Natfhe knocks pay by results
Lecturers have warned that performance-related pay has not worked in colleges and universities and will not help the "crisis" in teacher supply. As teaching unions attacked PRP at their annual...
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Scots turn on tuition fees
Scotland's three opposition parties have focused on the abolition of tuition fees for students north of the border as they launched their manifestoes for the Scottish Parliament this week. The...
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Knowledge pool goes online
An on-line depository holding the sum of knowledge gained through the government's Technology Foresight project is to be launched next week. The Department of Trade and Industry says the Foresight...
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Joint statement confirms commitment to environment
The green agenda in higher education was this week given a new boost with university vice-chancellors, principals and students backing a wide-ranging statement of environmental intent. The joint...
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Ulster to unify FE &
Northern Ireland education minister John McFall is to consult on a key proposal from the Dearing committee for a tertiary funding council for the province. Northern Ireland is anomalous within the...
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Ulster University's pro chancellor Robert Hanna
* Ulster University's pro chancellor Robert Hanna said Northern Ireland, its economy and young people are at a distinct disadvantage compared with those in Great Britain. The province had a serious...
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Press primed for Lockerbie
Glasgow University has given a new spin to adult education with a seminar for journalists on the forthcoming Lockerbie trial. The two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 are to...
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SHEFC adds cash to dismantle reactor
Three Scottish universities have won their fight for help to decommission a nuclear reactor set up through a government initiative. The Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre was opened in...
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No direction leads to university
Young people do not apply to university to improve their job prospects or earnings potential, according to Cardiff University researcher Sara Williams. In Ms Williams's survey, an overwhelming...
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Australia finds flexible solution to IT drought
MELBOURNE Australia's technological universities are beginning to broaden university courses in information technology as a means of helping overcome a desperate shortage of IT professionals. A...
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Morning America
UKhigher education gained a faster internet connection to North America at 8.30 am on Tuesday, when a new 155 megabit per second link between JANET and Teleglobe went into service. A second 155 mbps...
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Ageism: employers lose out
Bright young things need only apply B&Q plc At least 50 of this year's 400 applicants to DIY chain B&Q's fast-track store manager scheme would never have been considered before. For all of...
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Manchester fails Israel audit
Quality watchdogs have called on Manchester University to review "insufficient" safeguards on the standard of courses run with a college in Israel. In early 1998, auditors visited the Israeli Centre...
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Climate research broadens its base
Climate research is to get at least Pounds 1 million a year over the next five years from the natural environment and engineering and physical sciences research councils. University bids to house an...
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V-cs reject beefed-up copyright
Vice-chancellors have given the thumbs down to the Association of University Teachers' proposals for a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, their employers and...