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* 18 per cent of engineering/technology students are from overseas. * 17.7 per cent of law students are from overseas. * The humanities, education and the physical sciences drew less than 5 per cent...
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Equity opens door to student members
EQUITY, the actors' union, is to offer membership to drama students for the first time. Anyone enrolling for a year or more on any full-time course connected to drama will be eligible for special...
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Dearing adviser becomes KPMG consultant
Coopers and Lybrand's dominance of the higher education consulting field is to be challenged. Management consultants KPMG have recruited Nigel Brown, former deputy provost of London Guildhall...
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Bangor launches Pounds 1,000 scholarships
The University of Wales, Bangor, is to introduce Pounds 1,000 scholarships next year at the same time as the government's new tuition fee payment scheme comes into operation. But the timing is...
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Wellcome pledge to Daresbury Laboratories
The Wellcome Trust had pledged Pounds 10 million towards a new Pounds 100 million X-ray instrument for Daresbury Laboratories in Cheshire. The machine, called Diamond, is likely to replace Daresbury'...
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Labour fears on part-timers
The Government will fail in its aim of creating a learning society unless it goes well beyond the Dearing recommendations on part-timers, the secretary of the Labour backbench education and...
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Something in the air
Swindon, Ipswich, London Docklands, Highlands and Islands, the Lake District ... read it and weep. See The THES on October 10 for details of Britain's newest university, with unimagined thrills and...
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Post A-level admission on the way
VICE CHANCELLORS have agreed to introduce a post-A levels admissions system if administrative problems can be solved. Representatives from universities, colleges, schools and the admissions service...
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Blunkett aims for 35% participation
LABOUR, which came to office last May committed to expanding higher education, has given the clearest indication yet of its first-term ambition. David Blunkett, secretary of state for education and...
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Sacked principal 'abused power'
Stan Mason, former principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has been fired for gross misconduct following an inquiry into staffing practices. Professor Mason had been seeking an early retirement...
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Internet Expansion
This week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, is expanding to provide a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 will be available to all...
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Benefits plea for learning
AN assembly meeting of the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education heard calls for a reform of the benefits system to encourage lifelong learning, writes Alison Utley. Sue Cara,...
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Ex-champion boxer cleared of fraud charge
A FORMER champion boxer has been cleared of a charge of defrauding the university grants system by lying about his academic past. Terry Marsh, 39, a former IBF world light-welterweight boxing...
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Swindon University plans to go ahead
The death of Swindon College principal Clive Brain in the Southall rail disaster last week will not disrupt plans for a new University of Swindon and Wiltshire, his colleagues said this week. Mr...
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Ministry hears Dearing student complaints
The Department for Education and Employment met students and representatives from universities, colleges and the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week to discuss Sir Ron Dearing's...