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	1994 Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1994 Group is a coalition of 'smaller research-intensive universities' founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group.
		According to the 'Patterns 3' report by Universities UK, "The Russell Group and the 1994 Group share many features, but are distinguished chiefly by the fact that most members of the Russell Group have medical schools, and an emphasis on science and technology.
		The new University of Manchester formed by the merger is in the Russell Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/94_Group (385 words)

	Encyclopedia: College
		Academic staff are commonly employed both by the university (typically as lecturer or professor) and by a college (as fellow or tutor), though some may have only a college or university post.
		These institutions offered university level academic degrees and research from the start of their existence and were awarded university status in 1989 in recognition of this.
		The University of Limerick (UL) was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and became a university by statute in 1989.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/College (9884 words)

	Education \| No end to uncertainty
		The creation of a university regulator is a positive attempt to address the problem of getting students from the lower socio-economic groups into higher education.
		Universities created by the 1992 Education Act are constantly working to widen participation, and figures show that they have gone a long way in delivering on government targets and benchmarks.
		A number of modern universities undertake important research in new areas of development, which has a positive impact on local businesses and their communities.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4589042-108341,00.html (501 words)

	Russell Group
		The Russell Group of universities is a self-selected group of large research-led British universities; 18 of its 19 members are in the top 20 in terms of research funding.
		The group is often presented in the media as a kind of British Ivy League, representing the interests of Britain's prestigious universities.
		An example of this is the study done by the Centre for the Economics of Education that found that graduates from Russell Group universities earn more on average than those from other universities.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/russell_group.html (726 words)

	Education \| Universities under growing financial pressure
		The financial position of British universities is worsening as the gap between rich and poor widens, according to an audit by the HSBC bank.
		Eleven universities are in "particularly weak positions", and would have difficulty raising new loans, the report said, although it did not identify individual institutions.
		Professor Colin Matheson, chairman of the Coalition of Modern Universities, said the report showed that government was "getting higher education on the cheap and has been for some years".
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4697223-110715,00.html (445 words)

	ipedia.com: Russell Group Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Russell Group of universities is a self-selected group of large research-led British universities ; 18 of its 19 members are in the top 20 in terms of research funding.
		However, unlike the Ivy League, all of the Russell Group universities are state-funded.
		The group is chaired by Professor Michael Sterling, the Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham.
	www.ipedia.com /russell_group.html (743 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| New universities catch up
		This year three new university departments were awarded the top 5* grade in the assessment, compared to none last time, and 43 departments got level 5, compared to just 10 in 1996.
		The University of Huddersfield showed significant progress - in the 1996 RAE 15 of its departments were given the lowest scores of 1 and 2, and none were reached level 5.
		The Coalition of Modern Universities (CMU) said the RAE showed the post-1992 universities were conducting world-class research despite a lack of funding.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/education/1708747.stm (631 words)

	Advisors
		Mike is a protistologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst specializing in the hindgut symbionts of termites; he is co-author with Lynn Margulis and Karlene Schwartz of Diversity of Life.
		Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
		Victoria Kamsler was educated at Oxford University and has taught ethics and political philosophy at Harvard, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Queens College CUNY, Princeton, and the University of Georgia, where she is a member of the Philosophy Department and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program.
	www.all-species.org /advisors.html (9005 words)

	About LSBU - LSBU Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Coalition of Modern Universities (CMU), as it was known, which represented 33 post- 92 institutions, decided to lobby vigorously and its executive group, of which I am member, spent time with politicians, ministers, DfES officials and others, to secure improvements to the bill.
		The CMU was formed as a lobbying group, to ensure that the interest of the former polytechnics was preserved in the changing environment.
		In the light of this, it was decided to broaden the appeal and remit of the CMU and seek to campaign for the interests of universities who deal with the majority of students and who, moreover, work closely to deliver the agenda of government and regional development agencies.
	www.lsbu.ac.uk /about/VCsColumn_feb_04.shtml (809 words)

	Universities UK - Media releases - Universities UK 'Patterns 3' report highlights increasing financial instability ...
		Universities UK’s Longer Term Strategy Group launches the third report in its ‘Patterns’ series - examining trends in UK higher education - at its annual conference today.
		It looks at the characteristics of members of the Coalition of Modern Universities (CMU), the 1994 Group, and the Russell Group, as well as the higher education colleges (largely represented by SCOP).
		Professor Sir David Watson, Chair of Universities UK Longer Term Strategy Group and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton, said: “As well as updating trends, this report provides an interesting and useful new analysis of differentiation across the UK’s diverse higher education sector, including an analysis of the effects of devolution.
	www.universitiesuk.ac.uk /mediareleases/show.asp?MR=359 (852 words)

