Graduates face two-tier jobs market
Thousands of graduates still earn less than £20,000 a year by the age of 30, according to research that will challenge the positive picture painted in this week's biggest-ever survey of graduates in...
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High-tech checks sink web cheats
A high-tech "Big Brother" could soon be monitoring students' every computer keystroke and mouse-click as universities step up moves to halt the alarming rise of internet plagiarism, writes Phil Baty...
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In the news: Tim Collins
Tim Collins is one of a very rare breed of politician - a Tory MP elected to the Commons for the first time in the Labour landslide of 1997. And he is an avid Dr Who fan. Since his election to the...
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Appointments
* Badi Baltagi, chair of economics at Texas A&M University and associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews, has been appointed to a part-time chair at Leicester...
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Dental schools told: open wide
Health chiefs rattled by reports of a shortage of National Health Service dentists are pushing dental schools to increase student numbers by admitting reserve list candidates, The Times Higher can...
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Torture debate reignites academics' bitter feud
A bitter row has reopened between two eminent Ivy League academics over whether governments should have the right to torture terrorist suspects under interrogation. Last week's Times Higher carried...
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Authors receive guide to the darkart of shelf-promotion
One of the world's most prestigious academic publishers has been accused of promoting the use of "dirty tricks" in a document advising authors how to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. A...
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Nutkin battles with red rivals
Genetic testing has revealed that most of Britain's supposedly indigenous red squirrels are probably recent European interlopers that have left their native cousins clinging on in isolated...
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Next week
Terry eagleton on the very english love affair with the essay Also Founding father: volume one of a new biography of the anthropologist Malinowski reviewed by Nigel Barley Focus: Economics David Bell...
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Courses cost £44K
The cost to the public purse of offering courses through the Government's failed e-university runs to £44,000 per student, ministers admitted this week. Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Labour education...
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LSC appoints chairman
The Learning and Skills Council has announced that Chris Banks, chief executive of food and drinks firm Bigthoughts and a member of the national LSC, has been appointed its chairman. He will be paid...
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Iraq protester wins poll
An academic who stripped to his underwear and donned a hood outside a Labour Party office in protest against the Iraq War, has been elected to the city council in the constituency of Charles Clarke,...
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£4m boost for Queen's
Newspaper tycoon Sir Anthony O'Reilly has helped to provide Queen's University Belfast with $7 million (£4 million) towards a £40 million library. The funding includes a personal donation of £2...
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FE watchdog reshaped
Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has announced plans to introduce a streamlined "light-touch" inspection system for further education next year. He told the Learning and Skills Development...
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Scholars in BBC review
Academics make up four of the six members of a panel appointed by Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, to assist with the review of the BBC's Royal Charter. They are Sir Alan Budd, provost of Queen's...