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* Abertay Dundee University has appointed Lachlan MacKinnon as professor of information and knowledge engineering. He is a former reader in computer science and director of postgraduate study at the...
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Funding bosses blamed for rise in bureaucracy
Attempts to reduce the burden of red tape by funding chiefs are creating more paperwork for universities, the Government's red-tape buster, Dame Patricia Hodgson, told academic administrators this...
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Unions issue deadline on pay deal and promise early action
More than 100,000 academics could be called out on strike as early as January next year, as the lecturers' unions dig in for what could become a long and militant pay campaign. Lecturers' union...
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Return to roots for N8 chief
England's northern universities have recruited a big hitter from Cambridge University to head an alliance that aims to narrow the economic gap between North and South. David Secher, Cambridge's...
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MPs chide funding drop
Britain must avoid being left behind as India and China increase university funding, the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee warned this week. Barry Sheerman, chairman of the committee,...
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It's cheaper to read
The price of UK academic books has fallen in the past academic year, according to the Library and Information Statistics Unit at Loughborough University. The prices for UK-sourced titles have fallen...
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Jisc lends £80m hand
The Joint Information Systems Committee has unveiled plans to invest an extra £80 million in education and research over the next two years. This includes the launch of a national e-learning advisory...
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Winning theories
The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics has been given to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling for work on game theory. Dr Schelling is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland. Dr Aumann is an...
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Global stars join RAE
The higher education funding councils this week named more than 50 academics from overseas universities and institutes who will, for the first time, bring an international dimension to the strategic...
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Glees report on terror riles v-cs
Furious vice-chancellors this week condemned research by a leading intelligence expert that concluded that UK universities were being used as recruiting grounds for extremists and terrorists. In a...
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OU acts on quality concerns
The standard of degrees awarded in the name of the Open University by almost 50 of its partner institutions around the world has been called into question. As The Times Higher went to press, the...
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Director retires as writ is dropped
The director of an art and design college has retired after a storm over a colleague who left to join a rival institution, writes Jessica Shepherd. Vaughan Grylls, who has been at the helm of the...
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'Spiritual homes' of mature learners turn to youngsters
Birkbeck, University of London, and the Open University, for decades spiritual homes to Britain's mature students, are to turn their attentions to school-leavers, because they have believe that they...
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Oxford dons call for close eye on top rank
A group of senior Oxford academics has called for a new system of "checks and balances" on the way their university is run, including a "board of scrutiny" to keep a close eye on decisions made by...