Heads fear exam bypass
Headteachers urged vice-chancellors this week not to "bypass" plans to reform the exam system for 14 to 19-year-olds by setting up their own admissions tests to select candidates. The National...
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TEXTBOOK GUIDE A good dig through this summer's releases for a range of disciplines Also News: The gender divide - why women choose science and not engineering Books: Spurious science - Joan...
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UUK: cast net wide for top staff
University chiefs have been urged to look outside the old boys' network for their senior managers in a new set of guidelines designed to improve the quality and diversity of leadership in the sector...
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Back museums, v-cs told
Vice-chancellors will be urged this week to become champions and advocates for campus museums amid fears that universities overlook the potential of the collections in their care. A report published...
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Get business minds to jam, guru advises
The key to business success in the 21st-century is the ability to "jam" and innovate, UK business schools will be told next week, writes Paul Hill. John Kao, dubbed "Mr Creativity", will be in London...
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Quality watchdogs call for revamp to improve access courses' role
Access to higher education courses needs to be revamped and given a promotional boost, quality watchdogs have told the government, writes Tony Tysome. Inconsistent and confusing assessment standards...
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College budgets set to be slashed
Colleges could face savage funding cuts next year to plug a shortfall of up to £500 million in the overall further education budget. And the bulk of the cuts may hit courses designed to widen access...
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Adult learners drop to lowest level under Labour
The proportion of adults in learning has dropped to its lowest level since before the government came to power, a national survey has found, writes Tony Tysome. Some 19 per cent of adults said they...
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Poetry to Oxford ears
Acclaimed literary critic Christopher Ricks has been elected the next professor of poetry at Oxford University. The professor of humanities at Boston University received 214 out of 531 votes from...
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New data access law
Details of admissions verdicts, budget decisions and marking schemes - but not exam scripts - will have to be released by universities under the Freedom of Information Act from January 1 2005....
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Student hardship study
More than a third of student midwives are being forced to work up to 20 hours a week to pay their way through a course, according to the Royal College of Midwives. The RCM student hardship survey,...
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Essex set to go Olympic
Athletes may train at Essex University if London is picked as host city for the 2012 Olympic Games. The university hopes that if the International Olympic Committee chooses London, its Wivenhoe Park...
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Cancer research boost
Glasgow University and Cancer Research UK have won planning permission for a £14 million centre for cancer research. The site, expected to be completed by 2006, will house up to 240 researchers....
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Boys shunning HE
The number of 11 to 16-year-old boys who want to go to university has dropped from 70 per cent to 66 per cent in the last year. according to a Mori poll for the Sutton Trust. One-third of those...
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Ethnic increase
The proportion of students from ethnic minority backgrounds entering higher education rose between 2001-02 and 2002-03, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. The percentage of non...