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Higher Education

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Higher Education: Gotta stay high »

Higher Education

I am always interested to hear of the latest way business has come up with to avoid their responsibilities towards students and graduates. Often we hear business representatives announcing extreme positions on how to pay for our university system. The ...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Kainde Manji | Read more »

Fewer Scots going into higher education »

Claire Baker 2

Shadow Education Minister Claire Baker has blamed the SNP government for a meagre rise in Scottish university students and called for a review of the sector. Higher Education Statistics Agency figures show that in 2008/09 the number of English student...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Tony Garner | Read more »

NUS Scotland warns of Mandelson's two year-degree danger »

NUS Scotland warns of Mandelson's two year-degree danger

The National Union of Students (NUS) has warned Scottish universities may be forced to introduce 'fast-track degrees', following Peter Mandelson's heavily criticised calls for two-year study programmes for universities in England. English universities...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Laura McCaffrey | Read more »

New UCU strikes target London university »

New UCU strikes target London university

A leading teaching union has launched a protest campaign after the University of the Arts in London announced job cuts. Last week's protest was part of the University and College Union's (UCU) UK-wide 'Defend Jobs, Defend Education' campaign to preven...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Naomi Kennedy | Read more »

SNP breaks student loans promise »

Pounds

The SNP government in Holyrood has again failed to fulfil a major election promise to tackle student debt made in the run up to the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections. A consultation paper—published in December—that addresses the Scotti...

Mon 12 Jan 2009 by Ben Judge | Read more »

Staff and students lash out at unrepresentative education taskforce »

Education Secretary, Fiona Hyslop

The final report of the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on university funding has met with widespread condemnation from students and staff across Scotland. Following the interim report published this summer, student associations and the University and...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Guy Roberston | Read more »

Students getting dumber, degrees getting easier, research getting weirder »

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New research has found that academics are under pressure to award students higher marks, and that plagiarism is rife in universities. 34 per cent of academics questioned felt that 'dumbing down' reports are correct, while 82 per cent felt that lack of...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Rob Church-Taylor | Read more »

"Father of QMU" retires »

Professor Anthony Cohen CBE, principal of Queen Margaret University (QMU) has announced he is to retire at the end of this academic year.Professor Cohen will relinquish his position in the summer of 2009. His departure follows six years at the head of...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Kevin Guyan | Read more »

"Too many universities," says new higher education minister »

"Too many UK universities"

The new minster of state for higher education, David Lammy has warned that, in order to survive and prosper, universities will need to consider mergers and seek less conventional sources of funding.His remarks come on the back of the revelation that 12...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Liam Martin | Read more »

Studying abroad increases employability »

The EU

Graduates who have studied overseas as part of their degree are more employable in today's global job market, according to a recent study carried out by the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE).The report, entitled Global Horizons and the R...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Laura Robertson | Read more »

Conservatives pledge to support vocations »

The Conservative party has pledged to create a scheme which will introduce bursaries to move students from apprenticeships into higher education. The policy will create up to 1,200 university places for vocational subjects like science and engineering,...

Tue 14 Oct 2008 by Michael Fern | Read more »

Democratic principals »

Charles Kennedy

A curious alchemy is bringing the cutting edge of modern Scottish educational thinking into contact with one of its most distinctive and historic features. The Scottish government’s Higher Education Task Force—a gathering of the educational...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Charles Kennedy | Read more »

Degree values: a middle way »

Aficionados of Sir Walter Scott’s novels will recall, in Waverley, the eponymous hero’s fraught journey up into the North of Scotland. Seduced by an impossibly romanticised view of the Highlanders, and a frustration with a seemingly intract...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 | Read more »

Mental health pilot to be trialed by NHS Lothian »

Depression

Students across Edinburgh are to benefit from the introduction of a pilot mental health trainer post for NHS Lothian. The Waller Mental Health Trainer will work with university and college staff and students’ organisations to raise awareness of ...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Jasper Jackson | Read more »

Cambridge announces further changes to admissions process »

Less than half of all school students currently take a GCSE in a foreign language

From 2009, Cambridge University will no longer insist that applicants have a foreign language GCSE in a bid to attract more pupils from state schools. The move was announced only a month after the university took the decision to scrap its separate appl...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Saudi 'Freedom University' breaks new ground »

Saudi Arabia's 'freedom university'

That the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is to be positioned on a remote, reclaimed peninsular and segregated from the rest of Saudi Arabia comes as no surprise. The institution will be a cultural anomaly within wider Saudi society, ...

Tue 26 Feb 2008 by Hamish Fergusson | Read more »

Education Minister undermines NUS »

National Union of Students

England's Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell, stressed the importance of confronting extremism through open debate in a lecture delivered on Tuesday 27 November.Mr Rammell addressed the Fabian Society in London, criticising the National Union of S...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

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