Most students ignorant of costs
Students are ill-informed about the costs of higher education, a national survey has found. Most think costs arising from taking an undergraduate course range from Pounds 2,000-Pounds 5,000 a year,...
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PAC attacks Welsh failures
Parliament's spending watchdog has expressed anger over persistent "failures of accountability" in further and higher education. This week in a stormy evidence session on financial collapse at Gwent...
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DTI to scrutinise all spending
Universities will have to account for the use they make of every penny of public and private funds from next year as part of a Treasury-driven exercise. Academics will be forced to reveal how much...
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Scots fee probe:no constraints
There will be "no constraints" on Scotland's prospective committee of inquiry into student funding, Henry McLeish, minister for enterprise and lifelong learning has pledged. But he warned that the...
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UCAS decides on FEeligibility
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service will discuss whether further education colleges providing higher education courses should be eligible for UCAS membership at a board meeting today....
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New prize for African writers
A new $15,000 (Pounds 9,433) writing prize, focusing on the short story and open to writers from anywhere on the African continent, was launched this week. The Caine Prize will be awarded for the...
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Pounds 11m business fundup for grabs
The government launched its Pounds 54 million Reach Out initiative this week in a bid to foster better links between universities and industry and improve graduate employment opportunities....
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MPs challenge Ofsted inspections
MPs want to ease the inspection burden for higher education institutions running teacher training courses. Members of the education and employment select committee called for "light touch" inspection...
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Oil anglicises islanders
People living in one of Russia's most remote and poorest regions are getting a dose of English education as a prelude to oil exploration by BP-Amoco. A Russian-British centre opened last month in...
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Easier entry for foreigners
Fee-paying international students are the focus of a government initiative launched this week. A strategy to be launched by Baroness Blackstone at the London School of Economics today promises to...
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Universities 'need race targets'
British universities should set targets for achieving racial equality in terms of academic recruitment and promotion, according to a new report. Tariq Modood and Steve Fenton, of Bristol University,...
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Flower power
Before you start your smug annual competition for student howlers, please remember "...tinkering with geranium alloys...(led) to the invention of the transistor" ("The lords of the flies", THES, June...
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Burdened medicine in crisis
Universities have been warned to limit the working hours of clinical academics. The warning came at this week's meeting of the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee. The...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT www.dfid.gov.uk Economic and...
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Staff costs push up HE bill
Expenditure by higher education institutions increased by Pounds 434 million to Pounds 11.3 billion last year with staff costs accounting for Pounds 164 million of the rise, according to latest...