Warm sell
THE world of higher education may have relatively few perks but at least they are timely. The thought may have crossed the minds of education minister Baroness Blackstone and Higher Education Funding...
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Robin's nest
New Year, new and immense pay rise, at least for some. So greetings to all the top people whose appointments you read about in these pages so long ago that you assumed they had done the job and...
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DFEE flies careers kite
Counselling and careers advice must become as much of a priority in universities as teaching and research, according to a Department for Education and Employment briefing paper, writes Phil Baty. The...
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Graduates face small firm snub
Almost 10 per cent of small firms avoid recruiting graduates, according to research published by the Department for Education and Employment. Many employers believe that graduates lack work...
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Cabinet papers reveal cuts talk
Labour considered student loans 30 years ago. The chancellor was pushing for cuts. There was talk of loans replacing grants. And government plans for reviewing university finances were criticised as...
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Housewives' support rebuffed
OPPOSITION to the introduction of loans was widespread in Scotland 30 years ago. Newly released Scottish Office files include a lengthy memo from the Scottish Union of Students, whose president...
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Yiddish row simmers
A LEADING Jewish scholar, who dropped claims of racist abuse from his former employers at an industrial tribunal this week, says he is still considering legal action against them. Dovid Katz...
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Geography out of favour
Recruitment to undergraduate geography degrees has fallen by over 10 per cent with all the signs suggesting it could get worse. The Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers'...
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Clashes over Serbian rule
Ethnic Albanian students and academics in Kosovo last week resumed demonstrations to "reclaim" education buildings for teaching in their own language. According to Serbia's interior ministry, the...
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Willetts decides tactics on bill
The last thing the Tories need to produce is more detailed policy documents, shadow higher education spokesman David Willetts acknowledges with irony since he made his political reputation in the...
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`Be radical' is Lib-Dem cry
Phil Willis, Liberal Democrat spokesman on further and higher education argues that the problem with British higher education is that development was incremental. "Dearing assumed that he was...
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Bell change for Bradford
At first sight Colin Bell, the next vice chancellor of Bradford University, seems an unlikely choice. Professor Bell, who will succeed David Johns next August, is a social scientist and senior vice...
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Lottery strings bind museums
CASH-STRAPPED university museums and galleries could get Pounds 3 million from a funding council to help them bid for lottery funds. But museum heads fear that few, if any, institutions will benefit...
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Charities grow short of helpers
The number of charity shops has expanded dramatically over the past 15 years, with Oxfam alone now equivalent in size to the Dixons electrical chain. But this expansion, and increasing competition...
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Ageism alive and well into 2000
Sexism and racism may be well off limits in the politically correct 1990s, but ageism remains endemic to western society, according to researchers from the University of Northumbria. Geography...