Languages slip from minor to major
Eight languages have lost the right to bid for minority subject funding because they are attracting too many students. Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Hebrew have all...
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Loan 'insult'
Douglas Trainer, president of the National Union of Students Scotland, has condemned the CBE awarded to Ronald Harrison, chief executive of the Student Loans Company, as "a sleazy insult." Mr Trainer...
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Aberdeen angst
Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University and one of about a dozen potential candidates for chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council quoted by headhunters Spencer Stuart, has...
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Journey by junk
(Photograph) - Journey by junk: John Stevenson, project director, left, and architect Jasper Jacob help Stephen Cox, Commonwealth Institute director general, play with his toy model of the institute'...
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Scots unions split on FE package
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally. The Scottish...
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Unions clash on mergers
A membership war between the two leading trade unions in higher education is set to explode unless a major disagreement over bargaining rights and recognition when smaller institutions merge with...
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Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris
(Photograph) - Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris. Last weekend 15,000 students from all over France crowded into the university to cross question a glittering array...
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Redundancy looms at Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths College is asking for voluntary staff redundancy to prepare for the next academic year, when the Higher Education Funding Council safety net which has protected it is withdrawn. Earlier...
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Funds row threatens space project
The British leader of a Europe-wide space project now under threat says that the United Kingdom will be reduced to "hang-ing onto people's coat tails" if problems in space research funding are not...
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Reluctance to `green' speaks volumes
The "greening" of the higher education curriculum is being resisted because it is seen as a form of political correctness although activists in other areas influence the curriculum unchallenged...
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Peer review found lacking
A Dutch study to be unveiled next week in London will propose a radical approach to defining and assessing research to address the changing relationship between science, technology and society. The...
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Pulling Power
(Photograph) - Pulling Power: Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the former Black Panther who hijacked a plane to escape an FBI shoot-to-kill order, was given a standing ovation when he spoke at the London School...
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Quarrels with a quarry
Religion is to be invoked in the fight against a superquarry on the Hebridean island of Harris. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology plans to argue about the integrity...
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Blueprint for a brighter future
Education is the most important thing of all. With it you can get a job and move up the social ladder." I heard these words spoken by Nadia, a sixth-former, when, as chair of the Commission on Social...
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Labour banks on credit rating
The commission states: "The challenge for the 21st century is to extend high standards to far more people." Changes in funding: "The present structure and funding of universities simply cannot cope...