Disease stalks students
STUDENTS at old universities are more than twice as likely to contract potentially deadly meningococcal diseases than non-students in the same age group, a survey has found. In the week that two...
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Funding for medical schools is slashed
MILLIONS of pounds have been cut from the budgets of several medical schools that failed to score top grades or make significant improvements in last year's research assessment exercise. They now...
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Expert warning on cyber security
UNIVERSITIES must take steps to stop snooping of communication via the Joint Academic Network (Janet)and email, say information technology experts studying electronic security at British universities...
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New life of Bryan
(Photograph) - New life of Bryan: Labour's former further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies took his seat in the House of Lords this week, becoming Lord Davies of Oldham
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Hot point
(Photograph) - Hot point: Middlesex University's traditional Chinese medicine course, the first accredited course of its kind outside China, began this term and has attracted students from all over...
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Fact file
* 60 per cent of eligible students in England took out a student loan, compared to 55 per cent the previous year * 55 per cent of eligible students in Scotland took out a student loan, compared to 49...
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Bolton faces university hurdle
BOLTON Institute is poised to become a university following approval by quality watchdogs. Members of the degree-awarding powers committee of the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education gave...
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HEFCE urges restraint on cuts
MINISTERS must keep higher education cuts down to 1 per cent in future years, say funding chiefs. Anything more would have "unacceptable implications for quality and standards". Responding to Dearing...
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Fees win sighted
OXFORD and Cambridge universities may have won their battle to keep much of the additional Pounds 35 million they receive through college fees. Cambridge vice chancellor Alex Broers said this week: "...
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On the ball
(Photograph) - On the ball: the first cohort of students on Liverpool University's masters in business administration degree dealing with football, visit Anfield. Brian Hall, the club's public...
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Christmas decision for Royal Observatory
A final decision on the future of the Royal Greenwich Observatory will be made before Christmas, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council says. Its council will decide whether it can...
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UK Nobel surprize
(Photograph) - A BRITISH scientist is the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This is the second year in which Britain has won it. John Walker, aged 56, pictured above, a senior scientist...
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Drastic fall in numbers
APPLICATIONS to universities for 1998 are down 16 per cent compared to this time last year. This will be the first year in which fees will be charged and maintenance grants will start to be phased...
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Minister's vision
A DECLINE in the proportion of students studying science and engineering at British universities in the future is inevitable according to Tessa Blackstone, minister for higher education, who adds...
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Myth of urban drop-out
Myths about "drop-outs" from council housing estates must be exploded if the government's lifelong learning revolution is to succeed, the Further Education Development Agency has warned. FEDA...