	Leeds Metropolitan University - Latest News - Leeds Met Equals
		This used to be called the ‘Coalition of Modern Universities’, which was abbreviated to CMU.
		Successive waves of colleges and universities have been called ‘new’ or ‘modern’, such as New College, Oxford in 1379 or the University of Leeds in the first half of the twentieth century or the University of Hull in the middle of the century or the University of Bradford more recently.
		Some universities specialise in research or in a particular sphere such as the arts but the majority of university students in the country attend institutions such as ours, a large, multi-disciplinary university which strives to be student-centred.
	www.lmu.ac.uk /the_news/leedsmetequals/jun04/jun22.htm (221 words)

	Russell Group - Biocrawler definition:Russell Group - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is probably because most (but not all) of America's best universities are privately funded, so these institutions would not have the same interest in forming a lobby group as UK universities who are all state funded.
		The group is chaired by Professor Michael Sterling, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
		The Russell Group identifies itself as being 'an association of 19 major research-intensive universities', and this is seen to be true in terms of the research funding the member institutes receive.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Russell_Group (1174 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Research threat angers universities
		Both Roderick Floud, president of Universities UK, and Geoffrey Copland, chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities, are warning of the dangers of creating separate teaching and research institutions.
		Research is integral to universities, and without it they would struggle to attract academic staff, overseas students and would be less able to serve local industries, he suggests.
		Although there are often mentions of the well-funded, famous universities in the United States, he says that all too often the less prestigious state universities and community colleges are overlooked.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/education/2657569.stm (676 words)

	Australian Tertiary Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Higher Education Institutions in the UK Higher education and research opportunities in the UK is the gateway to the UK's universities, colleges and research organisations.
		The Russell group is a self-selected group of universities with the biggest research budgets.
		The Coalition of modern universities is the group of higher education institutions formed in or after 1990 which were subsequently designated universities.
	www.gu.edu.au /text/vc/ate/content_inst_uk.html (114 words)

	Findacourse News: Student Finance Articles
		Oxford University was condemned today over plans to slash the number of UK student numbers it takes in favour of foreign students who will bring in more money.
		The University of Central Lancashire is introducing £1,000 'grants' for almost all of its students when variable tuition fees are introduced next year.
		Students themselves will be asked to report their parental income and the university expects about 90% of its annual intake or 3,400 will be eligible - a payout of £5m a year, representing more than half the extra fee income it estimates it will receive.
	www.findacourse.com /news/archives/student_finance/index.cfm (2809 words)

	Evening Standard (London): Universities: We'll charge full top-up fee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		UNIVERSITY vice-chancellors today warned that they are all likely to charge the full 3,000 top-up allowed by the Government as the Commons row over course fees gathered pace.
		Now the Coalition of Modern Universities, representing former polytechnics, has said its members are likely to follow suit.
		CMU chairman Professor Mike Driscoll, vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, said today: "My own gut feeling is that every university in the country will charge 3,000." The warning-echoes critical findings of an inquiry by the House of Commons education select committee.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_200401/ai_n9556937 (355 words)

	Politics \| Weasel words or generous gesture?
		The CMU accepts that university funding will only be improved through a graduate contribution scheme and therefore supports the introduction of top-up fees as the only option being offered to the sector."
		"While we strongly support the principle of university students paying fees, allowing a free for all in fee-setting would have increased existing barriers to elite universities for poorer students, which even the more generous bursary plans being announced today would not have surmounted.
		This is a crucial test of the government's commitment to end racial inequality in both education and employment.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4832109-110251,00.html (965 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities grouping was suspicious of any attempts by the government at manpower planning following the Education Minister’s request to members of the Cabinet to identify subjects that should be protected as being a priority for the economy.
		The Director of the Coalition for Medical Progress urged researchers to make their voices heard on animal experimentation in order to maintain the support of the 88% of the population who said in a 2002 MORI poll that they accept animal research under defined conditions.
		The Conference of University Professors heard claims that it is becoming increasingly common to offer chairs as an inducement to attract up-and-coming academics, whose expertise may not warrant the professorial title.
	www.lifesci.org /discdocs/polrep0410.doc (3331 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Whilst noting the academic and strategic significance of departments in the restructured University the Chair emphasised the overriding organisational principle that schools are the primary academic units.
		The Chair confirmed that that there was cause for cautious optimism and the University's success in recruiting overseas students, which did not count in the HEFCE calculation, should not be overlooked as providing both income and an enrichment of the student cultural experience in the University.
		The Academic Registrar reported that a survey of twenty universities had revealed a structure of the academic year very similar to Greenwich's except that the exam period was typically two weeks for Semester One and two for Semester Two.
	www.gre.ac.uk /students/affairs/ac/documents/minutes-2001-11-28.doc (2959 words)

