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Reports on the changes in the British educational system brought about by the White Paper report. Comments from science minister William Waldegrave; Reforms and boundary changes of the research council system; Revision of charters; Controversy over the proposal to reform postgraduate training through the introduction of a master of research degree.

Discusses the issues and implications raised by the British government's White Paper on Science, Engineering and Technology entitled `Realising our Potential'. Basis of report; Reactions from various sectors; Organizational and management issues; Pervasive issues; Need to effectively address science and technology issues; Careful handling of graduate training; Need to ensure that bureaucracy does not overwhelm the enterprise; European dimension.

The article presents information on conference papers on students' university experience in Great Britain. Dilly Fung found that students view their university experience as a journey with elements of both risk and comfort. Rosalyn George and Anna Traianou said that British students and universities may fail to seize opportunities for cultural interchange being offered by globalized higher education. Ron Best cited the prevalence of self-harming students in certain subject areas.

Reports on the increased financial recognition to be given to universities in Great Britain by funding councils for research in partnership with industry. White Paper report as source; Increased proportion of funding council budgets; Expansion of the Teaching Company Scheme; Support for local firms; Paper's analysis of the role of universities; More.

Reports on the assessment of the government's plans for higher education by education minister Robert Jackson in Great Britain. Importance of the support of the Conservative Party to the government; Status of the government's higher education white paper; Responsibilities of Jackson as Tory minister.

Identifies the remedies to the problems of British science through a chain-link model of innovation. Allocation of one billion pounds to solve the problem of underfunding; Knowledge transfer; Role of industrial clusters in regional development; Consumer acceptance of new technology. INSET: What the experts say about the white paper..

Presents update on conferences in Great Britain as of April 28, 2000. Time management conference of the British Sociological Association; Theme of the Association of Art Historians' conference; Papers on social democracy presented at the conference of the Political Studies Association. INSETS: Caught in a time trap;Deep roots of violence;I don't know art, but I'll buy that.

Opinion. Discusses the results of the British government's zero-based review of scientific strength and weaknesses. Citing of the 1993 White Paper; Principles on the separation of science and politics; Failure by the Advisory Board for Research Councils to shift resources between research councils.

Opinion. Comments on the White Paper report on the performance of universities in Great Britain. Shift of emphasis in the education system towards greater engagement in wealth generation; Focus on further education and the Training and Enterprise Councils; Need for iterative process between researchers and other personnel; Social, cultural and environmental interactions.

Discusses the White Paper report on competitiveness in Great Britain. Attention devoted by the government to innovation; Academics' development of novel perspectives on innovation and competitiveness; Government's move away from heavy bias in measuring performance as a function of individual firms; Change in the function of the Department of Trade and Industry; Promotion of civil industrial research and development.

Offers views on the study of pornography in Great Britain. Presence of literature in the country debating the legality of pornography; Controversies surrounding the inclusion of pornography in an undergraduate curriculum; Need to accept that pornography is already part of the British culture.

Reports on the differences in the marking of student law papers in Great Britain. Classification difference in degree level for the same law paper; Benchmark statement produced by the Quality Assurance Agency concerning student law papers.

Reports on the appointment of Wendy Piat, senior research fellow at the center-left institute for Public Policy Research, to help the Great Britain Department for Education and Skills write the white paper. Anticipation for the contents of the paper; Authorship credits of Piat; Influence on higher education in the country.

Reports on the content of the unpublished paper by the late government scientist David Kelly in Great Britain. Views of Kelly about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq; Fear about the Russian biological weapons activity; Speculation about the suicide of Kelly.

Reports on the reaction of Universities UK to the British government's skills strategy white paper released in 2003. Background on the skills strategy proposal which aims to eliminate skills gap by offering free learning to adults aiming for a level-2 qualification and integrating different strands of government, training and business; Flaws of the proposal.

Reports that British legislators criticized the government's higher education (HE) white paper in July 2003 with a report attacking most of its proposals. Approval given by the committee to increase HE fees; Criticism of the government's plan to further concentrate research funding in top-rated departments and universities leaving weaker research institutions to focus on teaching and building links with local employers.

Reports on the skills strategy white paper of the government in Great Britain. Failure of the colleges to meet the training needs of staff; Emphasis on influencing negotiations with the Learning and Skills Council over college performance measures; Unification of education qualifications.

Reports on the criticism to the government's white paper for higher education in Great Britain. Changes in research funding; Corporate structure of learning institutions; Need for universities to remain internationally competitive.

Reports on the reaction of British Educational Research Association academic secretary Michael Bassey to an outdated study on the relationship between research and teaching excellence. Assumption on the misleading intent of the white paper; Details of the study; Issues related to teaching-only institution.

Focuses on the problem of journals on the rules about the authors of papers published in Great Britain. Guidelines of the Society for Neuroscience for authorship of journal articles; Authorship problems arose in biomedical sciences; Approach to the problem adopted by the journal 'Nature.'

Comments on the significance of white paper in discussing the issues of student support and higher education funding in Great Britain. Priorities of education secretary Estelle Morris for long-term underinvestment; Role of government on implementation of changes in education.

Focuses on the contents of the cabinet papers pertaining to the term of Secretary of State for Education, Margaret Thatcher, in Great Britain. Priority given to a building program for primary schools; Desirability of placing polytechnic institutes under a polytechnic grant committee; Proposal to make institutions responsible for social facilities. INSET: Scots reform met Iron Lady resistance, by Olga Woytas..

