'Modern' universities flex v-c muscle
NEW universities have launched a pressure group inside the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals to ensure their voices are heard in the post-Dearing era. The Coalition of Modern Universities...
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Loan debts Bill gets second reading
The Education (Student Loans) Bill, to sell off student loan debt, received its second reading by 267 votes to three in the House of Commons week. The main opposition parties abstained on the vote,...
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Northern Ireland colleges incorporated
Regulations to give direct responsibility for Northern Ireland's 17 colleges of further education to the Department of Education in Northern Ireland (DENI) and incorporate the colleges under their...
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Scotland and Wales gain education powers
Further and higher education will be devolved to a Scottish parliament and a Welsh assembly under proposals unveiled by Government this week. The two devolution white papers pave the way for...
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MP calls for broader governor monitoring
Labour MP Alan Whitehead, formerly a professor at the Southampton Institute for Higher Education, said Lord Nolan had failed to distinguish between the old and new sectors in giving university...
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Professor cleared of sex charges
John Cottingham, professor of philosophy at Reading University, is expected to face a civil action after he was acquitted this week of indecently assaulting two female students. The women alleged he...
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Smith launches people's lottery
National Lottery cash will be channelled into education and science, culture secretary Chris Smith said this week. Launching the white paper, The People's Lottery, he said a New Opportunities Fund...
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Greenwich gaze focuses on naval college deal
GREENWICH University believes it may have resolved problems connected with its bid to move into the Royal Naval College. Greenwich has submitted a revised business plan to the future proprietor, the...
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US faces cash crisis by 2015
AN EDUCATION doomsday clock is ticking away in the United States, with the prospect of a yawning funding gap and millions of students turned away, a panel of top educators and corporate chiefs has...
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Fury over computers
THE NATIONAL Union of Students welcomed the idea of a computer for every student, but said it was "exasperated and outraged" that students should have to pay for them. "Every student should have...
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Thirsty work
What I sent in as a description of Seneca (Exam howlers, THES, July 18) was not "hypochondriac" millionaire but "hydrochondriac". Perhaps you should award yourselves a prize - a bottle of water?...
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Koalas worth Aus$1.1billion each year to Australian economy
(Photograph) - Here's looking at you, kids: koalas are worth Aus$1.1 billion (Pounds 490 million) each year to the Australian economy and generate about 9,000 jobs, research reveals. Clive Hamilton...
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Charge of campus sexism irks v-cs in Oz
AUSTRALIAN universities are under fire for discriminating against women and minority groups. The president of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board, Chris Puplick, said that universities and...
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Poor relations fight for status of adult learning
ADULT education is seen as the poor relation of higher education in both industrialised and developing countries despite its importance to economic growth, delegates to the fifth Unesco conference on...
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Woman controls French research
FOR THE first time in the history of France's public research institutes, a woman has been appointed to the top job. Particle physicist Catherine Brechignac has been appointed by the new leftwing...