Privates on parade
Private institutions believe they can help Sir Ron Dearing recommend a policy which is cost-effective and widens access, Kate Worsley reports. Private higher education has much to contribute to the...
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V-cs oppose quality report
The road to a single quality agency is getting rockier, writes Tony Tysome. Just when vice chancellors and principals thought it was safe to become bored with the politics of quality assurance, the...
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Four win stake in Canada EU link
British universities have won places in four of the first six projects in a pioneering cooperation programme between the European Union and Canada. Aberdeen, Luton, Sheffield and the Robert Gordon...
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New RCA rector seeks lucrative commissions
The new rector of the Royal College of Art is aiming to raise the international profile of the college to make it the international research institute for art and design. He also intends to fight for...
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Dundee nurses an ambition
Dundee University is poised to add unique breadth to nurse education in Scotland next session when nursing and midwifery courses are brought into higher education. The trainee nurses and midwives...
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Grants council spells doom
Antithesis (THES, April 19) pokes gentle fun at the alternatives proposed by word-processing spell-checkers. We still have a UGC here in Hong Kong. My spell-checker does not like that, and offers the...
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Yorkshire learners thicker on the ground
Adult education campaigners have been shocked by the results of a survey showing huge regional discrepancies in the rates of participation in post-16 continuing education. In the Gallup survey, which...
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Scots explore foreign ideas for industry initiative
Academics and industrialists are joining together in a bid to make Scotland a European leader in commercialising research in science and technology. Both sectors have given broad support to a draft...
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Secrets of drop-outs revealed
Students who quit their courses, often before the end of the first term, are the subject of a survey, whose results are published next month, aimed at solving the drop-out enigma. Researchers tracked...
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Scots on history track
Historians play a key role in helping our understanding of modern life, according to Peter Catterall, director of the Institute of Contemporary British History in London. Dr Catterall, giving the...
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Dig for a missing molar
Digging resumed in earnest this week at the Boxgrove site where archaeologists last year uncovered Britain's oldest hominid fossils. Dig directors from University College, London, hope to discover...
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Welsh watch eastern flock
A Welsh University is helping improve the quality of sheep flocks in Estonia and Hungary in preparation for the European market. Agriculture in parts of the former communist world is changing...
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Vintage year for creme
The creme de la creme of France's grandes ecoles appears to be of an even higher standard today than in the 1950s, which was a vintage decade for the production of the nation's elite. This is the...
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Data bank bid to stop PhD fraud
A German academic is campaigning for a central register for PhD titles following revelations that professionals are buying fraudulent degrees for up to Pounds 44,000 each. Manuel Theisen, a business...
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Students make desert tracks
A train service is crossing the Negev desert for the first time in 13 years thanks to students at Ben Gurion University. The service, from Beersheba to Tel Aviv, was abandoned by Israeli Railways in...