College clans unite against the old enemy
Are Scotland's emerging cross-university groupings of researchers a revival of the Braveheart spirit? Roger McClure, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, was only half-...
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Union attacks plan to deter 'fee refugees'
Plans announced by Scottish ministers to raise general fee levels for students in Scotland and charge an extra levy for medical courses have prompted accusations that they are taking the first steps...
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Fear of state meddling after grant board axed
The Australian Government appears intent on influencing the type of research undertaken in universities after deciding to abolish the governing board of the Australian Research Council. The move has...
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Michigan may join auction for Unabomber's papers
The University of Michigan is considering whether to bid for the papers and personal effects of the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, which are being auctioned on court orders to help pay restitution to...
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Relief as jobs-for-life rejig stalls
Radical reforms of the national employment conditions for university lecturers and researchers working in Italy, scheduled to become law by now, have become bogged down in parliament. Approval will...
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Cash hope for unpaid staff
Academics at the University of Buenos Aires who are working without pay will benefit from a government promise to raise the university budget. Daniel Filmus, Argentina's Education Minister, agreed to...
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Good loses last-ditch appeal over expulsion
Kenneth Good, the Australian political scientist at the University of Botswana expelled on the orders of President Festus Mogae after questioning the way the head of state's successor was to be...
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Union slams 'illegal' extras fee
Almost two thirds of French universities make students pay "illegal" supplementary fees for services that should be included in statutory fees fixed by the Government, says student union Unef. It has...
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Russians set sights on Czech venture
A Russian businessman has offered to create a private university in a small town in the Czech Republic near the border with Germany at a time when the number of foreign students in the country is on...
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It's not just navel-gazing, the future is at stake
Oxford's governance debate reflects questions about the UK sector as a whole, write Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman To many within the wider academic community it must seem that the furore...
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Alison Wolf
True innovation comes from individuals, who are better served by idiosyncratic foundations than bureaucratic institutions Many people probably know that the first Apple computer was built by two non-...
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Bill Dufodié Terror in the first person
"Not one inch should we give to these people." The words of the Prime Minister at his monthly press conference rang through my mind as I set off to Chelsea to watch Robin Soans's production Talking...
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Another dippy acronym
If ever there was a cautionary tale about acronyms it emerged just after the general election when the collection of letters attached to Alan Johnson's Department for Productivity, Energy and...
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Stamping out student poverty
Proof of the lamentable state of undergraduate finances can be found, it seems, in this year's applications for the National Student Journalism Awards. The National Union of Students, which organises...
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Special site for heavy sweaters
It is the end of an era in higher education as the Open University has brought the curtain down on its graveyard shift television broadcasts. But fans of the beards, winged-collars and heavy sweaters...