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The British Council has launched a website designed to enable learners of all levels and ages to practise English. There are three learning zones: kids, teens and adults. When users enter they are...
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Further facts
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has launched a new online database, InFact, giving detailed information on student enrolments in Scotland's 47 further education colleges. It includes...
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The genome is just the start for biology
In its early days, cynics often termed the Human Genome Project an advanced case of "physics envy" - the biologists' lust for a big project to rival the particle accelerators and space telescopes of...
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An isolated academy is no good for democracy
Academics should put politics aside and reach out to Serbia's long-suffering intellectuals, writes Dejan Djokic Exactly two years after the Serbian parliament ended the autonomy of universities, the...
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Bretton Hall under inquiry
Daniel Stone, financial director of Bretton Hall College in Wakefield, has been suspended while an inquiry is carried out for the Higher Education Funding Council, putting pressure on the college's...
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Gambling rise a lottery legacy
The number of households gambling more than 10 per cent of their weekly income has quadrupled since the introduction of the National Lottery, a new study has found. Analysis of official data by Paul...
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Sheffield College set to axe 180 jobs
Lecturers' union leaders have condemned as "educational vandalism" plans to axe 180 jobs at Britain's biggest further education college, writes Tony Tysome. Representatives of Natfhe, the college...
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Voices unite against top-up fees
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
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Plan for 'instant' degrees abandoned
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that has a winged Cockney heroine: " 'Lor' love you, sir!' Fevvers sang out in a voice that...
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Sharp exchange over the blunt scythe of selection
Alas, Poor Darwin - Dear Mr Darwin - The Mating Mind - A Natural History of Rape
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Evil designs of pillage upon a complex cultural canvas
The Faustian Bargain
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Perchance to dream... of treacle
The Annotated Alice
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Sex and drugs and serious thought
A Brief History of the Future
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Social life of the worldwide web
Weaving the Web