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Universities UK - Higher education action group. Lists A-Z links, FAQ's and contact details.
Further Education National Consortium (FENC) - A useful resource for all those interested in further education. Offers a search facility, contact details and support section.
Further Education Colleges Search - Provides a listing of further education providers, listed by county.
Aim Higher - Aims to help people obtain better qualifications, offering information and advice for parents, prospective students and those already in work. Includes news, resources, leaflet request.
UKCourseFinder - Guide to finding a university or college course online. Offers a subject search, help and advise.
Opendays.com - Directory of university and college open days. Offers calendars, open day descriptions, contact information and useful advice.
NVQ-UK.com - Development and delivery of work based education, training and assessment. Lists schemes offered and contact details.
ECCTIS UK Course Discover - A national courses database containing over 100,000 further and higher education courses. Lists a search facility, news, students and teachers zone and contact information.
The Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP) - The representative body for higher education colleges in England and Northern Ireland, promoting HE colleges to government employers and other professional bodies and disseminating information and good practice to and about member institutions. News and events, group workings, membership, policy papers, and information and links.
Your Law Answers - Offers help with law essay writing, LLB, LLM, BVC, LPC and CPE work, individual tuition, marking, assistance with CV's and applications to the Bar and other law courses.
Higher Education Statistics Agency - News, statistics, data collection, links and contact information.
Unilinx UK - Conferences, courses and advice for those thinking about attending university. Provides contact details.
Sport Development - Provides reference material to support university teaching in sport development and the development of community through sport. Includes news, courses, government policy, sport in schools and the community, and library resources for students and teachers.
Courses and Careers UK: Opportunities for School and College Leavers - Offers information about Higher Education plus free university contact service for prospective students. Includes articles, list of college and university websites, and advertised course vacancies.
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee - Promotes the innovative application and use of information systems and information technology in further and higher education. Lists opportunities, funding, issues and contact details.
2LC : Local Colleges Learning Choices - Guidance, information and advice for anyone wanting to learn or study a course at a college of further education to get into work or training. Lists course finder and contact details.
Science and Engineering - Offers information on courses with detailed help choosing the right degree, college or university. Includes questions to ask, action plan, tips for UCAS applications, and articles.
Educational Grants Advisory Service - Provides advice on sources of funding available for post-16 education and training within the UK. Services free to individual students. Includes affiliation details for organisations, guide to funding and trust funding.
British Universities Film and Video Council - Promotes moving images for teaching and research in higher and further education. Includes news and events, researcher's guide, television and radio index, newsreels, HERMES database, services, sales and Viewfinder magazine.
Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration - Independent review of how long-term links between business and British universities can be strengthened to the benefit of the UK's economy.
EDINA National Datacentre - Academic resource for users in higher and futher education. Bibliographic databases, maps and mapping data, UK borders data, multimedia collections, and learning and teaching materials.
RAE 2008 - The sixth Research Assessment Exercise for UK research, determining the selective distribution of public funds by the four UK higher education funding bodies. Details of the assessment, including a provisional timetable.
RA Review - Joint funding bodies’ review of research assessment exercise RAE2001: summary of responses, conclusions.
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2001 - Results, submissions, documentation.
Higher Education and Research Opportunities (HERO) - Official gateway to universities, colleges and research organisations. Information about institutions, studying, research, business, culture and sport.
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Higher and Further Education I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Higher and Further Education "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Higher and Further Education I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Higher and Further Education Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Higher and Further Education It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Higher and Further Education I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Higher and Further Education I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Higher and Further Education Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Higher and Further Education Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Higher and Further Education When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Higher and Further Education Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Higher and Further Education We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Higher and Further Education Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Higher and Further Education We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Higher and Further Education Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Higher and Further Education "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Higher and Further Education The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Higher and Further Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Higher and Further Education Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Higher and Further Education A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Higher and Further Education Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Higher and Further Education
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