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THE CREATION of an arts and humanities research council, a Pounds 500-million loan scheme for buying laboratory equipment and an extra Pounds 110 million for research councils are among Dearing's...
THE CREATION of an arts and humanities research council, a Pounds 500-million loan scheme for buying laboratory equipment and an extra Pounds 110 million for research councils are among Dearing's...
Industry support for setting up a Pounds 500-million loan scheme for supporting top university laboratories is less than enthusiastic. Paul Leonard of the Chemical Industries Association says its...
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers is disappointed by Dearing's failure to recommend a pay review body, claiming it reveals a contradiction in his plans for academic and related staff. AUT...
Dearing says that staffing issues are central to higher education's success over the next 20 years. "An effective, fairly remunerated, professional and well-motivated workforce lies at the heart of...
NORTHERN Ireland's anomalous position within the United Kingdom of having only an advisory higher education body, and a dramatic undersupply of university places, has been boldy tackled by Dearing's...
DEARING'S Scottish committee, chaired by industrialist Sir Ron Garrick, stresses the distinctiveness of Scottish higher education while firmly retaining it within the United Kingdom system. It has...
JOHN Andrews, chief executive of the Welsh Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, welcomed the endorsement of two sectoral funding councils sharing a chief executive and staff and Dearing's...
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson has pledged careful consideration of how tuition fees will apply to the four-year Scottish honours degree, and said he strongly endorsed Sir Ron Garrick's...
THE DISTINCTIVE pattern of relationships built between the further and higher education sectors in Wales has been strongly endorsed in a largely descriptive section of the Dearing report. It firmly...
HIGHER educationists in Northern Ireland havewelcomed proposals for the province. Sir Trevor Smith, Ulster University vice chancellor, praised the recommendation to end the cap on student numbers....
BETTER money management and a governors' code of practice will be needed to keep institutions running smoothly, says the report. The committee recognises that higher education has been through a...
FURTHER education has been offered the chance to expand as Dearing recommends that higher education concentrate on funding sub-degree qualifications in colleges. Dearing has recommended a potentially...
Italian Switzerland has had its own university since last October in Lugano, the canton's principal city, after years of seeing itself as being too poor and sparsely populated to warrant one. The...
Someone asked if it worried me that our report would inevitably be compared with Robbins. The answer was a simple "no". It was enough of a job to bring this report home to the time deadline without...
Habits of opposition die hard: spin doctoring, preemptive briefing and anxiety about alienating substantial groups of voters have been much in evidence in the Government's handling of the Dearing...