Warning over rise of 'corporate degrees'
UNIVERSITIES risk being sidelined as big business shuns higher education in favour of in-house "corporate degrees", vice chancellors were warned this week. As companies find higher education does not...
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Stronger lobby for academic medicine
ACADEMIC medicine will soon have a single voice to represent its interests with the formation of an Academy of Medical Sciences. The new group, which should be operating by October 1998, will speak...
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Unfair dismissal verdict pending
AN INDUSTRIAL tribunal has reserved judgement for a month on the case of Mary Rice, the ex-head of public communications at the Medical Research Council, who took action against her former employer...
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Bell becomes Bradford vice chancellor
COLIN Bell, senior vice principal and professor of sociology at Edinburgh University, will succeed David Johns as vice chancellor of Bradford University next August. Professor Bell teaches advanced...
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Student Awards Agency shakeup promised
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson has promised a review of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland in the wake of this session's fiasco of delayed fees and grants, blamed on computer problems....
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Scottish colleges get cooperation funds
FURTHER education colleges in Scotland have won Pounds 1.3 million from the government to encourage them to work together. The Strategic Initiatives Fund for Further Education follows an ongoing...
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Praise for Irish venture
A VENTURE between Queen's University, Belfast and University College, Cork has been hailed as a landmark for north-south cooperation in Ireland. The initiative, also involving shipbuilders Harland...
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Ireland's further education sector has been left out of a cash boost for education
The province's further education sector has again been left out of a Pounds 2 million cash boost for education. Natfhe's Jim McKeown said: "The government has come up with substantial extra resources...
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A donnish Dearing
Yet another honour for Sir Ron. No, not the peerage yet, but Tory MP Nick St Aubyn, speaking in the Commons debate on tuition fees, was so overcome by his admiration that he unilaterally renamed him...
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Rise and rise of the FEmale
Men and women will always compete, but for different reasons. Alan Thomson reports MORE women are reaching the top in further education having proved themselves adept opportunists when it comes to...
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'No room for bias'. The City mounts its defence
Phil Baty asked employers in the Square Mile what they were doing to recruit more ethnic minoritygraduates. Here are their responses: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Vivian Dykstra, head of graduate...
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Overwork fraying nerves at the OU
OPEN University staff are suffering stress and ill-health as a result of overwork, the university's own internal audit has discovered, writes Phil Baty. The report, Health, Stress and Well-Being,...
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Oxbridge stays 'special'
OXBRIDGE should be able to maintain its "special character" under any future funding arrangements, the Higher Education Funding Council for England stressed this week. But colleges remain no wiser...
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Leaked report shows fear and chaos in the Thames Valley University
A LEAKED internal report on Thames Valley University paints a warts-and-all picture of an institution beset by staff/management antipathy, organisational chaos and fears over educational standards....
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Scots welcome conduct code
ALMOST two thirds of Scottish further education college boards of management have adopted a code of conduct as recommended by the Nolan committee, writes Olga Wojtas. This was revealed in an...