Engineering a point
The Engineering Council's plans to use the A-level points score system to raise entry requirements for engineering courses have been criticised by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service....
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Just the ticket
Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts has selected Venuemaster from Synchro Systems Ltd as the new computerised arts marketing system for its BA performing arts degree. The system will be used...
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Cybercops learn how to hack systems
Students at one small American university are studying the art of computer hacking and other electronic crimes. Not how to commit them. How to prevent them. The graduate programme in justice...
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Newbattle wins financial support
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college, has won Scottish Office funding of Pounds 250,000 to support 50 residential places for diploma students for each of the next three...
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Financial crisis looms despite fees and loans
The introduction of fees and the privatisation of student loans will not solve a multi-billion pound financial crisis in higher education, vice-chancellors have warned the government. Quality will...
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Music funds out of tune
TEACHING standards at music colleges are at risk if the present "under-funded status quo" persists, says a report out this week. A review commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Debt sale to cost Pounds 350m
THE SALE of Pounds 1 billion of student debt to NatWest bank will cost the government about Pounds 350 million in subsidies at present net values, higher education minister Tessa Blackstone told MPs...
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Dons find devil in the details
OXFORD University dons met in closed session this week to discuss Sir Peter North's commission of inquiry into their future, writes Harriet Swain. More than 100 academics took part in a debate...
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Masonic secrecy under fire
CALLS for the compulsory declaration of Freemasonry membership in higher education were stepped up this week, as campaigners said that quasi-judicial university bodies should fall under the...
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Perfectly formed
Nothing is being left to chance at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It issues applicants for its aptly-named research fellowships with an equal opportunities form asking for...
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Open season on grants
Meanwhile the success of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and others at upping the percentage of grant applications (they abolished the application dates - having no...
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Funding foresight
In this spirit, we are glad to report that education and employment secretary David Blunkett and Tony Blair, the prime minister, have won well-deserved praise from vice-chancellors for their shrewd...
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Canny credit
Universities still have a lot to learn about raising external funds. The overwhelming majority, for example, seem to think that because they are public bodies, outsiders should have free access to...
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Good vibrations
No wonder half of the nation's four million students went on strike last week if events at Leicester were at all typical. Not only were the protesters treated to a rousing speech by NUS national...
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Boxing clever
The AUT's general secretary, David Triesman, was clearly prepared to help his Scottish colleagues navigate their way through the procedural intricacies of the AUT Scottish council at Aberdeen...