NUS alarmed by 'one-sided' student contract
"This has confirmed my worst fears," said Wes Streeting, the National Union of Students' vice-president for education. A draft student contract drawn up by commercial lawyers for the Association of...
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Grants set to expand
As many as 250,000 students will benefit from a £400 million expansion of the student grant system, the Government has announced. Full-time students will qualify for a full grant of £2,825 if their...
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No boycott vote till '08
The University and College Union will not be holding a national ballot on a proposed academic boycott of Israel before its next annual congress in 2008. Following a resolution at the 2007 UCU...
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Cambridge Press error
Cambridge University Press will issue an apology and correction after The Times Higher revealed that passages in its Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence had been lifted from a 1960s work without...
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Imperial independence
The Queen has declared Imperial College an independent university in its own right during a visit to mark the centenary of its foundation this month. During the visit, the Queen also opened a new...
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Sheffield Hallam move
Staff at Sheffield Hallam University relocated to the new £8 million Arundel Building this week, as part of the university's five-year £100 million estates plan. The Arundel Building will house staff...
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Man provides chair
Man Group plc, a hedge fund provider, has endowed a new chair in quantitative finance at Oxford University, with a £3.3m benefaction. It will be Oxford's first fully endowed chair in finance. Man...
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Freemasons' appeal on rise in FaceBook era
Masonry is alive and recruiting in academia. So does it deserve its reputation? Chloe Stothart reports In an imposing Victorian building, men in ceremonial robes gather. After eating strawberries in...
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McLaren, Michie tributes pour in
Tributes have been paid to two leading scientists, Dame Anne McLaren and her former husband Donald Michie, who died in a car accident last week. Dame Anne, 80, spent her career investigating...
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Stormy brain waves
Experts at University College London are preparing to create tsunamis in a controlled environment in order to study their effects on buildings and coastlines. The team is planning to develop a...
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The games of life
Online computer games enhance rather than constrict young people's imagination, new research suggests. Simon Bradford and Nic Crowe of Brunel University conducted a three-month study of 13 to 16-year...
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Aphids hit back
Greenflies have a chemical defence system that allows them to disable attacking predators by setting off a deadly mustard "bomb", according to new research. A study involving scientists at Imperial...
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NEET discrimination
An academic at Manchester Metropolitan University has criticised government figures for young people classified as "not in employment, education or training" (NEET), claiming that they are misleading...
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Care study wins funds
Researchers at Bradford University have received £60,000 from the Parkinson's Disease Society to study ways of improving residential care for those living with Parkinson's disease. Researchers will...
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Northampton and London South Bank universities
* In the list of institutions that had submitted an entry to this year's Times Higher awards published in last week's paper, we omitted Northampton and London South Bank universities. We can confirm...