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RECENT research into drug use among European teenagers revealed that Scottish levels were the highest in Europe. Evidence from Edinburgh University suggests that this trend may continue into Scottish...
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New Deal cash fillip
FURTHER education colleges will share in a Pounds 100 million or more new year windfall as the government delivers its New Deal pledge for the unemployed. The government started 12 New Deal...
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Education Action Zones
Colleges and a range of other public and private organisations have been invited to bid for the first five new Education Action Zones, worth at least an extra Pounds 500,000 a year. The action zones...
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Grants
continued. University of Liverpool Professor C. Hart, Pounds 57,6 from Johanne Holly Meningitis Fund (pathogenesis and treatment of meningococcal disease) and Pounds 58,410 from Wellcome Trust (...
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New Year Honours
Life Peers Sir Frederick Edward Robin Butler, secretary of the cabinet and head of the Civil Service; Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, chairman, National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education....
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Lobby for new-look census
Geographers met for their annual conference in Surrey this week, The THES reports. God has lost to Mammon in academics' priorities for questions in the 2001 population census. Philip Rees of Leeds...
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Bond loses battle for land
AFTER a near ten-year fight for survival, the future of Australia's first private university is again uncertain. Bond University was established on the Queensland coast in 1989 by now-bankrupt and...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 is available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who...
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Call for twin quality watchdog
COLLEGES should adopt the same quality assurance regime as schools, Sir Robert Gunn, chairman of the Further Education Funding Council, has told the government. Sir Robert has urged education...
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Wellcome Trust raises infrastructure grants
The Wellcome Trust is raising by more than 30 per cent the amount it ringfences for spending on research infrastructure and equipment in universities and institutes in the United Kingdom despite its...
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Europe aims to match degree quality data
The European Union council is aiming to agree on quality assurance in higher education this year to aid the movement of students and academics across Europe. There will be no common European standard...
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MPs probe into educational access
MPs are to investigate access to education in the light of Sir Ron Dearing's report and government plans to change student funding and introduce tuition fees. The education and employment select...
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SNP calls for equal student treatment
THE Scottish National Party says it would cost the government at most only Pounds 250,000 a year to end the anomaly whereby English, Welsh and Northern Irish students will pay more to study in...
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Warning against New Zealand 'Lego'
Britain should learn from the mistakes New Zealand has made in modularising qualifications for 16 to 19-year-old education, says Alan Smithers, director of Brunel University's centre for education...
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Private finance for London hospital merger
One of the largest estate deals involving the private sector in higher education has been struck with London's King's College and the United Medical and Dental School of Guys and St Thomas's...