Trouble in Xanadu
Dome minister Peter Mandelson has reason to look worried. Rumours are flooding the architectural world that most or all of the "zones" planned for his Pleasure Dome are over budget. Could stress...
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Sleazebuster
Alumnus to be proud of no 178 is, in the usage of the Upper House, the noble and learned Lord Neill, former vice-chancellor of Oxford University and chairman of the committee on standards in public...
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CVCP backs dual support
University vice-chancellors are being urged to write to ministers to stress the importance of maintaining the dual support system for funding university research. Martin Harris, chairman of the...
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Grants called for
National minimum grants for further education students to meet the costs of fees, travel and childcare have been called for in a government-commissioned report. The "entitlements" should apply to all...
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Strategy under attack
THE government's higher education strategy has been attacked for encouraging undergraduate vocationalism at the expense of the real graduate qualities valued by industry. In this month's edition of...
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Push for publishing
Heads of publishing departments in higher education have formed a group to represent departments to employers and to act as a forum for debate. The United Kingdom Association of Publishing Educators...
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Summer savings time
PEOPLE may begin saving to learn this summer as the government launches test runs of its showpiece individual learning accounts scheme. Twelve development projects in England, Scotland and Wales will...
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Officers come to King's
KING'S College London has won a Pounds 20 million contract to educate the next generation of British armed forces officers. Education at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, which will merge...
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Bids invited
UNIVERSITIES and colleges have been invited to bid for shares of Pounds 300,000 earmarked for improving graduate employability. Education minister Baroness Blackstone announced funding for a further...
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Dearing plea to ease cash pressure
Lord Dearing has warned that the government must ease funding pressure on higher education to allow time to develop ideas on how to maintain quality while reducing costs. Giving the Alexander Stone...
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Rethink on quality revealed
THE QUALITY Assurance Agency has given its plans for checking standards in higher education a second overhaul. A confidential internal paper leaked to The THES reveals how the agency is treading a...
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High kicks
(Photograph) - BOAC ground staff admire the legs of 1953 Miss World contestants sitting on an aircraft wing. The picture is from an online archive of 52,000 images collated from the Hulton Getty...
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What universities think
The Quality Assurance Agency insists that universities responded positively to its original consultation paper. Tony Tysome trawled responses and found little evidence of this. Oxford said the QAA...
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Hitches of getting hitched
To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Governors at Imperial College, London, are meeting today to discuss merging with Wye College, also part of the...
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Leeds awaits Blunkett's decision on its big double wedding
Hitches of getting hitched. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Leeds has two big mergers in the pipeline, both awaiting the final approval of secretary...