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Plans to build a $400 million heavy-crude oil pipeline through a sensitive area of virgin forest in Ecuador have alerted conservationists to a potential ecological disaster. Analysts say the pipeline...
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Norway's new prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has appointed Trond Giske minister of research, education and the church. Mr Giske has represented the Social Democrats in parliament since 1997.
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UK lags in green research
The United Kingdom has the lowest expenditure per capita on environmental research and development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, MPs were told this week....
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Students learn a bit of 'can do'
Pipe dreams? Careers advisers have been struggling to make part-time work relevant to students' future vocations Tony Tysome What is the connection between stacking shelves in a supermarket and...
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Heavens saved from bad waves
The imminent destruction of the 66 Iridium satellites - possibly the most expensive firework display in history - will be watched with particular glee by radio astronomers. The global telephone...
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Database boob may delay loan payments
The Student Loans Company is set to repeat last year's fiasco in which a botched database threatened to delay loan cheques for thousands of students. Last week, the company was due to issue local...
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Troubleshooter heads for LJMU
Mike Brown already had a reputation as something of a troubleshooter before he agreed this week to step into the breach as the new vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. His 12-year...
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Gaelic gets a shot in the arm
There are hopes of a boost for Gaelic in Scottish colleges and universities following the United Kingdom's decision to back Council of Europe protection for minority languages. The Westminster...
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Basildon slated by FEFC
College funding chiefs have launched an investigation into Basildon College, after "an extremely poor" inspection report and a financial collapse, writes Phil Baty. The Further Education Funding...
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MPs investigate student finance
MPs could influence the government's inquiry into top-up fees and university funding with their own investigation of student finance. The education and employment sub-committee announced this week...
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Concerns over CMI initiative
Cambridge dons fear that their university's academic freedom could be stifled by state intervention and managerialism in the planned joint venture with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The...
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Child-care shortages hit parents in study
Student parents are denied access to higher education because of a serious shortage of child-care places, according to a report by the Daycare Trust. Pointing out that fewer than 40,000 places...
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Ulster invests Pounds 200m in boosting places
The University of Ulster is tackling the increasing demand for student places in Northern Ireland with a Pounds 200 million investment programme. Vice-chancellor Gerry Mc-Kenna said the next move was...
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Failing college 'furious' at QAA
Stockport College is set to become the first higher education provider to have funding withdrawn for teaching quality failure. But it will contest the action in a fight that will challenge the...
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AoC head accuses QAA's Randall of elitimism and bias against college provision
AoC head accuses QAA's Randall of elitism and bias against college provision A college leader has attacked higher education quality chief John Randall for playing politics to protect elitist higher...