Quality partnership
The British Association for Open Learning and the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council have formed a partnership to advise learndirect, the delivery arm of the University for Industry, on...
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The 'shambles' over Daresbury
Labour MP Ian Gibson attacks his government's handling of the siting of the new synchrotron source. Kam Patel reports Former academic and Labour MP Ian Gibson has launched a scathing attack on the...
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Union rejects grievance plan
Students have dismissed Cambridge University's belated plans to establish a complaints procedure as "fundamentally unfair" and a "terrible lost opportunity". A university working group has outlined...
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Graduate jobs cut
Employers cut graduate recruitment by a third last year, while graduate salaries rose by four times the rate of inflation. A third fewer people were recruited onto graduate schemes in 1999, according...
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Essex bid to grow beside the seaside
A multi-million pound business plan to support 1,500 new higher education students in Southend went before funding chiefs this week. The University of Essex and South East Essex College have joined...
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No future for non-learners
In 2020 there will be more graduates globally than the world population 100 years ago, says the author of a report on the future published this week. The report, Engines of Change, from the Chatham...
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Win a wildlife degree course
"Think you've got a natural future? Win a university place!" That is the offer from the University of East London in collaboration with BBC Wildlife magazine. Potential students must answer 20...
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Over 80% vetoed blueprint
Phil Baty reveals the strength of opposition to QAA plans for teaching quality Data released by the Quality Assurance Agency reveals that it ignored universities' near-unanimous opposition to plans...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Last day of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Here to attend the conference but also to publicise our weight-loss...
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Principally pompous
Today's meeting of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will reveal to members some uncomfortable truths. Focus groups, commissioned market research and meetings over recent weeks to...
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Tee, anyone?
What a good wheeze, thought the chaps at the Indiana University board of trustees. How better to make use of a bit of undeveloped university land than to build a designer golf course? Professors and...
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Brad-fjord
Anyone who thought Bradford was all about Baltis and cricket has missed something - skiing. Bradford University's expertise in winter sports has attracted a senior Norwegian researcher in snow and...
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Quiet-night animals
Who said students had no fight in them any more? What about the campaign being mounted by officers of Cardiff University student union? Those radical yoof have mounted a protest against a planning...
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In the news
The new General Teaching Council may be headed by a film-maker - Lord Puttnam - but it is Ralph Tabberer, chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency from next week, who thrives in front of an...
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On the move
Six new members have been appointed to the Further Education Funding Council as it approaches transition of responsibilities to the Learning and Skills Council. They are: Alexandra Burslem, vice-...