Wider access threat to autonomy
This might be the last year that universities have true autonomy over their entrance requirements. Twin moves to broaden the range of qualifications leading to university entrance, and to encourage...
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Long-term magic is urged for Cinderella
The political profile of further education has traditionally matched its popular designation as the "Cinderella sector". But that looks likely to change at this year's Labour party conference to be...
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FEFC in cash plea on jobless scheme
FURTHER education has told the Government that it must "piggyback" its new welfare-to-work programme on existing college and sector funding structures or risk wasting public money on bureaucracy. The...
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...as Wales offers vocational and traditional mix
Welsh schools and colleges may soon be offering a single overarching 16-19 certificate linking vocational and traditional education courses, writes Huw Richards. This week's Welsh Office white paper...
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'Lab school' linkup to boost English teaching standards...
Universities will be urged to adopt the best schoolteachers as associate professors and fellows, and to work with them in "laboratory schools" in a bid to raise school standards, writes Phil Baty....
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Catholics face threats
CATHOLIC students have been targeted in a "hate" campaign as tensions rise in Northern Ireland. A number of Queen's University undergraduates and student nurses are seeking to move after leaflets...
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Continental divide to end
A NEW blow has been struck in the battle of minds between continental and analytical philosophers with the founding of the first Society for European Philosophy. More than 100 people met at Warwick...
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Against the odds
(Photograph) - AGAINST THE ODDS: A Bradford University student who had a brush with death is this week celebrating the degree she thought she would never get. Linguist Amanda Wilson contracted...
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Beijing shares medical secrets
Britain may have lost Hong Kong to China, but a new degree of partnership is developing between the nations. Middlesex University has started interviewing for its new five-year degree in traditional...
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Sage wisdom
For centuries European folklore has said that sage improves the memory. Now clinical trials are to get under way to test this and to find out if sage could be used in the treatment of illnesses such...
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Hairy jobs for the bold
As the world gets smaller and science continues to push back the frontiers, scientists find themselves working in ever greater extremes. As researchers in Montserrat have discovered, being in the...
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Treatment for ageing is possible
DRUGS to slow down the ageing process could be available within 20 years, according to University of Sunderland researchers. Members of the university's molecular gerontology team believe they are on...
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Grim Reaper calls earlier on poor homes
FACT: The risk of premature death increases significantly for people living in a rented home without a car. Reason: Unknown. Assumptions that car and home ownership are merely markers of middle-class...
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Men bury grief for the sake of their partner
FEW MEN feel able to grieve properly following a miscarriage, scientists at Teesside University have found in one of the first studies of the subject. John Puddifoot and Martin Johnson, who...
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Trees tackle warming
SUSSEX University scientists are putting trees to the ultimate test in a bid to discover whether they can offer a solution to global warming. Working with six other institutions from Europe, the...