Napier unveils direct-debit fee plan
Napier University is planning to give new entrants the option of paying their tuition fees by direct debit in up to ten monthly instalments. It is also planning a reward system for prompt payment by...
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Nursery workers win parity with technicians
TWO nursery workers have won a six-year battle for equal pay against Oxford Brookes University. Rose Chalmers, a former deputy nursery manager, claimed she should have received the same as a senior...
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Familiar faces elected to council
Five members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals have been elected to its council. Ken Edwards, vice-chancellor of Leicester University, Peter Knight, vice-chancellor of the...
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Scots funding body appoints new faces
THE Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has appointed four new members: Alice Brown, professor of politics at Edinburgh University; Georgina Follett, head of the design school at Dundee; Tom...
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Extra Pounds 5.5m to be shared by 252 colleges
The government has announced an extra Pounds 5.5 million for further education. The funds have been spread thinly, between 252 colleges, who will use the grants to run summer schools for basic skills...
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Melville advocates single credit transfer system
A single system for the accumulation and transfer of students' learning credit should encompass both further and higher education, David Melville, chief executive of the Further Education Funding...
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Unions lash out at wage by age split
STUDENTS and low-paid staff in universities and colleges have united in condemning plans to offer differing minimum wages for people of different ages. News last week that the Low Pay Commission...
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Exeter rethinks Cornish site
EXETER University has been forced to drop plans for a new university campus in Treireife, Cornwall and work with other institutions to expand higher education in the region, writes Harriet Swain. A...
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Heritage squat
(Photograph) - Eco-Warriors have occupied an old railway building owned by Oxford University as part of the site for its planned business school. Part of the land is also earmarked for a road. A...
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Cash for ailing campuses
De Montfort, Leeds Metropolitan and Thames Valley universities and the London Institute and London School of Economics are the big winners of a competition for extra cash for capital projects. Each...
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Voyage of discovery
Rumours abound at the University of the West of England that UWE's campus neighbour, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is planning a cost-cutting move to Gloucester - new home of the...
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Professor Craven
Professor Craven has asked us to point out that, contrary to an earlier report in The THES, Mr Merritt resigned before the Lever report was commissioned.
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Payoff for do-gooders
As Volunteers Week gets under way, Alison Utley looks at the personal benefits of helping others. PREPARING an attention-grabbing CV is often the most difficult obstacle facing students applying for...
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Entente gets more cordiale
EUROPE A STUDENT exchange scheme between France and Britain that attracted a huge number of French applicants but only a handful of British last year is to be revived this month on the back of a...
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Oxford shadows
While Labour deploys 1960s radicals gone straight - Tessa Blackstone and Kim Howells - on the government benches, the Conservatives are hitting back with the Oxford generation of a decade later. The...