Scots opt for unified system
Scottish higher and further education, vocational training and community education must all be brought together under a single national strategy rather than being treated as separate sectors. This is...
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Minorities impeded in job search
Blacks and Asians are twice as likely as white graduates to be unemployed six months after leaving university, a conference heard this week. The latest research, by the Association of Graduate...
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Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classics
The ruling senate at Queen's University has backed a controversial plan to close its classics department despite intervention by Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney. A majority vote by the senate last...
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Lecturers balk at Bradford merger
Bradford University academics have called for a referendum on whether their institution should merge with a neighbouring further education college, writes Alison Utley. An extraordinary meeting of...
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News in brief
Unions could unseat Manchester merger Trade unions at Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology warned this week that failure to involve them in final...
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Mergers pave way for Welsh super-university
The Welsh have taken a step towards the creation of a single federal "super university" for the principality. New proposals for mergers and strategic alliances were this week submitted by...
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Tech-transfer course is a first
The first technology-transfer training programme aimed directly at university staff was launched this week. Praxis, the UK University Technology Transfer Programme, has been designed by enterprise...
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Poison risks fuel research fears
Evidence of widespread arsenic contamination of groundwater has been found in parts of Vietnam that had been assessed by the British Geological Survey. News of the discovery follows the launch of a...
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Jewish fury over website sparks university rethink
Birmingham University may stop hosting personal websites for its staff after complaints that one was strongly anti-Israel. A report in The Jewish Chronicle said that the board of deputies had asked...
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Scots face languages crisis
Modern languages in Scotland's universities are in a catastrophic state because of underfunding, Gordon Millan, chair of the University Council of Modern Languages Scotland, is to warn. Professor...
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OECD: Colleges cash in on overseas students
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league The overseas student market is big business for universities across the OECD. In 1998 alone, it accounted for up to $30...
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OECD: British benefit from lean study
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league Britain's shorter degrees are the key to reduced dropout rates and offer the highest rate of return to individual graduates,...
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OECD: High intakes, short courses are key
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league. A clear correlation between the successful expansion of higher education and the length of degree emerges from the OECD data...
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OECD: Degree dividends biggest in Britain
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league Getting a degree pays dividends for UK graduates, even when tuition fee repayments and higher tax liabilities are taken into...
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Unesco mellows market drive
Unesco has launched a worldwide forum to ensure that international higher education standards will be upheld and not fall victim to growing commercialisation. It sees the initiative as a complement,...