Stats tool fills census gaps
A statistical model devised to estimate wildlife populations will be used in this year's census to make it the most accurate ever. Ian Diamond, professor of social statistics at Southampton...
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A post-16 challenge
Further education colleges and training providers must provide cheap and easy access to courses that learners and employers really want, says a new report. The report by the Further Education Funding...
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Scots one-stop shop aims to end 'blind date' job search
Scotland is set to lead the UK with a pioneering one-stop careers advice shop for people of all ages. Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, today unveiled plans...
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Former church college in merger talks with Birmingham University
Birmingham University is negotiating to complete a merger with the former Westhill College of Higher Education. The two institutions had already entered into a strategic alliance and set up a joint...
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Advisers can opt out of new law
Universities and colleges have won an 11th-hour exemption from statutory registration to regulate immigration advisers. Student advice services, however, will still have to conform to a strict code...
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Scots fear budget reforms upheaval
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council seems determined to plough on with teaching and research funding reforms despite widespread calls for a moratorium while a strategic review of the sector...
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Tories to levy 13% on loans, critics say
Academics, students and Liberal Democrats claim the Conservative Party's plan to "privatise" universities would mean graduates paying 13 per cent interest on their student loan debts. The Tory...
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Doctor quits Imperial over fees
A senior consultant responsible for admissions at Imperial College Medical School, London, has resigned because of tuition fees, cutbacks and bureaucracy. Sarah Burnett, a consultant radiologist at...
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Analysis: Plunged into poverty then pulled back out
Student support designed to aid access and cut dropout highlights a system failure, say critics. Claire Sanders reports in the second in our series on student poverty. "Some cases of student hardship...
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Managers get EQ adjustment
A key member of your staff has problems at home that are affecting her work. You try to resolve the issue but fail, relations break down and she accuses you of bullying. All hell breaks loose, and an...
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Welsh given £3.2m boost
The Welsh Assembly will provide higher education with a £3.2 million boost this year. The announcement by the assembly's lifelong learning minister, Jane Davidson, followed calls from the assembly...
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Whistleblowers: LJMU expands inquiry
External consultants have been brought in at Liverpool John Moores University's estates and facilities department after an internal inquiry into staff claims of mismanagement. The THES reported in...
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Tongue tied
Peter Lamont, research associate in Edinburgh University's Koestler parapsychology unit, gives a practical demonstration of 'The magic of India' during the Edinburgh International Science Festival....
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QMUC fights for Edinburgh campus site
Queen Margaret University College is battling to salvage its ambitious plans for a new campus after the local health trust quit negotiations over the site. QMUC, which the Lothian Primary Care NHS...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Having managed (somehow) to complete my thesis on the Spanish revolutionary syndicalist movement pre-1930s on time, I have waited the customary five months or so for the viva. Now I am making...