Call to assess costs
Colleges north of the border continue to be unfairly funded because the Scottish Further Education Funding Council is dragging its feet in identifying course costs, the Scottish Parliament's audit...
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Columnist dies
Patrick Nuttgens, the first director of Leeds Polytechnic and a Times Higher columnist for much of the 1980s, died this week aged 74 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. An architect and...
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St Patrick's Day gift
Aberdeen University has won a $1.85 million (£1 million) endowment for its Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIIS), marking St Patrick's Day. The endowment from the American Ireland...
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Student largesse
Oxford University is set to receive the biggest benefaction to a UK university by a former student, allowing it to launch an Institute for Science and Civilisation. Computing pioneer James Martin has...
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Gong for geneticist
Sir Alec Jeffreys, Royal Society Wolfson research professor of genetics at Leicester University and pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Pride of...
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Ministers to review teaching only plan
Ministers are reconsidering white-paper plans to create teaching-only universities after the proposals were rejected by existing universities on the grounds that they threaten the link between...
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Breaking research link will 'hamper' funding
Universities will find it harder to win extra state cash if the link between teaching and research is broken, academics will hear this week. Roger Brown, the principal of Southampton Institute, will...
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Funding hike tops inflation
Funding for teaching and research will rise by an inflation-beating 5.3 per cent in Scottish universities and colleges next year. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council hailed the increase as...
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Canada's 'positive action' offers role model for UK
Canadian scientist Elizabeth Cannon believes the UK can learn lessons from her country about improving opportunities for women. Professor Cannon, who has been touring the UK as part of an exchange...
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Equality drive reaps rewards
Loughborough University won a Royal Society award this week for bringing its equal-opportunities policies out of the "dark ages". The university was one of three institutions to win a Royal Society...
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First female head for Scots pre-92 group
Christine Hallett this week became the new principal of Stirling University and the first woman to head a pre-1992 university in Scotland. She had been acting principal since the sudden death of...
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Review pans UEL finance course
Quality watchdogs have delivered one of the worst ever inspection reports for a UK degree course. A damning critique of the finance and accounting degree offered at the University of East London will...
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IG nobels tour 2004: It's quackers
It takes a special kind of person (in this case, Kees Moelicker of Rotterdam's Natuur- museum) to admit to the people of Dublin that he had watched homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck for an...
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Lecturers appeal to HRM
Swansea University academics are hoping to win support from the Queen in their fight to save departments from closure. Local representatives of the Association of University Teachers have petitioned...
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Top-ups may hit credit ratings
Top-up fees could make the task of raising credit more difficult for some English universities, widening the gap between rich and poor institutions, according to analysts Standard & Poor's....