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* Heriot-Watt University has been criticised by quality auditors for ambiguously playing-down its relationship with Israeli partner, Ramat-Gan College, and underestimating the need for quality...
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* Lowestoft College's Lee Nash (below) has won a Pounds 1,250 travel award for his entry to the Royal Society of Arts student design competition's postage stamp category. He was commended by judges...
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* Discounts for London students on buses and tubes has been extended to cover over-24s. From next September, all students in participating institutions, except those in work, will be entitled to a 30...
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* The government came under fire this week after it announced that it would appoint the first person to chair the new General Teaching Council for England. Education minister Baroness Blackstone...
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The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is planning to raise its grants to promote wider access from just over Pounds 7 million this academic year to almost Pounds 11 million in 1999-00. This...
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Ministers meeting in Brussels to decide on future programmes for the European Space Agency have agreed a science budget for the next four years that should send a British experiment to look for life...
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Skills get business blesing
* Employers rank skills as a vital element of competitiveness and are investing in staff training, according to a labour-market trends survey released this week by the Confederation of British...
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What is a Scottish-domiciled student?
If Scottish students no longer have to pay tuition fees, will a Highland holiday home win students from elsewhere in the UK a fee exemption? The answer appears to be no: everything points to...
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Colleges fear rush decision over Scottish fees
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood is free to determine its spending priorities within the Pounds 14 billion Scottish block of funds and has the power to abolish tuition fees. But there is...
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Should Scotland abolish fees?
"If fees are abolished in Scotland, it would turn a Scottish anomaly into a British absurdity." Andrew Pakes, president, National Union of Students "The whole reason our committee was appointed was...
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Lecturers seek firm salary structure
Further education lecturers have demanded a "substantial" pay increase and a firm national pay structure, writes Harriet Swain. Lecturers' union Natfhe, which met with employers yesterday, did not...
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Bosses condemn strike call
Employers have slammed strike action by lecturers in old universities as "inappropriate and untimely". Lecturers will walk out on May 25, heralding a summer of disruption to exams, admissions and...
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Pay delay as Bett committee holds on to report
The Bett committee on pay and conditions for university staff, which was supposed to report at the end of the month, is to hold another meeting, pushing back the expected publication date until June...
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Academe supplies nine MSPs
Nine out of the 129 MSPs are from further and higher education. Of the seven who won seats for Labour, six are women: Sarah Boyack, lecturer in town planning at Napier University; Rhona Brankin,...
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Revolution stirs in FE
College funding chiefs have sounded the death knell for further education as we know it with a call to scrap the Further Education Funding Council and to establish a single all-embracing lifelong...