NVQs guided back on course
The council charged with introducing national vocational qualifications has introduced heavily revised guidelines as a response to Government calls "to get NVQs right". John Hillier, chief executive...
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Drop-out rates on rise
The first hard evidence of growing drop-out rates is emerging from Higher Education Funding Council for England statistics. HEFCE statisticians are working on institutional returns as the council...
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Row over College of Law tie
The Law Society is taking a fresh look at its links with the College of Law in London after an academic threatened to complain about their "special relationship" to the Office of Fair Trading. Law...
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Light relief
A new question, posed by Andrea Nolan of Glasgow University's veterinary medicine faculty: how many academics does it take to decide who will change a light bulb? Dr Nolan reports in the staff...
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Juggle muddle
What does the title "Juggling for a degree" bring to mind? Why, a degree in juggling, of course. After publishing a book so named last year, Lancaster University's innovation in higher education unit...
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Three-sided view
"Reading in Triangles" is the title of an inaugural lecture next week at the university of the same name next week. But before readers ask how many are eternal, they should know that Naomi Segal,...
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Me old, old china
The sort of academic who forces us to question our very origins has struck again, this time at the root of the North Staffordshire pottery industry. Rodney Hampson, research fellow at Keele...
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Bored stiff
So who says being a student union president can make you sick with boredom? Lucy Chothia, union president at Imperial College, denied the suggestion when she was interviewed by student newspaper...
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Wellcome's sale boosts balances
Medical research funding could swell by Pounds 60 million a year if the Wellcome Trust's sale of its shares in the Wellcome drug company to Glaxo goes ahead. Trust funding could reach that of the...
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Beauty and beast
(Photograph) - Beauty and beast: Aberdeen University is to create a database of mediaeval images from the Aberdeen Bestiary, an illuminated manuscript dating from around 1200, supported by a Pounds...
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Labs face high safety costs
New safety rules could mean heavy fines for laboratories which fail to notify the Government that they are starting work with natural infectious agents. The rules, which came into force last week,...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
It was characteristically generous of Peter Knight (THES, January 13) to acknowledge, as we have been reassuring him for three years, that the Higher Education Funding Council for England's funding...
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Donkey swan dives into funding puddle
As a rule, to which Steve Jones (THES, January 13) is an honourable exception, admitting failure is not done. It scarcely matters whether, as John Krebs suggests in last week's THES, this failure is...
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Small is perfect for expertise
Should research funding be confined to a few large universities? A number of vice chancellors believe so. Derek Roberts, the provost of University College, says that the number of designated research...
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Mission impossible begs big answers
Survival is not guaranteed in the college sector any more. There are known to have been at-risk lists in higher education for well over a decade. Indeed last week the Public Accounts Committee was...