Degree boosts earning power
Graduates earn significantly more than their peers who left education after A levels, according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. Based on data from the National Child...
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NERC in hot water over oceanography centre
The Natural Environment Research Council has been slated by the National Audit Office for poorly managing plans to build its oceanography centre in Southampton. The council budgeted Pounds 49 million...
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Back to roots as Aberdeen goes organic
Aberdeen University is setting up a multimillion pound centre for organic agriculture to help British producers meet the increasing demand for more affordable, high-quality organic food. Supermarket...
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Students shred rag mag over Diana gag
Students at Queen's University Belfast were forced this week to pulp thousands of copies of their annual rag magazine after outrage over a page of jokes about Diana, Princess of Wales. The student...
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Rhind heads to City University as v-c
City University has appointed David Rhind, director general and chief executive of the Ordnance Survey, as its vice-chancellor. He will replace Raoul Franklin, the longest-serving vice-chancellor, on...
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Professor Ludmilla Jordanova
Editorial changes made to the profile of Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, which appeared in last week's THES, introduced an unintentional error. She is currently vice-president of the British Society...
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Pounds 8m lift for skills projects
ARTS and humanities students may gain the most from a new Pounds 8 million scheme to boost graduate employability. The cash will fund 55 development projects in higher education institutions around...
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Further education faces Pounds 39m cut
FURTHER education will be Pounds 39 million worse off in cash terms in 1998 compared with 1996, according to the Association of Colleges. But under plans announced by the Further Education Funding...
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Peers threaten delay for fees
PEERS are threatening to sink government plans to introduce tuition fees this year after moving for a rerun of the committee stage of the controversial Teaching and Higher Education Bill. Amendments...
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'Everyone needs to be re-educated'
Students are holding their own multinational talks on the future of Northern Ireland in Belfast Kerry-Ann Huxley, 19, is following a course in health and social care in East Antrim Institute of...
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Danish women fight to bring home the bacon
Koge DENMARK is bringing out a blueprint to raise the numbers of women in university research to put it on a par with its neighbours. Only 19 per cent of all university employees and 6 per cent of...
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Call for a degree of rivalry
Rome Academics are mounting an offensive against the legal status of Italian degrees as one of the basic obstacles to a radical renovation of the ailing state university system. They argue that if...
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Saddam's double
I liked the irony of your montage of Saddam Hussein's image. Of course both Saddam and his son Uday have doubles who underwent cosmetic surgery and look like them, but a genetically identical one is...
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Bullying probe hits Anglia
Allegations of nepotism and bullying against Anglia Polytechnic University Business School head Hugh Jenkins are under investigation. The university's audit and compliance committee met this week to...
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Rejected Bolton calls for inquiry
Bolton Institute staff governors have launched a bitter attack on the Quality Assurance Agency over its "unwarranted" dismissal of the institute's bid for a university title. They have accused the...