Brunel axes undergrad physics and chemistry
BRUNEL University, founded as a centre of technological excellence, this week confirmed it would stop taking undergraduate physics and chemistry students after September. Instead the physics and...
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Call for key skills in university entrance tests
THE GOVERNMENT should impose key skills exams on universities, Roger Murphy, Nottingham University education faculty dean and author of a Government-commissioned report, suggested this week....
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Better deal for disabled college students
COLLEGES are to become more responsive to students with learning difficulties and disabilities. The Further Education Funding Council will implement about half of the 70 recommendations made in John...
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Contracting career services proves costly
THE LAST government's 1994 decision to transfer responsibility for careers services from local education authorities to private contractors has cost the Department for Education and Employment Pounds...
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Professor denies indecent assault charges
A LEADING expert on Descartes from Reading University has denied two charges of indecent assault. The case against John Cottingham, head of philosophy, was being heard this week in Reading Crown...
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Tutor to face court over body parts thefts
A SCULPTURE tutor from the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture was this week charged with the theft of body parts, which he used in his exhibits. Anthony-Noel Kelly, 41, was arrested in April...
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Howells wants UN backing for adult learning
LIFELONG learning minister Kim Howells has called on the United Nations to back his plan for an "International Week of Adult Learning". Speaking at Unesco's fifth international conference on adult...
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Gregory to step down early from Goldsmiths
KEN Gregory, warden of Goldsmiths College, is to take early retirement next year. Professor Gregory, appointed to the University of London college in 1992, had his five-year contract extended to 2003...
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Funding boost for small business staff training
THE DEPARTMENT for Education and Employment has given Pounds 500,000 to encourage small businesses to train staff through the Investors in People standard. Training and Enterprise Councils are...
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Clearout is urged
UNIVERSITIES would need a wholesale clearout of senior staff if Sir Ron Dearing's vision of a seamless interplay between higher education and the business world is to be realised, writes Phil Baty....
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Lending to live - and to really live
Sir Ron Dearing wants student loans extended and means-tested. Chris Condron found that for some students loans are a lifeline and for others a luxury. Kathryn Pyke, 21, University of Greenwich, who...
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Will Wednesday be Winsday?
The culmination of more than a year's research, analysis and thought on higher education by some of the key figures in academe and industry will be packed into an oversized "shoebox" by Sir Ron...
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Biotech go-ahead
The European Parliament this week voted in favour of the controversial European Biotechnology Patent Directive by 388 to 110. After an earlier version was defeated two years ago, it aims to clarify...
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Teacher bonuses
Trainee teachers could get a cash handout under Teacher Training Agency plans to encourage applicants to undersubscribed subject areas. Plans will be put before ministers in September, the TTA said...
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Doom of languages
A national inquiry is urgently needed to prevent "Armageddon" in university language departments, a leading linguist warned this week. Michael Kelly, chair of the Universities Council of Modern...