Crisis is due to drama
Rising interest in forensic science thanks to television crime dramas has led to a surge in degree courses that "are not rigorous enough", according to a report. The Sector Skills Council for Science...
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Research linked to teaching - official
Research and teaching are "essential and intertwined" characteristics of a university, a high-level Government forum concluded this week. The Higher Education Research Forum, created last December by...
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Students from EU may qualify for UK loans
Hundreds of European Union students living in the UK could qualify for maintenance grants and loans following a preliminary ruling by the European Court last week. Local education authorities will in...
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Unions condemn governance code of practice
Publication of a new code of practice on how universities should be run brought a wave of protest from academic unions this week. The 17-point code, launched by the Committee of University Chairmen...
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Internal politics hold up spin-offs
Caroline Davis attends the launch of the UK's first Enterprise Week Departmental politics and slow decision making are among the main barriers to the creation of university spin-off companies,...
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'Oh no, not another professor trying to be a business manager'
Colin Howard is vice-principal for strategic development and professor of veterinary microbiology and parasitology at the Royal Veterinary College. He is also director of the London...
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Enterprise 'gap year' proposed
Students should be encouraged to take a "gap year" for enterprise development along the lines of language students spending a year abroad. The proposal came from Kevin Steele, chief executive of...
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Caught in vicious cycle of declining standards
Academics say the resources squeeze is forcing alarming compromises. Phil Baty reports on the results of an exclusive poll On the face of it, the statement by Les Ebdon, Luton University's vice-...
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To give the university some credit - and they don't deserve much - the pressure is less to pass students who are borderline than to revise module requirements to ensure that they pass. For example,...
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Students providing replica replies are cleared of plagiarism - because module leader supplied model answers in advance of exams
"There appears to be a serious plagiarism problem," a Middlesex University tutor wrote in an urgent email tocolleagues thissummer. A large batch of exam papers from a group of undergraduates sitting...
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Visa clampdown delivers £30m fees income blow
Universities have lost about £30 million in vital tuition fee income this year as a result of a Government clampdown on visa applications from overseas students, the Conservatives claimed this week....
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UK drive to boost overseas numbers
The Government this week urged universities and colleges to boost their contribution to the UK economy by recruiting more overseas students and becoming global centres of excellence for teaching and...
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Long view
The report Cross-Border Higher Education: An Analysis of Current Trends, Policy Strategies and Future Scenarios , published by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, suggests three scenarios...
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US part funds primer
Nottingham Trent University has set up one of the UK's first campus "prep schools" for overseas students in partnership with a US company. The International College, based at the university, will...
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'I know the value of flexibility for mature students'
Dame Sandra Burslem is well placed to understand the difficulties facing mature students - she enrolled on her first degree as a 28-year-old single mother. "I was a single parent and I enrolled at...