	Stick, scrap or juggle? THES, 21/11/97
		Other universities also resent the extra money Oxford receives, from the London School of Economics, which claims to work as well as Oxbridge with less money, to members of the Coalition of Modern Universities, which say the money could be better spent elsewhere.
		Currently, the universities have 40 per cent of their HEFCE grant lopped off to balance the university services colleges provide.
		John Moores University in Liverpool offers places in halls of residence to about 2,700 of the 6,000 first-years, including 2,000 from the Merseyside area who attend the university each year.
	www.btinternet.com /~akme/juggle.html (1208 words)

	£95m deficit, 25/1/05
		Oxford University has ruled out full privatisation to free itself from government funding constraints, but has proposed slashing the number of places for British undergraduates in favour of those from abroad as part of a package of radical measures to maintain its standing in the international "super league" of universities.
		The proposals are set out in a strategy document published yesterday which says that virtually all the university's core activities are loss-making, which led to a £95m deficit on teaching and research in 2003.
		Bill MacMillan, the university's pro-vice-chancellor (academic), said the university hoped that its new "bursary" scheme - worth up to £10,000 for a four-year degree - would attract youngsters from poorer backgrounds but admitted it would still be difficult to get into Oxford.
	www.btinternet.com /~akme/guardn26.html (1025 words)

	Warwick Boar - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Going to university used to be viewed as an achievement of prestige, and for most students, it is still something they are proud of.
		Geoffrey Copland, the Vice Chancellor of Westminster University and the Chairman of the Coalition of Modern Universities, has said that Margaret Hodge’s remarks represent “ill-informed and simplistic labelling”.
		It may be the final year students, panicking about their ability to achieve a respectable degree grade, who are most eager to defend the extra-curricular activities of university as essential life experiences.
	www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk /boar?article=1545 (725 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Fees plan will not avert funding crisis, universities maintain
		But those universities which serve the needs of less well-off students will not be able to raise their fees as the government supposes.
		Michael Driscoll, the chairman of the Coalition of Modern Universities (CMU), pledged to continue pushing for changes to the bill.
		However Universities UK, which represents university vice-chancellors, said it "strongly endorses" the bill, calling it a "major milestone in ensuring a positive, well-funded future for higher education in this country".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /publicservices/story/0,11032,1118835,00.html (967 words)

	Vice Chancellor's office
		Two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University in the USA were followed by eleven years researching and lecturing in physics at Queen Mary College and Queen Elizabeth College, both of the University of London.
		In 1987 he was appointed as Deputy Rector at the University of Westminster (then known as the Polytechnic of Central London).
		· Chairman of Coalition of Modern Universities 1997-2003
	www.wmin.ac.uk /page-4359 (263 words)

	COUNCIL
		The Report, ‘Patterns of higher education institutions in the UK: Third report’, was commissioned by the Longer Term Strategy Group of Universities UK and published in September 2003.
		These are: The Coalition of Modern Universities (CMU), The 1994 Group, The Russell Group; and The Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP).
		The Russell Group is composed of 19 universities, most of which have medical schools.
	www.lboro.ac.uk /admin/committees/sen/361/sen03-p72.htm (352 words)

	Mills & Reeve: Legal Article: Higher Education Scan 16 Jan 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The University of Greenwich and the University of Kent have joined forces to open a School of Pharmacy on their new Medway campus.
		Hull joins a group of some 50 universities around the world selected for their various special expertise, which is of strategic importance to Sun.
		The University of Wolverhampton's Walsall campus is being transformed by major new developments to create first-class facilities for students.
	www.mills-reeve.com /article.asp?id=219 (1046 words)

	The British Museum: Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Director of Marketing and Development at the University of Westminster since 1997, Dr Homden (39) is also co-ordinator of the public affairs activities of the Coalition of Modern Universities.
		She has been Vice-Chair (PR) of the Higher Education External Relations Association since 1996 and is a winner of awards from Communicators in Business, International Advertising Association and IVCA as well as the Higher Education Information Services Trust awards scheme.
		She joined the University of Westminster (then Polytechnic of Central London) in 1987 as Public Relations Officer with a background as a freelance arts journalist and independent publisher and became Director of Corporate Communications in 1989.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /newsroom/archive1999/homden.html (304 words)

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