QAA issues rules for placements
Universities will have to take full responsibility for the quality of their students' work placements or study-abroad programmes under a new list of rules from the Quality Assurance Agency. The QAA...
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Debt bites for dental students
A £10,000 debt is the norm for dental school graduates and it could hit recruitment in hospitals and community dental services, says the British Dental Association. The BDA says dental graduates are...
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Ucas to put ideas in young minds
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is preparing to launch a careers website designed to get school pupils thinking earlier about higher education. Code-named "Advancement", the project...
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Praise for initiative that offers OU study to bright-spark pupils
Bright sixth-formers could be offered university courses alongside traditional A and AS levels following the success of a pilot scheme in the north of England. The Open University said an experiment...
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V-c plans entente for Kent
Kent University is planning a cross-Channel university while extending its partnerships with local colleges, incoming vice-chancellor David Melville said this week. Professor Melville, who takes over...
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Car scheme may hit staff pockets
A government initiative to raise money to improve city transport could cost university staff across the country millions of pounds, Nottingham University chiefs have warned. Local authorities have...
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Analysis: Odd jobs are ever more common
To cover the cost of a degree, more young people are taking paid work. Student stocktakers, sperm donors and models tell Cherry Canovan of the highs and lows of work and study. Students are...
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Whistleblowers
Bath ad sparks race row Bath University could be in trouble with the Commission for Racial Equality for including discriminatory conditions in an advertisement for a job vacancy. The CRE confirmed...
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On the move
Diana Walford , director of the Public Health Laboratory Service, has been elected principal of Mansfield College , Oxford, after David Marquand, retires in October 2002. The composer and conductor...
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In the news: Laura D'Andrea Tyson
As dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura D'Andrea Tyson was the first woman to head a major American business school. This week, she was named the first...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday A second day of tutorials with International Red Cross managers in Nairobi. We look at their assignments: cultural diversity within the Red Cross, humanitarian advocacy in the information...
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Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
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Singing for his supper
Tuition fees should be doubled... if students were not doing part-time jobs they would only be watching television... higher education is a middle-class tax perk... Strange that there was no whisper...
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Eat your heart out Rita
Willy Russell's Rita would not have a hope. A BBC trailer for Open University programmes contrasts OU television of the 1970s, complete with wide-collared lecturer and pointing baton, with its new...
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Surfing for a place
The number of extra places available this year will make clearing a breeze for many students. However, a laid-back approach is unwise for anyone wanting to study for the University of Plymouth's BSc...