Audit critic is lone UK failure
First 'no confidence' vote by quality watchdog goes to private institution led by QAA sceptic. Phil Baty reports Quality watchdogs have privately delivered their first vote of "no confidence" in the...
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Korean scandal boosts UK's stem-cell hopes
As South Korea reeled from proof that renowned stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk faked his major scientific claims, British scientists said that the UK could now lead the world on stem cells. A panel...
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Former Ulster leader called to court over charges related to driving while unfit
Gerry McKenna, the former vice-chancellor of Ulster University, was scheduled to appear in court this week to face a charge of driving under the influence of excess alcohol. It is understood that...
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Suspension for professor who saw red - and then hit 'Send'
It is the stuff of every frustrated academic's fantasies - but computing professor Richard Bornat is counting the cost of firing off a no-holds-barred e-mail to all his colleagues in which he...
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Next week
WHO ARE BRITAIN'S RICHEST ACADEMICS? We reveal those who made a mint out of spin-oof, in the first of a three-part series. Plus: Hizb ut-Tahrir on defending freedom of speech
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The end of history
Middlesex University has decided to phase out history because of poor student demand, as part of an effort to save £10 million a year. As The Times Higher reported last month, the department runs a...
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Notice to noise polluters
Students who annoy their neighbours by playing loud music could be evicted from their homes under proposals in the Government's "respect" agenda to clamp down on antisocial behaviour. The Home Office...
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Museum research fillip
Museums, galleries, libraries and archives will be eligible for government research funding from April, it was announced this week. The National Portrait Gallery and the Tate are among those with "...
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A snapshot of Scotland
Edinburgh University will be the first Scottish institution to take part in the official national student satisfaction survey. In last year's first National Student Survey, 170,000 final-year...
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Easy end to IP conflicts
Universities have found collaboration with industry simpler, quicker and easier thanks to a set of model contracts, according to a survey by the Association for University Research and Industry Links...
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Cash broadens access
A survey by the Research Information Network has found that investment of £30 million over six years has brought a change in provision of access to research resources in university libraries. During...
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Political science gong
Robert Hazell, director of the Constitution Unit in the department of political science at the University College London, was awarded a CBE for services to constitutional reform.
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An academic take on model villages
Oxford and Cambridge universities are to follow in the footsteps of the great industrialists of the past by building homes for their workers. The famous model communities of Bourneville, New Earswick...
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Pay costs cast cloud on sunny outlook
Inflation-busting pay rises for staff and a failure to recruit enough fee-paying students are the big financial risks facing universities in future, funding council chiefs warned this week amid...
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Postdocs are the 'lost tribes of the science world'
Postdoctoral researchers have become the "lost tribes of the scientific world", who are used, abused and finally lost by universities, MPs heard this week. During a heated Westminster Hall discussion...