Don's Diary
Monday Up early in a cold sweat. Today's the day Angel FM goes on air, broadcasting my students' work live to north London. They've had endless lessons in how not to commit libel, and strict...
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Far right spreads racism in France
Since the 1980s France has undergone a number of changes that have triggered a major identity crisis. On the one hand, unemployment and the inability of the state to deal with it; on the other, the...
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The fixed-term licence for bullies
Fixed-term contracts have been part of the university system for decades. Properly used they will always have a place. Unfortunately, universities are no longer the experts on fixed-term contracts....
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Swansea's flowerpot men
Everything in the university garden is still rosy, says Ted Nield. Shame about the rest of the estate Some of the happiest moments of my undergraduate life that were not spent in the Victoria Arms...
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That taste for luxury
Well-heeled executives are feeding the coffers of Britain's booming business schools. Francis Beckett investigates The rest of higher education may be feeling the pinch, but business schools are...
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Cash to support Asian students
The government and the British Council have announced details of a one-year scholarship scheme to support students affected by the Asia currency crisis. Universities and colleges have been given...
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European Union's Erasmus/Socrates project
Students who study a full year in Europe under the European Union's Erasmus/Socrates project will be spared tuition fees for that year, education minister Baroness Blackstone confirmed this week. She...
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Turkey shoots for lower UK fees
AMID Turkish anger at being rebuffed by the European Union, the country's university authority, YOK, is negotiating with United Kingdom universities to cut fees for Turkish students. Kemal Guruz, YOK...
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Turkey's military call for legal restrictions to halt studying in Islamic countries
Turkey's military this week called for legal restrictions to halt Turkish students studying in Islamic countries. The demand follows YOK's decision late last year to stop recognising degrees awarded...
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UFI to get few public funds
The government will fund less than half of the start-up costs of its flagship University for Industry, ministers confirmed this week. And question marks remain over its long-term funding. Launching...
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University titles get review
The Quality Assurance Agency will look into unconventional uses of the title "university" by the University for Industry and British Aerospace's "virtual university" as part of a review for the...
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Universities could face annual shortfall warns NUS
Universities could face an annual shortfall of up to Pounds 31 million through parents not supporting their children's education, NUS has warned. Its figures are based on estimates of parents'...
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Child benefit 'transfer' call
The Treasury should transfer Pounds 600 million from the social security budget into direct support for college students, the government's advisory group for further education student support will...
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Education department attacked for failure to predict growth in further education
MPs attacked education department permanent secretary Michael Bichard for his department's "disgraceful" failure to predict growth in further education. At a meeting of the Public Accounts Select...
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Performing arts students from New College, Durham
(Photograph) - Double take: Performing arts students from New College, Durham, rehearse Bertolt Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, which they performed last weekend at the Newcastle...