Academics berate useless postgrads
Excessive red tape, punishing teaching schedules and mountains of marking are all blamed for eating into academics' valuable research time, but now the finger is also being pointed at incompetent...
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Is an easy chair culture taking over campus?
Some academics claim the proliferation of professorships devalues the title, but others say its narrow definition as an academic expert is outdated in a changing landscape. Anna Fazackerley reports "...
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Two professors defend their record
Malcolm Schofield, professor of ancient philosophy, Cambridge University In a lively Senate House debate about the dearth of promotion opportunities for scholars at Cambridge University in 2001,...
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ANU and Melbourne top Aussie rankings
An Australian survey, the first of its kind, has ranked the country's universities in terms of their international standing. The "group of eight" oldest and most research-intensive institutions top...
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The success of Australia's cricketers
The success of Australia's cricketers, who begin their Test series with Pakistan this week, is on the minds of researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, who are designing a bat that vibrates less...
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Finland plans postgrad shake-up
Postgraduate degrees from Finnish polytechnics should be viewed as equivalent to postgraduate programmes in other countries, an international evaluation council has concluded. Finnish polytechnics...
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Universities are best investment for R&D cash
Universities' ability to encourage businesses to invest in research and development is highlighted in a European Commission report that could help higher education institutions seize substantial...
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Bill poses a threat to autonomy, v-cs warn
The New Zealand Government has denied accusations by vice-chancellors that it is bent on asserting "creeping state control" over universities. Tensions have been high after The Herald newspaper ran a...
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Violence keeps lecturers abroad
Violence in the run-up to next month's election in Iraq is impeding hopes that academics overseas will return to help rebuild the country's shattered university system. Tahir Khalaf Al Bekaa, Higher...
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Website attacks 'anti-Zionists'
An Israeli website appears to be targeting left-wing academics and universities that it deems to be anti-Israel or "anti-Zionist". The site, Israel Academia Monitor, is similar to Daniel Pipes's...
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St John's
Newfoundland's Supreme Court has overturned a C$839,400 (£355,000) award for negligence against the Memorial University of Newfoundland imposed after an academic overlooked a footnote in a thesis and...
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Canberra
IDP Australia, the overseas student recruitment agency, has confirmed it is to close seven of its 90 overseas office before Christmas and shed 30 out of 120 jobs in Canberra and Sydney.
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Washington DC
US Immigration and Customs has agreed to accept international students' visa fees in the applicant's currency. Since September, payment has had to be made with a US credit or debit card, or by cheque...
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Singapore
A three-year tuition-fee freeze at the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University will end this August when fees will increase by almost 5 per cent.
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Bamako
One student was killed and several wounded in a clash over student union election results at the University of Bamako, in Mali.