Deathknell sounds for full state grants
The Association of University Teachers has abandoned its historic policy of support for a return to full state-funded grants for all students. But AUT delegates at last week's annual conference said...
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Model figure
Stafford College student Andrew MacCallum puts the finishing touches to his life-sized model of the first Earl of Stafford.16 April 2009: update by Andrew MacCallum"Since my college days in Stafford...
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Centenary dish
Student Kathleen Kaminski, under the watchful eye of Frederick's restaurant's head chef Andy Jeffs, sees how second chef Garritt Byrne puts the finishing touches to starters for a meal celebrating...
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Loan strangers reply
Almost seven out of ten Scots believe student loans make it less likely that young people will go on to higher education, according to a poll commissioned by the Educational Institute of Scotland....
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Union call for royal college
In a thinly veiled attack on inter-union rivalry, the general secretary of the Association of University Teachers has called for the creation of a royal college to represent education professionals....
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Collaboration problems
Natfhe has claimed that an agreement between the AUT and the Association of University and College Lecturers will damage moves towards collaboration. The AUCL, which has nearly 3,000 members in the...
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Soton college action rocks the boat
Southampton Institute director David Leyland is suing a local newspaper for libel after two weeks of bad publicity surrounding the institute's overseas franchise operation and restructuring programme...
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LSE acts to stem forecast Pounds 3m loss
Finance chiefs at the London School of Economics are reviewing corporate plans after a projected Pounds 3 million slide into the red. Governors attending an informal court meeting on Monday heard the...
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Satellites track border clashes
The violent borders between the earth's and the sun's magnetic fields are full of mysteries that could be solved by a fleet of identical spacecraft to be launched next Thursday. The Cluster...
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Postgrad funding plans under fire
Martin Harris, vice chancellor of Manchester University, has moved to quell the anger of new university and college heads over funding proposals in his review of postgraduate education. Vice...
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Brick dropping two
One institution sure to have made an impression on Melville is Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham, whose principal, Tony Colton, chaired the APC dinner at which Melville spoke. Sadly for its...
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Film set
(Photograph) - Duncan Petrie, director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, with some of its 60,000 pieces of cinema memorabilia. The collection was donated to...
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Funding allocations to colleges 1996/97
A listing of 1996/7 funding allocations to UK further education colleges, arranged in alphabetical order, appeared in The ̽»¨ÊÓƵ Supplement today. It is not available on the database.
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Cambridge's dreaming aspirers attack outdated promotions system
Cambridge University dons are up in arms over the university's outdated professorial promotions system, condemning it as "humiliating", riven by "favouritism" and tarnished by "skulduggery". Senior...
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Dogged breed
Any vice chancellors tempted to gamble their way out of financial problems should heed the findings of research at Southampton University, which shows why "going to the dogs" is such a bad idea....