English masters courses dropped
Exeter University is to drop two taught masters courses in English after they were rated unsatisfactory by quality assessors from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The rating was...
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Blair banks on loans
The Labour Party is planning a two-stage reform of student awards and loans. The party's education team, which met academics and union leaders for a policy-shaping seminar in Oxford this week, plans...
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Trunk call
(Photograph) - Liverpool University veterinary graduate Oliver Turner on his way to finishing his swim across the English Channel. Mr Turner, aged 24, took 12 hours and 33 minutes to complete the...
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Colleges on brink of insolvency
Fifty-eight colleges are expecting to face technical insolvency according to unpublished financial forecasts received by the Further Education Funding Council in March. A further 303 colleges - more...
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A breath of fresh air by a four-minute miler
If Andy Warhol was right that everyone is famous for 15 minutes, Roger Bannister might legitimately feel cheated. An eminent neurologist, co-author of a standard medical textbook and former Master of...
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Checkmate
The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project was the first UK/US/Bulgarian collaboration since the Second World War. It was led by academics from Cardiff and Berkeley and backed by the British Academy. It...
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Great expectations cannot be realised
It is a commonplace that revolutions happen when expectations rise and are then unmet. If this is so we may face some surprising frictions in the next few years. At the end of this month Demos will...
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Blindness in Gaza
I am just back from the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The first time I was there was in November 1992, on a fact-finding mission on behalf of the French university presidents. The...
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Just walk this American way
More loans, less grants mark sea change in Britain, writes Rupert Wilkinson. The British way of financing university students is getting more like the American one - less reliance on student grants,...
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TUC misled about Darwin's dad
Did David Triesman really tell the TUC conference that Darwin's father scraped a living as a poor country GP? If so he really should take more care to check his facts. Far from being a poor GP, Dr...
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Quality row hides cuts aim
When the diploma in art and design was taken over by the Council for National Academic Awards there was a regulation that art colleges/polytechnic faculties of art and design could admit up to 6 per...
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Double-take
Bahram Bekhradnia's speaks of the remarkable achievement of doubling the age-participation rate in higher education "funded entirely at public expense" (THES, September 15). Unfortunately it was not...
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Ethics of vivisection moving into focus
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...
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Language law gets stay of execution
Romania's ethnic minorities have won a one-year concession against the new education law which threatened to remove their right to take university entrance examinations in their own languages. In the...
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Modern English breaks stranglehold of Soviets
British cultural studies, a new trend in the teaching of English in Russian universities, is breathing life back into a language strangled under Soviet isolationism. In the years since the collapse...