Good practice should lead to a lighter touch
A code of conduct for university governors should lead to less external monitoring, says Andrew Cubie University governors have never had higher obligations and responsibilities and, in his report...
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Nancy Rothwell
A lack of interest in science is contributing to a crisis in UK industry, and it can be traced back to what children do in class Schoolchildren today are faced with many more choices than I ever had...
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Sitting on a fortune
It seems that the drive for universities to be more transparent in the way they cost their research is likely to be particularly probing in Scotland. A letter from the Scottish Higher Education...
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No aides to recovery
News that Labour MP and top-up fees rebel Ian Gibson had suffered a stroke during a political trip to Israel last month prompted some opportunism in his Norwich constituency. Rumour has it that while...
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Dead satisfied
After years of painstaking discussion about who should be included in next year's flagship national student satisfaction survey, the group developing the poll has finally reached a consensus. An...
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You don't say...
Science minister Lord Sainsbury this week delivered yet another speech about the knowledge economy, this time at the British German Forum on Thursday. But on being asked for an advance copy of his...
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Whatshisname, a future leader
One well-respected political commentator was divining signs of a Tory revival after this year's party conference. Looking beyond the blue-rinses and bespectacled brigadiers, he declared in a national...
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Reunited: The days of frolics and gowns are no more
Former MD and chairman of a retail business Paul Mills studied geology at Reading University, 1953-56. It was Benjamin Franklin who said that nothing was certain except death and taxes. Today, he...
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Why I ... believe the British should hand their lab coats over to foreigners
Science, we are told, is something that every child should and must study. Most hate it, fail to master it and never use it or think about it again after they have left school. It is forced on...
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Tea party is on ice
Oxbridge academics do not want a revolution, they just want their freedom, says Anthony Smith It is difficult to understand just what everyone means when they ask whether Oxford University should "go...
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Test minds, but tend them too
Today's students are suffering a mental health crisis. Richard Kadison demands more understanding and action from the universities The number of college students with serious mental health problems...
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Funding a spur to Scots
Pay modernisation for Scottish academics has been given the green light thanks to a record increase in funding for higher education north of the border. Jim Wallace, Scotland's lifelong learning...
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Sacked veteran is invited back
A disabled 70-year-old emeritus professor whose 40-year association with Manchester Metropolitan University ended when he was escorted from the campus by police is to be reinstated, the university...
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We will not set access quotas, Howells says
Kim Howells, the new Higher Education Minister, this week insisted that the Government had no "backdoor agenda" to interfere in university admissions and would not fine institutions that missed their...
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UK gets down to the business of recruitment
Caroline Davis assesses the boom in business and management studies. UK business schools seem to have no trouble putting theory into practice for they are thriving in a highly competitive sector....