Who's in who's out?
LEICESTER Computer and information technology plays such a fundamental role in higher education today that it should be central to every university's strategy, according to Mary Visser (pictured),...
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Sex equality crusaders
Exemplary universities selected to show way, reports Tony Tysome Seven universities have been selected as part of a government-backed project to become models of how institutions can improve career...
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Women continue to earn less than men
The gender pay gap persists in higher education, with female staff earning significantly less than their male colleagues across all five academic grades in 2004-05, writes Matt Sandy. Figures...
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Database to clock performance in accountability drive
The US Secretary of Education has demanded that US universities be held more accountable for their costs and the success or failure of their students while promising a "robust national dialogue",...
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Critical mass
When the Boston archdiocese suffered a child-abuse scandal similar to the one at Gonzaga University in the 1990s, it delivered a near-fatal wound to the Catholic Church. But the crisis prompted the...
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US college admits to sex abuse cover-up
A university head allegedly molested boys in the 1960s, writes Jon Marcus Church officials at a Catholic university in the US Pacific Northwest have admitted that they covered up the alleged sexual...
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Police officers duped into paying for bogus exams
An Italian sociology professor has been accused of swindling about 1,000 Italian police officers out of fees for a bogus course to acquire credits for a university degree. A year ago, Italy's Union...
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Study into suicide bombing curtailed
Australia's new anti-terrorism laws are affecting serious research on Islamic fundamentalism, writes Geoff Maslen. A respected academic who won one of Australia's biggest research grants has been...
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Fury grows at plan to step up state input on research
French scientists are furious about alleged government plans to gain control over the forthcoming Research Evaluation Agency. The mounting protest is the latest in more than two years of revolt...
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Row keeps students out
Israel's seven research universities will remain closed when the new academic year begins next month unless the Government hands over more than 350 million shekels (£44 million) that have been cut...
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Want to talk? First show me your credentials
The belief that academics can speak only in their expert field stifles debate before it begins, argues Roy Harris. Freedom of speech is often regarded as imposing some responsibilities on those who...
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Gary Day
I did think of writing about a document someone from somewhere gave me recently entitled Supporting Students with Learning Differences and Disabilities but didn't want to spoil your enjoyment by...
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Poor acts to follow online
University students in the US are posting videos of their professors delivering lectures without asking for permission from the lecturers. One such victim is Judith Thorpe, whose lecture at the...
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Students aren't the public
So much for free speech on campus. The head of legal services at Sunderland University has had access to a website titled "itspublicknowledge" blocked. A further irony: the site is all about the...
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Rumour muddles ministers
The rumour mill is already busy in the build-up to Oxford University's big vote on its governance reforms, which is set for mid-November. Academics fear that if the reforms are defeated, the...