Medics to rise by 1,000
ABOUT 1,000 extra places will be created for medical students each year from 2005 - a 20 per cent increase on present levels - the government has announced. But academics are warning that quality...
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Young doctors scrap rote
THE University of Manchester medical school has come up with a radical solution to curriculum overload, writes Alison Utley. It has decided to abandon big lectures, and replace them with problem-...
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Research is bad for you
Seen on the front of a box of research application forms at an unnamed university last week was the following advice: "HEALTH WARNING: Researching can damage your health. Most vice-chancellors don't...
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Fact file
The Further Education Funding Council's figures for 1996-97 reveal that: * enrolments to council-funded further education courses increased by 16 per cent to 3.1 million * part-time numbers were up...
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Lifelong task
(Photograph) - George Mudie, a former trade union official and deputy chief whip, emerged as the new lifelong learning minister in the government's reshuffle this week. Lord Sainsbury was the...
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Print centre grant comes to college's rescue
CASH-STRAPPED Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. is to receive a Pounds 650,000 grant from the Department for Education and Employment to establish a centre of information and high technology...
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Class of 63 in mass campus exodus
ACADEMICS are retiring in droves while student numbers are rising, it emerged this week. Latest figures from the Higher Education Statistical Agency show the number of posts falling vacant as a...
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Pounds 30m prize in subject contest
UNIVERSITIES are to compete for a share of Pounds 30 million to set up centres of teaching expertise. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is to invite bids for centres in each subject...
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Fees millions will go towards bigger student loans
About Pounds 130 million, equivalent to more than half the fees to be paid by students towards their education next year, will have to go to pay forbigger student loans, the government confirmed this...
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Colleges girded for cash transfer battle
HIGHER and further education are locked in a battle for cash over plans to expand the number of sub-degree courses taught in colleges. The government is preparing to transfer money from the Further...
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Councils let off on research cost
RESEARCH councils will not have to bear the full indirect costs of their research projects in a move that rejects advice from the Dearing report and the House of Commons committee on science and...
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Cash query over University for Industry
THE CHIEF executive of the University for Industry's transition team admitted this week that he had no idea how much the government's flagship lifelong learning project would cost or who would pay. "...
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Colleges assure MPs they are against sleaze
THE Association of Colleges is campaigning to convince MPs that colleges are committed to stamping out sleaze, but it rejects a government call to cut the number of business representatives on...
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Pay for training revolution, TUC tells business
EMPLOYERS must invest more in training if the government's vision of a learning revolution is to be realised, the Trades Union Congress has warned. In its response to the Learning Age consultation,...
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Scottish fee anomaly review chief appointed
FORMER Dearing committee member Sir George Quigley will head an independent review of the government's Scottish tuition fees policy that led to defeats in the House of Lords during the passage of the...