Halfway house to entry rejig?

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A new two-step university admissions system could be introduced in the UK as a transitional phase between the current system, which relies on predicted exam results, and a full-blown post-qualifications system, according to Steven Schwartz, chair of the Government's "Admissions to Higher Education Report". Schwartz notes that while a two-stage system, which would still rely on predicted exam results but which would not make offers of places until grades are actually known, would not be ideal but could be used as a transitional stage.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Organizational history, Colleges and universities, Universities and colleges, College admissions, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company organization, Educational aspects, Schwartz, Steven (American lawyer), Educational reform

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The people's librarian

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Brewster Kahle, e-pioneer, is attempting to encourage libraries to expand access to unpublished academic material by using the power of the Internet. Kahle, who has already attempted to turn the Internet into a library through the formation in 1996 of the Internet Archive, a database containing more text than all the works in the US Library of Congress, is now holding talks with members of the Digital Preservation Coalition in an attempt to develop a way of preserving material that gets published online but often nowhere else.

Product development, Online database, Online databases, Kahle, Brewster

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Vet who can make a dog's life a bit more bearable

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A profile of Danny Mills, holder of the UK's first chair in veterinary behavioural medicine, at Lincoln University. Mills, who has been incorrectly called a professor of animal psychiatry by one newspaper in the UK, sees his job as finding novel solutions to stress-related conditions in animals, especially animals such as dogs, cats and horses.

Personal narratives, Personality profile, Veterinary medicine, Aims and objectives, Mills, Danny

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