Adult strategies
Universities and colleges are given a major role in a new national strategy on adult education and career guidance, proposed in a consultation document launched this week by the National Advisory...
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Highlands mission
Activists for a University of the Highlands and Islands believe it is a step closer to reality with an impending investigation by Millennium Commission consultants. The development agency Highlands...
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Sea dump options
Dumping gas and oil installations such as Brent Spar at sea should still be considered as an option, according to the House of Lords science and technology select committee. But the installations...
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PFI made clear
The Government this week sought to sweep away misconceptions about the Private Finance Initiative in higher education. Treasury Financial Secretary Michael Jack told educational administrators that...
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UK lacks social skills
Those who live in a country awaiting an imminent disaster such as an earthquake, flood or drought can look to the United Kingdom for top-quality expertise. But UK experts are better at preparing...
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Peeping at Tom
(Photograph) - Peeping at Tom: Southampton University student Giles Horsfield is tracking tom-cats through radio transmitters on their collars. As part of his PhD he needs to know how far they are...
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Funding council patches up Paisley
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has intervened for a second time to protect a teacher education course at Paisley University threatened by Government intake cuts, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Ukraine picks brains at UCAS
Ukrainian academics are hoping to spark a wave of institutional reform in the former Soviet homeland following a fact-finding visit to London. A Ukrainian delegation, comprising two professors from...
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Welsh institutions form strategic body
A new organisation representing the interests of higher education in Wales has been launched. Heads of Higher Education in Wales comprises the vice chancellors, principals and chief executives of all...
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Tutorial system on the way out
Funding restrictions and the expansion in higher education participation have sounded the death knell for traditional one-on-one student tutoring, a new discussion paper warns. The Higher Education...
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A design of our times
This year the Royal College of Art celebrates its 100th anniversary. To mark the occasion it has mounted its largest ever showcalled "Design of the times" with more than 500 exhibits by students....
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Warning against 'usurpers'
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is acting like a "usurper and dirigiste", a leading educationist has claimed. David Robertson, convener of Dundee University's court and former director...
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Treasure housed
(Photograph) - Treasure housed: Curator David Gill holds a statuette, called a shabti, next to a cast of the head of Queen Nefertiti - part of a fabulous collection which Swansea University hopes to...
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'Magic cream' dispenses with jabs
Painful and frightening injections could become a thing of the past thanks to an innovative "magic cream" created by researchers at Queen's University, Belfast. The international healthcare company...
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Swansea plans for jewels of the Nile
A 3,000-year-old wooden coffin, built for a female musician from Thebes, lies in a dusty storage box, locked away in Swansea University. Alongside it is a limestone offering table, inscribed with...