Too tired to apply
Vice-chancellors have warned that universities are suffering from funding "initiative fatigue". They have told funding chiefs their institutions have been set too many short-term "challenges"...
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Material witness
The Science Museum's Challenge of Materials website has won second prize in the Pirelli INTERNETional awards for the spread of scientific culture. www. sciencemuseum.org.uk/ on-line/challenge/ index....
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Scots fee fallout triggers alarm
Alarm spread throughout higher education this week as the realisation dawned that university funding could collapse following the abolition of tuition fees by the new Scottish Parliament. Vice-...
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Dublin advised to bring back fees
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has told the Irish government it should re-introduce tuition fees - abolished four years ago - to help stop the booming economy overheating,...
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For the record
* An investigation into the alleged illegal use of asbestos has been launched by the Health and Safety Executive at the University of Wales, Bangor. Some staff have been sent for medical screening...
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For the record
* Students at De Montfort University's Bedford campuses protested this week demanding the university drop plans to sell its Lansdowne campus - one of four main sites. They also want satellite...
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For the record
* Students abandoned their sit-in of Sussex University administration offices last Friday for fear they were blocking distribution of grant cheques. The protest was at letters sent to students who...
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For the record
* Ministers' plans to reform A levels may be blighted by weaknesses in module-based A levels, Her Majesty's Inspectors have warned. Plans to broaden A-level study, which include the mass introduction...
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* Jenny Shackleton has retired from her post as ministerial adviser on the New Deal in an escalating row over her pay-off as principal of Wirral Metropolitan College. Lecturers' union Natfhe wrote to...
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* Student hardship is damaging academic success, two reports by the Further Education Funding Council have found. The Hardship of Learning found that college students' average annual income was...
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* Heriot-Watt University has been criticised by quality auditors for ambiguously playing-down its relationship with Israeli partner, Ramat-Gan College, and underestimating the need for quality...
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* Lowestoft College's Lee Nash (below) has won a Pounds 1,250 travel award for his entry to the Royal Society of Arts student design competition's postage stamp category. He was commended by judges...
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For the record
* Discounts for London students on buses and tubes has been extended to cover over-24s. From next September, all students in participating institutions, except those in work, will be entitled to a 30...
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For the record
* The government came under fire this week after it announced that it would appoint the first person to chair the new General Teaching Council for England. Education minister Baroness Blackstone...
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For the record
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is planning to raise its grants to promote wider access from just over Pounds 7 million this academic year to almost Pounds 11 million in 1999-00. This...