A parental figure when you leave home
Tom Hodgkinson, 21, third-year maths,Glasgow University Everyone needs a personal tutor. They are the parental figure you need when you move away from home, someone you can turn to when you get into...
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By George, they've got it
A mannequin is at the centre of a pioneering computer-aided nurse teaching pilot. Olga Wojtas reports George Morgan, 22, has been taken by ambulance to accident and emergency after being found...
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Comfort in that personal touch
Nicky Stanley and Jill Manthorpe argue that the one-to-one relationship of student and tutor needs to be cultivated and not pruned because of pressures The role of personal tutor can be a thankless...
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Tory axe hovers over parent-student bond
Alan Thomson reports from the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Different levels of university tuition fees are just one of the proposals that may emerge from Tim Boswell's further and...
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Skeleton staff
(Photograph) - Skeleton staff: the first fast-track medical students - graduates who want to become doctors - began their four-year course at the University of Leicester this week. The course is one...
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Cold war front
I too was a GDR sympathiser. I visited the country regularly, fell passionately in love with an active Communist Party member, worked closely with the brother of Che Guevara's girlfriend - yet still...
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May sees sence in divide and provide
Alan Thomson reports from the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. The Conservative Party may propose restructuring the university sector along specialist academic or vocational lines as part...
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Athletic university is a record breaker
Loughborough University is celebrating research grants and contracts worth nearly Pounds 22 million awarded to its 23 departments over the past 12 months. The total breaks the university's record set...
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Costs thwart broader access
Members of groups that are under-represented in full-time higher education are turning away from study, according to analysis by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The turnabout...
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Enrolment tops two million
More than two million people enrolled in higher education in the 1997-98 academic year, according to figures from the Higher Education Satistics Agency. The sector had an academic workforce of 128,...
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Irish conference talks about widening access
Greater cooperation between the higher education systems north and south of the Irish border was a theme discussed at a conference in Dublin yesterday. It was organised jointly by the Universities...
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Students back rector who led racist singsong
Students at St Andrews University have called on today's senate meeting to support the award of an honorary degree to the student-elected rector, Donald Findlay QC (pictured). Some senate members...
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Student, 20, expelled after indecent assault
St Andrews University has expelled a male student convicted of indecently assaulting a female student in her hall of residence room. A university spokeswoman confirmed that modern history student...
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Disabled dons lobby DFEE for cash carrots
A group of disabled academics took their campaign for reform in higher education to the Department for Education and Employment this week. The group, led by Cedric Pugh of Sheffield Hallam University...
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Natfhe threatens strike over redundancies
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to ballot on strike action at two colleges that are facing redundancies. This week Chester College's Natfhe branch voted to ballot for a strike, just days after the branch...