Customer pays price for rising costs
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire University this week. See research papers. Companies tend to raise prices when their costs go up, not when...
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New-style degrees get convert
The first signs of a consensus over abolishing traditional degree classifications may have been seen at last week's quality conference staged by Goldsmiths College. Calls for a review and possible...
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Phoenix focuses space hopes
Space scientists are expected to learn next week whether their dreams of relaunching the ill-fated Cluster mission, which came to an abrupt end last June, will come true. Nine months after the rocket...
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Bring FE into the fold, urges NUS
Students have pledged their support for Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into the future of higher education, but want more of a voice for further education. More than 1,500 delegates at the annual...
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Tory MPs angry at Welsh funding plan
A House of Commons committee with a Conservative majority has criticised the funding of further education in Wales. The Welsh Affairs committee, in a report issued this week, said the Government...
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Graduates 'too good for the job'
MORE THAN a third of graduates in the United Kingdom are "over educated" and expansionist higher education policies should be checked, a team of economists argued this week. Peter Dolton and Anna...
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Moray rejects merger talks call
MORAY House Institute of Education has angrily rejected a call from its estranged partner, Heriot-Watt University, to be involved in talks about its future. Moray House has been an associated college...
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Lecturers withhold marks in temp war
Legislation to tackle the problem of Spain's army of temporary contract lecturers could be on the statute book by the end of the academic year. Possibilities include creating a new body of permanent...
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Soros head expelled from Minsk
The director of the Soros Foundation's office in Belarus was expelled from the country last week. According to the information bureau of the presidential administration, Peter Byrne, an American, had...
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Correction
Last week's article "Bullies in the common room" (page 6) said that staff at Staffordshire University had been surveyed and bullying found. In fact the survey asked part-time students about bullying...
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Hug of love
(Photograph) - Hug of love: student clutches a sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art, which is exhibiting work from the first five-years of its technical arts degree course at the Lyttelton, London...
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Fact file
Of first-degree new entrants, 93.1 per cent were studying on a full-time or sandwich basis. 51.2 per cent of first-degree new entrants were female. 44.8 per cent of students aged under 21 were living...
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What war can be good for
Next week the funding debate is set to dominate the 75th conference of the National Union of Students. Harriet Swain looks at the battles fought on floor and platform The year is 1968: the National...
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Scotland's boost for Labour
Opposition to the Labour leadership of the National Union of Students Scotland proved ineffectual at its conference last week. Student associations at Perth College, Glasgow Caledonian and Paisley...
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NI student support lost to buildings
Student leaders in Northern Ireland have condemned the Government for transferring unexpected savings of Pounds 1.8 million from the student support budget to the maintenance budget for schools and...