Lib-Dems rethink policies
LIBERAL Democrats are to recast their post-compulsory education policy, with strong indications that the model provided by Helena Kennedy QC's report on further education will be more influential...
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Tories ready for grants fray
CONSERVATIVES are set to attack the government for its planned abolition of student maintenance grants when legislation on higher education funding is introduced in the Commons next session. The move...
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Conservative Students fringe meeting
* At a fringe meeting of Conservative Students, national chairman Gavin Williamson, launched a campaign to recruit members. Mr Williamson said the NUS had mishandled the tuition fees issue, and acted...
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Personal savings bank for learning
PLANS for all students to pay for education through individual lifelong learning accounts are under government scrutiny. Advisers working closely with the Department for Education and Employment and...
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Reds in the flower bed
Does the boyish exterior of shadow education and employment spokesman Stephen Dorrell conceal an enthusiasm for the ideas of the late Chairman Mao? Speaking on Conservative education policy in...
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Nocturnal activities
So it is goodbye to the Conservative Graduates Association. Not, as some might maliciously suggest, because there are none left, but because the party reorganisation plans unveiled this week suggest...
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Go east young man
While some papers resound with stories of ex-ministers still looking for work, there is evidence that having worked for the last government is not automatic death in the job market. Conservative...
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Slippery circumstances
The alternative Dearing report? The Big Issue in Scotland has produced a special student guide that includes the low-down from an unnamed "leading tutor at one of Scotland's universities". It begins...
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Moving on up
"Power off. Leaving network." After the election Bryan Davies, once favourite to become higher education minister, said he felt like the message his mobile phone displays at the end of a call....
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Missing in action
Sad goodbyes this week to Peter North, replaced by Colin Lucas of Balliol as Oxford University's vice chancellor. But what of the long-awaited North report?Its whereabouts remain unclear, as North...
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Going down
Glasgow Caledonian University, under investigation following allegations of mismanagement, seems set to drop in at least one league table. Its former principal, Stan Mason, who has just been fired...
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Hard lives
This week's alumni to be proud of, numbers 140 and 141, are living proof that we may have overestimated the cultural effects of education. Norman Tebbit, became a pilot, trade union activist and...
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Durham calls for the doctor
DURHAM University has appointed the chief medical officer, Sir Kenneth Calman, to take over as vice chancellor next year following the retirement ofEvelyn Ebsworth, writes Alison Utley. Sir Kenneth,...
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Group has good chemistry
THE GROUP implementing the new concordat to improve career management for university contract research staff identified key themes for investigation when it met for the first time this week. Sir...
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Skylight
(Photograph) - Artist Kyffin Williams (left), with principal Derek Llwyd Morgan, launch a year-long celebration of 125 years of higher education at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The launch...