Kelly questions 50% pledge
Labour's manifesto pledge to send 50 per cent of young people into higher education risks "obscuring" the Government's wider aim of encouraging learning from infancy to retirement, the Education...
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Schools caterer gobbles its way into universities
It has gained notoriety for feeding the nation's schoolchildren "nutrition-lite" meals such as the Turkey Twizzlers lambasted by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Now giant catering company Scolarest is...
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Just savour the carbon and oil...
Alana Bates , communications officer for Middlesex University Students' Union, reviews the university's Trent Park Mansion cafe, run by Scolarest. The polystyrene-like chips look rather dry, as do...
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Cambridge rings BT for a little platonic chat
BT executives are learning that it's good to think as well as talk - after consulting some of the country's leading philosophers for advice on keeping customers. Cambridge University's philosophy...
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AUT to 'shame' employers
The Association of University Teachers this week began "naming and shaming" universities it claimed were not making enough progress towards implementing last year's pay framework, writes Phil Baty....
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Teaching status scrutinised
A study of the impact of recent schemes and initiatives designed to raise the status of teaching in universities is being planned by the Higher Education Academy later this year. The HEA is already...
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Clone rangers give the hard cell
Spaced-out aliens making human babies, copies of a castrated race horse, a Danish clinic selling three grades of sperm, the burning of twins and Xeroxed people were some of the ideas aired at The...
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'No' to appraisals
Oxford University may be forced to abandon plans for compulsory staff appraisals after its ruling congregation voted overwhelmingly against the idea. More than 500 of the 3,500 academics who are...
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It's informative up North
Students at Manchester University get the best careers advice in the UK, according to a survey of graduate recruiters. The Association of Graduate Recruiters/Barkers national survey found that...
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Lib Dems replace Willis
Ed Davey, MP for Kingston and Surbiton, has been appointed the Liberal Democrats' education spokesman in a post-election reshuffle, replacing Phil Willis. The Tories announced that Stephen O'Brien,...
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Clarification
On April 29, we reported that delegates at the Association of University Teachers' annual conference agreed "by just four votes" that the union would boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities in Israel...
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London Met set for race probe
London Metropolitan University faces the possibility of prosecution under race relations legislation after a complaint to equality watchdogs by lecturers' union Natfhe. Natfhe has written to the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Star staff cosseted in bid to up RAE rating" - The Times Higher, May 13 Are you perfectly comfortable, Dr Mainchance? Or should Maureen ring reception for an extra pillow? No thanks, Lapping. I'm...
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Alan Ryan
Continually changing ministers and endlessly rolling out initiatives do little but cause chaos in higher education You'd think that a government that insisted that its priorities were "education,...