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It is a potential conflict of interest every lecturer is sensitive to. You are giving a lecture course on a topic for which your book is a leading text. Do you add the book to your students' reading...
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'Cosmology is appealing because big questions can be simply stated'
Cambridge mathematician John Barrow has been awarded the world's best-known religion prize Gazing up at the mosaic ceiling of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, John Barrow saw confirmation of his life's...
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On the move...
* The Higher Education Academy has appointed as senior associates: Michael Bradford , professor and associate vice-president at Manchester University, to work on the Change Academy and academic...
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Memo targets boycott staff
Pay row escalates as Nottingham Trent threatens to stop wages. Alan Thomson reports Attitudes hardened in the higher education pay dispute this week after managers at one university threatened to...
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Students could resort to law for breach of contract
Students may seek to sue universities if their educational or employment prospects are damaged due to the academic boycott of exams and other assessment, writes Alan Thomson. Local student union...
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Leaked papers lead to FOI ruling
The Government's freedom of information watchdog has ordered De Montfort University to disclose a series of highly sensitive internal documents about academic standards, in a landmark ruling likely...
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Boris gets sinking feeling as ships shadow sticks oar in
Boris Johnson, the Shadow Higher Education Minister, insisted this week that his party was not opposed to opening up higher education, despite the publication of an inflammatory report on...
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Chemistry cuts lead to fears for other subjects
Sussex has been criticised for closing a 5-rated department as part of its strategic plan. Tony Tysome reports Staff still reeling from Sussex University's decision to close its chemistry department...
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Hefce's inertia attacked
Scientists and MPs this week accused the Government and the English funding council of kicking the problem of science closures into the long grass, writes Anna Fazackerley. After an outcry over the...
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Threat to students' demands for 8 hours contact
Students are furious at the proposed redundancies at Sussex University believing cuts could scupper their campaign for a minimum of eight hours a week contact time with lecturers. Student leaders,...
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Boom time for high-flyers
Claire Sanders investigates a claim that the bulk of Hefce cash to reward staff has gone to RAE research stars The number of academics earning more than £100,000 a year has increased by 169 per cent...
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Dance partners
Students and staff at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts marked a new era of collaboration with the University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a joint concert last week. The venture...
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Watchdog warns of Ucas form fraud rise
Bogus applications for places on higher education courses in the UK are spiralling out of control, anti-fraud watchdogs have warned. The number of "suspect" applications detected by the Universities...
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Rude awakening for art of artificial intelligence
People frequently insult and flirt with computer characters placed in internet chatrooms to entertain or provide information, a researcher has discovered, writes Tony Tysome. Chatbots are software "...