded by about 50 places, the Department of Trade and Industry announced this week. The scheme, launched in 1992, features...
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Abertay lecturers switch unions
Members of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union at the University of Abertay Dundee have joined the Association of University Teachers after three months of debate. The AUT has now set up a...
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Bungle of County Hall sale
The Government's embarrassment over the sale of County Hall to a Japanese property group which may now not develop it was inflicted by their acceptance of narrow commercial criteria for the sale, a...
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Lecturers for hire move in on universities
The agency preparing a national database of self-employed college lecturers for hire is planning to move into higher education. Education Lecturing Services aims to register up to 400,000 lecturers...