Students fail to repay emergency loans
* Students owe universities thousands of pounds in emergency loans made to tide them over until their Student Loans Company cheques arrived last term. At Staffordshire University some 150 students...
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Colleges stick to 3% staff pay rises
* Three-quarters of colleges awarded staff a pay rise of 3 per cent or more last year, according to an Association of Colleges survey. It found that "almost" nine in ten colleges made a pay award for...
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Potter makes Pounds 65m from Psion share sale
(Photograph) - * David Potter (above), chairman of Psion, has sold just over 1 per cent of his shares in the company for more than Pounds 65 million. He still owns 14 per cent. Dr Potter left...
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Leeds gets tough on lecturer's race speech
* Frank Ellis, the Leeds University academic due to address an extreme right conference in the United States, has been denied leave to attend. Dr Ellis, a Russian and Slavonic studies lecturer, was...
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Over-25s plump for vocational study
* Most students taking vocational courses in Scotland's 47 further education colleges are 25 and over, according to figures from the Scottish Further Education Funding Council. The number of...
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TGWU puts in claim for Pounds 5 an hour
* The first group of support staff to submit a claim in this year's pay round has asked for a minimum Pounds 5 an hour and a shorter working week. The Transport and General Workers Union, which...
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Business student loses damages claim
* A former mature student who blamed the University of North-umbria after she failed her degree has lost her claim for Pounds 20,000 in damages. Sue Finch, aged 46, who spent a year studying for a...
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The great unwashed dip into soap suds
* Students have cleaned up their shabby, unwashed image, according to a Visa Cash survey, which claims that today's students do at least two loads of laundry a week. While 20 per cent of male...
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Single-sex college sticks to women
* Women students at the University of Durham's only single-sex college, St Mary's, protested this week over management talks on making the college mixed. The university senate decided on Tuesday to...
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Scientists look into vacuums in space
* Scientists from a United Kingdom-led consortium of universities are planning to explore the "inner space" of vacuums with a probe in orbit around the Earth. The Casimir mission would seek to...
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Kingston student released on bail
* Kingston University student Julie-Ann Davies, a supporter of renegade M15 officer David Shayler who was questioned over an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act, has been released on police...
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Full-time MBAs earn most
* MBA graduates from part-time and distance-learning courses outnumber those on full-time courses, the Association of MBAs reports. But students on two-year full-time courses command higher salaries...
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Backing up backs
The Royal Military College of Science, part of Cranfield University, has developed an artificial neural network that can accurately diagnose lower back pain complaints from a given set of symptoms....
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Milan's bargain course
The Milan Polytechnic, one of Italy's top engineering schools, is preparing a three-year degree course in information technology engineering that will operate almost entirely via the internet. This...
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Web business training
Wide Learning, a financial training specialist, has launched a suite of web-based courses in corporate finance and banking for use on undergraduate programmes and work-based learning schemes. The...