Canny way to a degree
Scotland gives pupils an option-filled path to higher education; England weeds them out of the school system, says Jenny Rees. The government's target to increase participation in higher education in...
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What are we thinking about?
Brenda Gourley says shallow soundbites have replaced considered opinion when we need it most. We are at a serious time in our history - a time when we should be thirsting for the considered, informed...
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Why I... am <i> so </i> proud to be a 'learning provider'
It is not that managers love language too little but that they love it too much. And love can be destructive. The endless care expended on words, the endless redrafting just to produce sentences such...
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EU plan to deflect scholars from UK
A proposed European Union directive aims to divert international students away from the UK to smaller member states. Two-thirds of the 400,000 foreign students in the EU attend courses at...
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Student attacks widening access
The scale of the task facing Conservative reformers was made apparent in Bournemouth this week when a student delegate revealed the antipathy of some party members to the realities of widening...
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Universities next on Tory reform agenda
Universities will be the next target for Conservative education reforms, party spokesmen said this week. The Tories took on Labour on its home ground as it unveiled an agenda for reform that saw...
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FE crisis hampers HE growth
Further education colleges' ability to expand their higher education work is being hampered by a worsening staffing crisis. An Association of Colleges survey shows that the number of unfilled...
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Beatles give students a little help
Archivists at Dundee University have uncovered a hoard of 500 photographs of The Beatles taken while they filmed Help! in 1965. The images were taken by Hungarian-born photojournalist Michael Peto...
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Tutors continue to run axed courses
Tutors made redundant when their courses were axed by the University of Gloucestershire in June have established themselves as a group of independent lecturers. Some 44 part-time and full-time staff...
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Call for education grants for over-55s
The government should introduce education grants for over-55s. These would cut healthcare and social-service bills as well as redress a serious imbalance in education policy, according to a report....
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Rift over pay threatens expansion
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...
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Whistle blown on Manchester fan myth
It is one of the most enduring truths in Premiership football and a crumb of comfort for the bitter Manchester City fan. But the cliche of the Manchester United faithful making the trip to Old...
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College girls miffed at axing
The decision to cancel the fifth episode of College Girls , the Channel 4 documentary on students at the all-women's Oxford college of St Hilda's, has angered the students who took part. Ruth Hunt,...
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Southampton forms military alliance
* The University of Southampton has joined forces with the Royal Military College of Science to offer university places to those wanting a technical career in the forces or a civilian role in the...