Britain must fight to keep foreign trade
British universities are unprofessional, complacent and naive in their approach to recruiting overseas students, according to a report published by the British Council this week. Their international...
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Physics and chemistry suffer Napier axe
Napier University is dropping degrees in physics and chemistry because of lack of student interest. The university will have no new intake in physics or chemistry in the coming academic year....
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Consultants clash on sub-degree costs
* There is no evidence that it is cheaper to teach students at sub-degree level than at degree level, according to a study by J M Consulting, published this week. The work, which was commissioned by...
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Trust backs Exeter Cathedral project
Cathedral sculptures research, which had been abandoned by Exeter University because it was not eligible for the research assessment exercise, has won funding from Leverhulme Trust. Exeter pulled the...
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Unions ballot over forced jobs losses
Staff at Edge Hill College of Higher Education are furious over plans to cut staff and undergraduate provision in underachieving subjects and invest in those recruiting well. Lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Radical visionary gets Byers's approval
Universities should charge market-rate tuition fees, split into public and private research elites and teaching-only institutions, and encourage academics to work in the private sector, according to...
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Free, quality schooling wins unions' backing
Lecturers' union Natfhe and the National Union of Teachers pledged their support for the Global Campaign for Education's Action Week this week. Organisations across the world are attempting to...
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Stagecoach owner shows he has a heart
Brian Souter, owner of the Stagecoach company, has given Glasgow University Pounds 1 million towards the cost of Scotland's first magnetic resonance imaging scanner dedicated to heart disease...
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Troubled ocean lab plans shift to Liverpool
The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, one of three institutes that make up the troubled Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences, is to forge closer links with nearby University of Liverpool. John...
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Bouncers display their brain power
Bar brawlers will be battling brains as well as brawn if bouncers sign on for a course offered by the Plymouth College of Further Education. Eighteen bouncers today receive the first Door Supervisors...
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Rise in awards for women
The number of women on full-time higher education courses with support from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland rose from 44,500 in 1992-93 to 59,300 in 1998-99, while the number of male students...
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Derby in trouble again
An internal audit has uncovered major failings at another of Derby University's overseas businesses. The university's academic audit committee has described as "unacceptable" and "inadequate" Derby's...
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'Pay, for me, is not the be-all and end-all of life'
Simon Parker (right) decided to pursue a postgraduate certificate in education because of a desire to help others. Currently a PGCE student in secondary art and design at Chester College, he had...
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TTA friendship - with strings
Barely seven weeks after taking thehelm at the Teacher Training Agency, chief executive Ralph Tabberer (left) has already been able to offer the university sector something it has been crying out for...
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Name and shame
I enjoyed Gargi Bhattach-aryya's article ("Feelgood is no good", THES, March 31). It is all very well setting targets and quotas for the entry of women and ethnic groups into higher education. We...