Labour is accused of top-up plan
Conservatives suspect that a secret government plan to allow higher university tuition fees is behind the delay in announcing higher education money for year three of its spending review. Shadow...
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NI budget allocation to increase by 6%
Sean Farren, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, training and employment, has announced that his department's spending will rise by 5.9 per cent next year to £543....
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University tends train crash survivors
Uninjured survivors from the Hertfordshire train crash were ferried to the University of Hertfordshire's conference centre this week, where university staff looked after them while they recovered....
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Bretton Hall merger is still on
The University of Leeds this week denied rumours that plans to merge with nearby Bretton Hall College in Wakefield have collapsed. The merger is still scheduled to go ahead pending the outcome of a...
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First for musician blowin' in the wind
Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Larry Adler inspired the first person in Britain to collect a degree for harmonica playing. Steve Lockwood, 33, who gained a 2:1 at Anglia Polytechnic, is now...
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King's arms are wide open
King's College, Cambridge, is the university's most socially inclusive. It takes almost 80 per cent of its students from state schools. The university's first "league table" of...
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Cambridge tackles ethics code after Vodafone row
Cambridge University is drawing up ethical guidelines for its business affairs after protests over controversial financial and commercial deals. The governing council is setting up a working party to...
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Degree is short of European standard
The title of the new foundation degree has been called into question because it breaks European qualification rules in the Bologna declaration. Universities and colleges will be forced to make it...
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Research councils launch e-application software
Britain's academic community will be able to complete and submit research proposals electronically over the internet within the next month. But only one of the four research councils involved in the...
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Sainsbury bolsters morale at Daresbury
Confidence is growing at Cheshire's Daresbury Laboratory after the allocation of £26.2 million to science projects in the northwest of England. Daresbury will have some involvement with six...
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Enigma variations
(Photograph) - Enigma variations: artist Simon Patterson with his mural Enigma 312, based on the keyboard and ratchets of the famous codebreaking machine. The mural is on show at Royal Holloway,...
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Staff concerns grow over planned Birmingham merger
Support staff have joined academics and students in raising concerns over merger talks between Birmingham and Aston universities, which started today. Members of Birmingham University's joint union...
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Data not up to the rigours of ranking
High dropout rates should not be used to judge universities and colleges because the data on which this performance indicator is based are insufficient. This was the view presented by economist Robin...
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McLeish set to take over
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is widely tipped to succeed Donald Dewar as Scotland's first minister. A meeting of the Labour Party's MSPs and Scottish...
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Rise puts FEFC chief far ahead of troops
A bumper 8.3 per cent pay rise for funding chief Sir Brian Fender lifted his salary to £144,000 in 1999-2000. He earned more than twice as much money as anyone else on his staff except one...