Ministers urged to rethink funding
Ministers must ensure that UK researchers are funded at the same levels as their overseas competitors, the new head of the country's vice-chancellors' umbrella body, said this week. Drummond Bone,...
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The university of hard knocks and heartache
Are you a bully or the victim of bullying? Judging by the response to The Times Higher 's request for academics to share their experiences of aggressive colleagues, the problem is common to UK...
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Course burden 'hits quality'
The rapid expansion of foundation degrees is putting lecturers under so much pressure that they do not have time to keep on top of their subject knowledge, The Times Higher has been told. Lecturers...
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Dying in limelight at birth of new unit
The UK's first research centre devoted to death will be launched at Bath University this week, as more than 200 academics gather to discuss an increasing worldwide fascination with mortality. The...
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Research learns lessons from PhDs' movements
Almost half of PhD graduates in the UK move out of the region they study in, according to preliminary findings unveiled at the UK Grad conference this week. Some 47 per cent of PhD graduates move to...
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Post-exam application will generate 'panic'
The battle lines over the Government's proposed reform of the admissions system emerged this week as old universities warned against creating a last-minute "panic" for places. Last week ministers...
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Migrant GPs plug deficit
International students enrolled at Australia's medical schools are helping to overcome a critical shortage of general practitioners, especially in rural areas. The federal Government realised last...
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Moscow
Russia is to reduce the number of university military training departments as part of a move to improve the recruitment of an educated officer class, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced....
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Paris
Alice Dautry is to take over as director-general of the Pasteur Institute from Oct-ober, replacing Philippe Kourilsky who presided over a controversial modern-isation programme for the medical...
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Indianapolis
The National Collegiate Athl-etic Association, which over-sees US intercollegiate sports, has partly backed down over a ban on team nicknames deemed "hostile and abusive" to native Americans. Florida...
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Hamilton
New South Wales's Charles Sturt University has become one of the first foreign institutions to be able to operate as a university in Ontario after enrolling more than a hundred students on a bachelor...
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Election key to university hopes
A would-be university in New Zealand hopes that a change of government after tomorrow's general election may help its case, after its application was turned down last month. In August, more than six...
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Italy's internet dottores risk jail
Italians are suckers for a title and, while contessa and principe may have fallen into disuse, a thirst for academic ones has made some Italians easy targets for internet scams. Rome's consumer...
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Scarf ban protest
Scores of Turks who graduated from universities in Europe after being barred from Turkish institutions for insisting on their right to wear items of religious clothing have held a joint graduation...
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Research flaws exposed
Flaws in France's university research system have been exposed by an official inquiry. From its examination of 45 establishments, the Cour des Comptes, the equivalent of Britain's National Audit...