Drastic fall in numbers
APPLICATIONS to universities for 1998 are down 16 per cent compared to this time last year. This will be the first year in which fees will be charged and maintenance grants will start to be phased...
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Minister's vision
A DECLINE in the proportion of students studying science and engineering at British universities in the future is inevitable according to Tessa Blackstone, minister for higher education, who adds...
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Myth of urban drop-out
Myths about "drop-outs" from council housing estates must be exploded if the government's lifelong learning revolution is to succeed, the Further Education Development Agency has warned. FEDA...
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Oxbridge turns guns on report
Oxford and Cambridge universities lead a chorus of criticism in the latest Dearing submissions CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY SIR Ron Dearing's proposed quality assurance regime could make a "costly,...
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Red tape hitch to fees
The European Commission has warned that too much red tape from fee-charging for higher education in Britain could lead to legal challenges. The office of Mario Monti, the commissioner with...
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Mum sued for student living costs
An Aberdeen University law student this week went to court to force his estranged mother to contribute Pounds 400 a month towards his living costs at university. Patrick Macdonald, 20, went to live...
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Winning algebraic formula
THE Algebra that underlies derivatives trading has won two United States professors the Nobel prize for economics. The $1 million (Pounds 600,000) prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
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Laser light that cools atoms
A method of cooling and trapping atoms using laser light has won this year's Nobel prize in physics for Steven Chu of Stanford University, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the College de France and Ecole...
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Killer protein tracked down
Biochemist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California at San Francisco won this year's Nobel prize for medicine for discovering prions, the infectious proteins thought to destroy the brains of...
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Birkbeck gets a master to replace Blackstone
Tim O'Shea has replaced Tessa Blackstone as master of Birkbeck College. Professor of information technology and pro-vice chancellor at the Open University, he will take over in January. Richard Evans...
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NUS launches anti-drinking drive
An advertising campaign to stop young people drinking too much was launched this week by the National Union of Students and the charity Drinkline. Posters show students in a stupor with the words "...
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Biotechnology chief resigns
Sir Alistair Grant, chairman of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is resigning to take over as governor of the Bank of Scotland. Former chairman of Safeway, Sir Alistair...
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Digital broadcasting centre opens
AN ON-LINE centre for research into digital broadcasting and multimedia opened this week. The Virtual Centre of Excellence unites research at sites countrywide electronically pooling information and...
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Hopes of Pounds 1bn loan windfall
TREASURY officials signalled a potentially historic change to public accounting this week that could make universities a Pounds 1 billion available from student loans. Senior officials from the...
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Southampton plans to set up Costa Campus
SOUTHAMPTON is poised to become the first European university to set up a campus in another member state. It is planning to turn its Barcelona study outlets into an "institution" open to Southampton...