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* 78.5 per cent of the 1.72 million students in the UK are undergraduates * Overseas students in the UK number 196,346, comprising 11.4 per cent of the total * 43.5 per cent of UK first-year, full-...
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Sticking point
One of the things that inspired the new Institute of Learning and Teaching was a very sticky statistic. Dearing committee members found the higher education sector spent less than 1 per cent of its...
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FILTHE joke
The new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is affectionately known as "quacker, but what of Sir Ron's proposed Institute for Learning and Teaching in higher education? Would-be fellows...
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Ministers pull plug on college fraud unit
Higher education's only national organisation fighting admissions fraud is facing the withdrawal of "essential" financial support from the Department for Education and Employment. The Universities...
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Pounds 300m for good measure
The National Physical Laboratory, the nation's guarantor of measurements, looks set to be rebuilt with the help of a Pounds 300 million Private Finance Initiative scheme. Founded in 1900, NPL ensures...
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Cern wins US jackpot
Hundreds of millions of dollars for the world's largest particle-smashing experiment is set to pour into Europe from the United States after months of uncertainty. According to Cern in Geneva, where...
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Fifth framework research programme
The European Commission has proposed boosting its forthcoming fifth framework research programme with a budget of Ecu 16.3 billion (Pounds 10.7 billion), writes Olga Wojtas. The proposed budget for...
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Fees threaten tough era
RUTHLESS management practices from the private sector could come into higher education with the Goverment's decision to charge students fees. Education lawyers are warning institutions to crack down...
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Poorer students may be left in cold
A MEMBER of the Dearing committee has called on the Government to back its tuition fees plan with figures amid claims that the proposal may hold no benefits for poorer students. Diana Laurillard, a...
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Paper chase
(Photograph) - Paper chase: Edinburgh University has acquired the papers of its former student Norman MacCaig, one of the greatest Scottish poets of the 20th century, with the help of Pounds 67,800...
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Adviser warns of sub-degree peril
SUB-DEGREE qualifications could come under threat from Government plans to charge students up-front tuition fees, a leading adviser to the National Committee of Inquiry has warned, writes Harriet...
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Commons inquiries home in on big issues
THE PARLIAMENTARY education and employment committee will carry out an inquiry into issues arising from the Dearing review of higher education, including tuition fees, in the autumn. It is due to...
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Luton appoints finance director
THE UNIVERSITY of Luton has appointed a new finance director, a year after discovering a surprise Pounds 1 million hole in its budget. Philip Harding, director of finance and information at the...
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British Council rubbishes Indian court order
THE BRITISH Council has dismissed a court order to restrict British institutions' work in India as "paranoid" and "misinformed". The Madras High Court has asked Leeds University, Durham University...
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Lawyers should train for life, says advisory team
ALL LAWYERS should be forced to have formal training throughout their careers, according to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct. It wants the Law Society and the...