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Big Brother contestant Helen Adams joined education and skills secretary Estelle Morris at Villa Park to launch a campaign encouraging adults to 'Get On' to basic skills courses. Get On is the...
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Dem bones
Cambridge University palaeontologist Leslie Noe examines a rib bone from a Jurassic crocodile, a Steneosaurus, excavated from a site near Ely.
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Access plan that totally backfired
Government policy aimed at widening participation has had the opposite effect. Instead of raising poorer youngsters' aspirations, it has deepened their reluctance to consider studying for a degree,...
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Analysis: Stretched system set to snap?
Vice-chancellors are meeting next week to decide the future of a sector pulled in different directions by a new Labour government that wants universities to do it all. UK higher education is not "fit...
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Student loans: godsend for rich
The Labour government has got almost everything wrong in the changes it has made to higher education and failed to put right the previous government's mistakes, according to one of the government's...
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Analysis: 'I've a deck chair in physics'
Harriet Swain finds that academics at summer conferences are just as likely to pack swimming trunks as a trunk full of books. It is a perfect blue-skied Venetian morning in August and you have just...
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Don's Diary
April The survey crew assembles on the dive boat and makes the long ocean run from Florida to Haiti. The time is spent poring over old charts and accounts of the wreck. As we enter the Gulf of Gonave...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Birmingham has awarded honorary degrees to mark the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. It awarded them to: John Brown, professor of theatre,...
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In the news: Howard Glennerster
Howard Glennerster hit the headlines this week when he attacked the Labour government's spending record on higher education. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's electoral platform of "education,...
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On the move
Julie Grant, senior teacher in charge of staff development at the Howard School in Gillingham, Kent, has been appointed head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. The University of London has...
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Button those lips
What is the meaning of the string of buttons on the cover of this week's Universities UK publication, Patterns of Higher Education Institutions in the UK? Could it be a comment on the feasting...
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Sitting target
Here is a cautionary tale about the perils of online chat. The appearance of the dear, departed John Randall, former head of the Quality Assurance Agency, live on the EducationGuardian website led to...
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Heavy-duty audit
Meanwhile, Howard Glennerster, professor of social administration in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, has revealed the sheer weight of Teaching Quality...
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History dulls senses
Cambridge University Press is speeding up its reaction to current events. Despite the university receiving a royal charter from Henry VIII in 1534 to print and publish books, it did not produce any...
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Burundi plans for peace
Burundi has fewer university students per head than any other African country. A recent independent report, by International Alert, called the state of its education "desperate". Since independence...