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The Labour Party's favoured option for a student charge is a system based on the ߣߣÊÓƵn higher education contribution scheme, under which each student pays a portion of their tuition costs...
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Oxford loses scholar
Philip Alexander, president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, rocked in recent months by a row over Yiddish studies, has resigned to return to Manchester University. Professor...
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THES taps into academic interest on the Net
The majority of British academics, even in the least technological disciplines, are users of advanced computer-based communications technology, according to a THES survey of readers. More than 85 per...
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V-cs favour HEQC
Vice chancellors want a new quality regime based on the "success" of the Higher Education Quality Council rather than the "mess" presided over by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Noah's arc
(Photograph) - The Tyne Bridge makes an unfamiliar background for Mongezi Noah, a lecturer from South Africa's Fort Hare University studying for a doctorate at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College...
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Quality official predicts failures
More universities will face the prospect of departments receiving the equivalent of "unsatisfactory" quality gradings when the Higher Education Funding Council for England introduces its new system...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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LSE head 'not quitting'
John Ashworth, director of the London School of Economics, says he has not ruled out a second term of office if it were offered to him. Dr Ashworth's six-year fixed term appointment ends in September...
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FE degree funding future in doubt
Future payments to further education colleges providing degree and sub-degree level courses is under review by the Higher Education Funding Council which next week publishes a report giving the...
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False memory exists, say psychologists
Many British psychologists accept the possibility of false memories, according to a survey by the British Psychological Society. Of 810 chartered psychologists responding, two-thirds accepted the...
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On the ball
(Photograph) - Gloucester went public on Monday with its University for Gloucester Project, under which a university would be built on the city's disused quayside. Consultant Sir Christopher Ball (...
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Site of debate
The World Archaeology Congress-III began in extraordinary circumstances in New Delhi and ended in uproar. Jonathan Sawday was there "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih'' -- those familiar with Vedic...
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Mrs T =MC2
Simon Targett reports on the link between creativity and leadership. Einstein and Thatcher. Two names to conjure with, for sure. But in the same breath? That is what Harvard professor Howard Gardner...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Croydon schoolteacher who was twice prosecuted for obscenity: "But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence....
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Speaking Volumes: James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar
Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...