Quality quango named
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council have set up an 11-member review group to advise on the future development of SHEFC's quality...
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New number for worried students
Students in distress will have immediate access to the Samaritans by remembering the new number - 0345 909090 - which was launched earlier this month. The number is designed to avoid delays by...
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Mongolia gets economic lesson
New generations of Mongolian economists are to be given the chance to study the economic model that they believe is most suitable for their country, with the help of advisers from the University of...
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Sheffield plans Malaysian college
Sheffield University has joined forces with the Malaysian government in a Pounds 20 million project to set up a new medical school in Malaysia to alleviate a serious shortage of doctors. John Padley...
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Ulster promotes peace on bomb site
A symbol of hope is to be created in a joint venture by the University of Ulster and Fermanagh district council near the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland troubles....
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Maths chairman attacks standards review equation
Christopher Robson, chairman of the London Mathematical Society's education committee, says he is disappointed by the School Curriculum Assessment Authority's reaction to a society report which says...
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Davies feels the quality on campus return
The concept of a change being as good as a rest gets a ringing endorsement from Graeme Davies, six weeks after his move from running the Higher Education Funding Council for England to become vice...
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Lifeline to a better life
Despite growing up in care Anna Young is at university. She tells Claire Sanders how education has transformed her. Anna Young was abandoned by her mother aged just two weeks. At 18 months she was...
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Probe sheds light on solar eruptions
Eruptions of gas from the sun, which disrupt power lines and navigation systems if they reach the earth, will be investigated by a solar observatory due for launch next Thursday. The joint European...
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Chemistry society joins lab buyers' consortium
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a major partner in a consortium chosen by the Department of Trade and Industry as the preferred buyer for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. Tom Inch,...
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Bosnia brain-drain appeal
British academics are to be asked to give money to help halt Bosnia's brain-drain. The appeal is the latest initiative of Academic Lifeline for Bosnia, set up by the World University Service, the two...
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Space cake
Here's hoping the British space budget stretches to financing proper fruit cakes with lots of alcohol in them rather than mean sponge cakes in rusty tins. Otherwise the cake baked to celebrate the...
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Lip service
(Photograph) - Lip service: City University dressed its students up as ears, lips and brains in this year's Lord Mayor's Show to celebrate the incorporation of St Bartholomew School of Nursing and...
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Quality codes launched
Concern over the quality of the student experience on offer in United Kingdom higher education institutions, and in overseas institutions with collaborative arrangements with the UK, has prompted two...
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Report rubbishes training schemes
Government training schemes, favoured by all political parties as a "motherhood and apple pie" solution to unemployment, are misguided and an "expensive way of doing very little" according to a...