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(Photograph) - Chelsea College of Art and Design may move to the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank (above), next to the Tate Gallery, London. The multi-million pound move would enable the...
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MPs vote to retain Scots anomaly
Peers are on a possible collision course with the government after MPs overturned their amendment on fourth-year tuition fees in Scotland. Following a boisterous three-hour debate, MPs voted on two...
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LibDems offer extra cash for poor
UNIVERSITIES should be set recruitment targets for students from under-privileged backgrounds and face penalties if they fail to meet them, say the Liberal Democrats. The proposal comes in a policy...
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Royal Institution gets first female leader
Susan Greenfield will become the first woman to head the Royal Institution when she takes over as director on October 1. Professor Greenfield, who leads a multidisciplinary group on neuro-...
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Busy libraries receive Pounds 20 million in support
The funding councils have launched a Pounds 20 million programme to support heavily used university libraries. The programme is based on proposals made in the 1995 Anderson report into library and...
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More Scots pursue higher education in FE
The proportion of full-time higher education students in Scotland at further education colleges has risen from 9 per cent in 1986-87, about 7,440 students, to 18 per cent in 1996-97, up to 30,000...
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'New dawn' brings Irish business centre
The creation of a new international business centre for Londonderry, based at Ulster's Magee College campus, was announced by Northern Ireland MP and MEP John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic...
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North London colleges form partnership
MIDDLESEX University today launches a Higher Education and Training Partnership with Barnet, Harlow, North East London and Waltham Forest colleges to improve access and build links with business....
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Science student of year wins with SFX project
Manish Jethwa, a computing undergraduate at Oxford University, was named science student of the year this week. His project work on special visual effects has immediate potential in industry and...
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Rise in graduates heading for jobs...
Graduate unemployment has fallen again, according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Of 264,300 students who graduated in 1997, 62 per cent reported their first destination as...
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...but bosses report too few skilled recruits
Employers cannot find suitable graduates to fill their vacancies, according to the annual survey of graduate salaries and vacancies by the Association of Graduate Recruiters. This year 38 per cent of...
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Inspectors knock college management
Inspectors have criticised Ludlow College's management as "less than satisfactory". Among the criticisms by the Further Education Funding Council's inspectorate are: "weak" financial management, "...
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Law students to get multimedia instruction
COURT-ROOM dramas and reconstructions of real events will play a role in future courses run by the College of Law via a CD-Rom. The multimedia package will intersperse lectures with relevant cases...
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Royal colleges rally to defend position
The royal colleges of medicine launched a staunch defence of their position this week. The colleges, which look after the postgraduate training and qualifications of doctors, were under attack for...
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Gene check
(Photograph) - The first royalty payment for British sales of a genetically modified tomato puree has been made to the University of Nottingham. A cheque for a couple of thousand pounds - the...