PQA 'must be in place for 2008'

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A special panel convened by the Secondary Heads' Association in the United Kingdom is to recommend that a new, two-stage system of post-qualification university applications, based on the results achieved at A-level, be introduced for the 2008 intake. The panel is to make its recommendation after coming to the conclusion that the current system is inefficient, inequitable and educationally unsound.

United Kingdom, College applications

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Law schools in dock over race

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Law schools are less likely to offer places to candidates from some ethnic minorities than other university faculties, according to a report produced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The report recommended that, in order to prevent any potential racial bias, candidates' names should be withheld from universities, and especially from law schools.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, International Affairs, Colleges and universities, Racial Oppression, Universities and colleges, Prevention, College admissions, Law schools, Race discrimination, Discrimination in education, Educational discrimination, Higher Education Funding Council for England

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Hefce focus on lecture costs

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The Higher Education Funding Council for England has launched a new consultation paper that it hopes will provide a clearer picture of the cost to universities of teaching every subject. The aim of the paper is to provide information for a restructuring of the UKPd4 billion teaching funding system to allow for greater "stability, predictability and transparency".

Strategy & planning, Financial management, Planning, Finance, Education, Education, Higher, Higher education, Company business planning, Company financing, Educational aspects, Educational finance

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