Oxford pilots bias-free test
Oxford University is developing a test to identify students with life-long potential rather than the ability to pass exams. About 150 sixth-formers from state and independent schools took part in a...
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More courses
OnLine Education is to add 20 more degrees and professional courses to its portfolio in the next 18 months. All the courses will come from universities and colleges in the UK. The company has focused...
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The Scottish Further Education Funding Council
* The Scottish Further Education Funding Council is to set up its own complaints system for those dissatisfied with the results of internal college complaints procedures. It proposes an appeals panel...
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Top-up fees 'will put off the poor'
Top-up fees represent a risky investment that will deter students from poorer backgrounds, says a report from economists at the University of Warwick. The salaries of graduates from elite...
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Fees for slow learners
First degrees will remain free in German universities, the education ministers of the 16 federal states have agreed in an attempt to end the fierce dispute over student fees. But the states will be...
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Fitting reward
(Photograph) - Fitting reward: joiner Steven Garrett has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth Pounds 10,800 to learn the rare skill of ecclesiastical joinery on a course specially created for him...
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Holy confusion
A Sikh academic who failed to win a post at Ulster University has brought a racial discrimination case against the institution. But the industrial tribunal hearing has been delayed because officials...
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Perfect 24 for failed course
Quality chiefs have accepted that there is nothing wrong with a pioneering course at Derby University that they had criticised heavily just 18 months ago. The university's postgraduate distance-...
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BP chief is to chair the LSC
BP Amoco chief Bryan Sanderson has been named chairman of the new Learning and Skills Council, which will lead post-16 education and training from next April, writes Tony Tysome. Mr Sanderson will...
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Copy deal produces multiple savings
Higher education purchasing consortia are set to save Pounds 20 million through an innovative national photocopying contract, and if every university in the country signs up to the deal, the savings...
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UCL ends stand-off with QAA reviewers
University College London has stopped its boycott of the Quality Assurance Agency following a meeting with the agency's chief executive, John Randall. UCL vice-provost Michael Worton confirmed this...
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Students seek fee abolition
Students in Northern Ireland have called on the reconvened assembly to abolish tuition fees from 2001 and to introduce a Pounds 2,000 non-repayable bursary for low-income students, lone parents and...
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Liverpool nursing course joins list of teaching quality failures
Liverpool University has become the fourth university to fail a teaching quality inspection. One of its prestigious nursing degrees does not meet statutory requirements for professional nurse...
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Glittering prizes
Gerry McKenna, vice-chancellor of the University of Ulster, has been awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Coleraine. Cricketer David Gower has been awarded Heriot-Watt University Sports Union's...
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Proof-reading on the web
A literary website set up by Sheffield Hallam University gives proof-reading a new meaning. Proof, a web-based creative writing magazine, is believed to be the first of its kind in this country....