Graduate wage packets are getting bigger
Average graduate starting salaries have risen to Pounds 17,400 as a quarter of graduate recruiters expect not to fill all slots, the Association of Graduate Recruiters said this week. Although an...
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Source of OST cash boost discovered
Cash for the Joint Infrastructure Fund, University Challenge Fund and Science Enterprise Challenge Fund accounts for the Office of Science and Technology's budget boost. The OST had said that its...
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Pounds 17 million pledged to help students write
Ministers have pledged Pounds 17 million to help schools and colleges prepare for the introduction of the new advanced level Key Skills qualification. The money, which comes in addition to the Pounds...
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Post-16 plans to be discussed in the House
MPs are to investigate the government's proposals for the funding and framework of post-16 education and training. The education and employment select committee's short inquiry will cover the...
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Masons pay Pounds 250,000 to fund university chair
Sheffield University has defended its controversial decision to accept money from the Freemasons to set up a chair and research centre for masonic studies. Last month The THES revealed that the...
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May the course be with you
The University of Glamorgan has launched a degree in science and science fiction. The course aims to entice its graduates into science jobs by appealing to them through analysis of science fiction...
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Unions want all to share pay rises
Pay proposals inspired by the Bett report will be unacceptable unless they involve substantial salary rises for all grades of staff, lecturers' unions agreed this week. In a joint statement, the...
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Incomes in higher education rising
Income for higher education institutions has risen more than 20 times the real-terms increase in staff salaries, the AUT claims. An AUT analysis of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency...
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Disaffection rules as Chatham House reorganises
George Joffe, whose acrimonious departure from his post as deputy director of Chatham House highlighted divisions in the foreign affairs institute, this week disclosed his blueprint for its future,...
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Liquid refreshment
(Photograph) - Stirling University student Myles MacKintosh takes a farewell dip in the university pool, which is to be replaced by a six-lane, 50-metre Olympic length pool. Stirling is to house a...
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Access to be Scots' top priority
Scottish funding chiefs are on the brink of a radical reform of the university funding system amid fears that English institutions are neglecting lifelong learning in pursuit of research cash. The...
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Unis acknowledge NVQ role
Vocational training programmes in universities now have a representative body. The University Vocational Awards Council, which met for the first time earlier this month, is designed to respond to...
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Toronto
A small majority of Canadians say specialised vocational colleges are more useful to young people than a broad-based university degree. An Angus Reid survey of 1,515 people also found that two-thirds...
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FE told to back off HE provision
The government said this week that it wants further education colleges to refocus provision on training because they have skewed their educational mission in favour of higher education. The...
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Colleges' debts rise fourfold in five years
Debt levels in further education have quadrupled in the past five years, a financial analysis of the sector reveals. Noble's Further Education Financial Yearbook, to be published next week, shows...