Debt sale was avoidable
SWIFT changes to Government accounting rules could have stopped the sale of the student debt, which can be "ill afforded", finance and education experts said this week. The Government is soon to...
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GP dearth to follow grant death
The scrapping of maintenance grants for students may result in a dearth of GPs and clinical academics, a leading doctor has warned, writes Julia Hinde. Steve Tomlinson, executive secretary of the...
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Royal Institute of British Architects
* The Royal Institute of British Architects has voiced fears that the Government's proposals for fees will put off people from poorer backgrounds from studying architecture. RIBA director Chris...
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Student-elected rectors of Scotland's four ancient universities
* The student-elected rectors of Scotland's four ancient universities are to urge Scottish education minister Brian Wilson to reject proposals stripping them of their automatic right to chair the...
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Loans risk to pure science
Britain's pure science base could be eroded if a move from grants to loans leads students to choose courses more directly related to employment, a member of the Dearing inquiry committee said this...
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John Arbuthnott
* John Arbuthnott, principal of Strathclyde University and a leading member of the Dearing committee, has attacked the Government's funding proposals as "more socially regressive" than Dearing's...
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Power played out
Rather than enjoying a summer of fun or job applications, a group of engineering graduates at Nottingham Trent University are embroiled in a row over their results, which they claim are invalid....
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Don't bank on it
The world of finance has shown its harshest face to Richard Saville of the University of St Andrews, author of the 300th anniversary history of the Bank of Scotland. When he signed up to write it,...
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Golden oldies
Saville's father John - also a historian, this time at Hull - is the subject of the Antithesis summer competition. Now 81, he was entered for the research assessment exercise at the age of 80. (Both...
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Hard pressed
The pressures to find a summer job appear to be affecting more than students these days. At last week's Scottish press conference on the Dearing report, Scottish committee chief Sir Ron Garrick...
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CVCP upstaged
Dearing Day, last Wednesday, and the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals was determined to put on a damned good show. The vice squad's motorcade pulled up at the Intercontinental Hotel where...
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Toe in the door
Alumnus to be proud of number 118 is a beacon of hope to unemployed ex-MPs. David Mellor, ex-minister and former MP for Putney, is probably too upset by the death of Sir James Goldsmith to gloat. But...
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Monster heritage
(Photograph) - Monster heritage: a wooden replica of a stegosaurus, designed by Peter Long, seen above left with a colleague from Cambridge University's department of engineering, and built by local...
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How crickets don't get stumped in the night
A ROBOTIC cricket with ears in its legs has been built by scientists who hope it will help them understand how its real-life equivalent finds a perfect partner. Nottingham University psychologist...
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Student numbers in FE grow by 16%
THE NUMBER of full-time further education student numbers grew by a sixth and part-timers by nearly a third in one year, an official tally has revealed. The figures, from the Further Education...