Presents information as revealed by the 1967 Labour Cabinet papers on higher education, released in 1998 as relates to student loans. Financial problems that were facing higher education; Reason the papers were released in 1998; Outline of the contents of the papers.

Reports that the British Government is preparing to publish a `lifelong learning' green paper which will explore new approaches to supporting adult and continuing education and training. Proposals for encouraging lifelong learning outlined in the Competitiveness White Paper; Organization of publicity for Great Britain's contribution to the European Year of Lifelong Learning in 1996.

Reports on the British government's plan to publish a higher education green paper to tackle issues from its review of the sector. Unlikelihood of the paper to result into a legislative agendum; Reaction of the Labour Party; Possible inclusion of contents into the Conservative Party's General Election manifesto.

Opinion. Defends the author's education policy for Great Britain's Opposition Education Green Paper. Explanation of the objectives of the paper; Recommendations; Political aspects.

Cites the recommendations of the white paper titled `Modernizing Government' regarding educational change and higher education in Great Britain.

Focuses on the reaction of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work for the regulation of long-term care in Great Britain written in white paper. Proposal for the Central Council.

Reports that due to the transport white paper, users of university and college car parks could be charged for using the premises. Comments from Tony Ridley, head of civil engineering at Imperial College, London, England; Prediction that academics at urban universities will also be charged; Plans of Imperial College to implement charges for parking.

Reports on the creation of a National Council for Adult Learning in Great Britain. Aim to shape the Labour Government's White Paper on Lifelong Learning; Importance of lifelearning to the economic well being and competitiveness of the nation.

Reports on the `Lifetime Learning' paper by the British government. Advocacy of a learning culture in which individuals and employers take more responsibility for education; Combining education and training initiatives in a single document; Criticisms from political opponents.

Reports that British higher education minister Eric Forth has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding.

Reports on university lecturers writing their own "green paper" on the future of higher education. Filling a dangerous vacuum; Attack on all three parties; Providing United Kingdom with its own view of the future of higher education; Competing as a high-tech nation; Seedbed of real economic future; Top-up fees; Hypothecated tax; Need for comprehensive review of the real beneficiaries of higher education.

Opinion. Comments on the issues tackled by the British Government's White Paper. Break-up of the Science and Engineering Research Council; Effectivity of alternative research council mission statements; Earmarking of funds for favored areas; Dangers of the emphasis on evaluation and accountability; Form of `foresight' exercises; Future of humanities research.

The article reports on the failure of academic unions to win in pay disputes in Great Britain based on a report by Bob Carter of Leicester University in England. Union officials are focused on achieving power after the merger of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (Natfhe) and the Association of University Teachers (AUT). AUT officials exclude Natfhe officials from union tactic discussions. It also supports professor Roger Kline's campaign to lead the University and College Union (UCU).

Points out that college freshmen in Great Britain with ordinary diligence can expect a decent 2.1, and that will be enough to ensure that they secure the graduate premium appropriate to the sort of degree they have done and where they have done it. Tendency of college teachers to conform with the general expectation; Side effects of the usual course delivery.

Reports on the controversies relating to proposals to create a fairer and more transparent university admissions system in Great Britain. Strategies to increase applications; Integration of a single American-style aptitude test; Equal treatment for students; Expansion of the education system; Implications for higher education.

Reports on the debate on the purpose of universities to counter utopianism started by Education Secretary Charles Clarke in Great Britain. Response to state funding for higher education study Concept of university as a community of scholars; Attitude of Clarke towards higher education.

Focuses on the condition of education policy for higher education in Great Britain. Issues on the failure of universities to attract students; Income tax contributions of the graduates; Finance for the education in the region.

Focuses on the higher education system in Great Britain. Percentage of universities received funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England; Challenges faced by universities in the country; Quota of universities for middle class students.

Comments on the performance of the higher education in Great Britain. Competition within the 21st-century higher education; Financial implication for students, universities and staff; Abolition of university tuition fees.

Reports on the perspective of students regarding the literature on higher education in Great Britain. Consequence of high tuition fees according to Lucy Gledhill; Worry of Kelly Hall regarding the level of debt; Inability of Sarbjit Kaur to pay for a college education.

Reports on the expansion program of higher education in Great Britain. Regional collaboration between universities; Disadvantages of adopting American regional models; Development of strategic partnerships between regional organizations; Application of the multiversity model.

Reports criticisms by scientists against the editorial policy of the scientific journals 'Nature' and 'Science' published in Great Britain. Influence of competition in the publication of flawed or ethically compromised work; Details of the collective efforts of experts.

Encourages British universities and colleges to reward digital work in the arts. Overview on the contributions made by digital technology to the arts; Evidence that universities that measure and monitor what academics do are lagging behind in the digital revolution; Efforts of the British government in raising a new Internet generation of scholars.

Reveals that the British press seemed unable to give a clear lead to their readers during the 1997 general election. Analysis of the framing of stories; Tendency to respond to public opinion rather than setting it.

Reports on the significance of the plans to re-create a council for national academic awards in the British government's final submission to the Dearing inquiry into higher government in Great Britain.

Reports on the proposed higher level vocational qualification proposed in the report `General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ),' in Great Britain. Purpose of the higher GNVQ; Importance to higher education.

Reports on the workloads and pressures put on the social workers in Great Britain. Report of Tony Hall, director of the Central council for Education and Training in Social Work; Recommendations.

Reports on the pastoral care and counselling services offered by the Cleveland College in Redcar, England. Description of the responsibilities of employed student advisor; Pressures placed on the staff by the college's incorporation under the Further Education Funding Council; Financial problems experienced by the school; Implications of the merger with other regional schools.