NI union warns of shortfall in study places
Northern Ireland's department for employment and learning has dismissed student claims of an impending admissions crisis, writes Olga Wojtas. The National Union of Students - Union of Students in...
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Vocational A level tougher, colleges warn
College heads have urged university admissions tutors to ensure fair treatment of applicants holding "vocational A levels". The plea came as this week's results appeared to confirm warnings that...
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Leaked grant plan opens rift
The architect of the government's plans to extend education maintenance allowances to higher education this week called for the scheme to be restricted to the poorest families. Wendy Piatt, a senior...
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Concern at proposed charity law reforms
Universities fear they could face further regulation under reforms to charity law being considered by the government. Changes to the status of charities exempted from the jurisdiction of the Charity...
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Analysis: 'We build up a community of friends'
Clive Robertson is head of the subject centre for hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism based at Oxford Brookes' School of Hotel and Restaurant Management. He also runs a consultancy in product...
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Analysis: Is prodigy finally ready to prosper?
Teaching agency the LTSN has won many friends - but can it keep them? asks Pat Leon While City brokers measure success by the bulge of their business portfolio, higher education brokers believe in "...
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Snobbery is harming Scottish institutions
Scotland's traditional universities must abandon their "inflated academic snobbery" and work with new universities to help Scotland emerge from recession, a leading MSP said this week. Alex Neil,...
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Pay-offs must be justifiable
Universities will have to publish full details of pay-offs to their vice-chancellors, under guidelines issued this week. The advice, which followed an investigation triggered by The THES , stipulates...
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Union attacks nursing lecturers' pay bar
Lecturers' union Natfhe has stepped up its campaign against pay bars for nursing lecturers. A number of universities are in the process of dropping the rules, which stop nursing lecturers from...
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Findings: Fungi prevent tumour growth
A chemical extract from an oriental mushroom has proven to be an effective "vaccine" against cancer in mice. A study at the National University of Singapore has found that laboratory animals fed...
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Earth-shaking research
A team of Greek engineers has produced a computer model that could help prevent ancient monuments becoming victims of earthquakes. The research has emphasised the unpredictable nature of a particular...
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Staff and students unite to damn Canberra's voucher plan
ߣߣÊÓƵ's vice-chancellors, academics and students have flatly rejected federal government proposals for voucher-style funding of higher education. The government had suggested alternatives to the...
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AS trend deepens divide
Sixth-form exam reforms are threatening to widen the divide between old and new universities, experts warned this week. The first set of results from teenagers taking the new Curriculum 2000 courses...
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Student, 46, wins place for medicine
Mature students are expected to comprise two-thirds of the intake at one of the UK's new medical schools, with the oldest of them aged 46. Sam Leinster, dean of the University of East Anglia's new...
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Medical school saves funding for medics
One of the UK's newest medical schools, the Peninsula Medical School, is developing a model for funding student placements in a bid to stop the Department of Health transferring money from medics to...