Private heads curb bias claim
Private-school heads have moderated their claims that top universities are discriminating against their pupils in favour of lower-quality students from poorer backgrounds. A new survey of university...
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Call for nurses to carry out research
The care of patients would improve significantly if nurses and other healthcare workers had more training in clinical research, according to a national think-tank on postgraduate education. The UK...
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Academe to aid maths revival
Universities will be key to revitalising mathematics in schools, the chairman of a government inquiry into post-14 maths teaching has told The THES . In a week that saw further controversy over GCSE...
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ILTHE to vote on disbanding
Ballot forms will drop through the letterboxes of the 14,500 members of the four-year-old Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education this week asking them to vote on dissolving the...
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Small screen switches on to recruitment
University Choice Television, a digital channel broadcasting information on higher and further education opportunities, will be launched next spring. Backed by private money, the channel has been...
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Politics subject special: It's all about events, dear boy
Global upheavals have made politics popular and the UK is now a world leader in research. Alan Thomson reports Iraq, terrorism, asylum, globalisation, healthcare, transport, top-up fees - you name it...
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Last laugh belongs to Mickey Mouse
Critics who deride media studies degrees as the archetypal "Mickey Mouse" qualification were invited to eat their words this week as a study revealed that graduates in the field are among the most...
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Wife killers are just like 'ordinary' men
Men who murder their wives or girlfriends appear to be more akin to "ordinary" males than violent killers, according to the first in-depth national study of murder in Britain. Rebecca Dobash, one of...
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Two get caught in disability law net
A college that excluded an adult with learning difficulties and visual impairment from a cookery course and a university that rejected an applicant with Asperger's syndrome from a nursing course are...
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Postal workers' power resides in their 'social significance'
As the first national postal strike in seven years looms, a Stirling University industrial relations expert says his research shows the UK has the most militant postal workers in western countries....
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'We don't want students on our doorstep'
Robin Cook isn't alone in fearing antisocial neighbours, Olga Wojtas reports Former foreign secretary Robin Cook has failed to stave off the threat of student neighbours in his Edinburgh tenement...
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Promo's last shout
A University of Nebraska bookstore has ended a promotion that gave customers vouchers for free beer. The privately owned store withdrew the offer, which was legal, when university administrators and...
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Bari 'sex for admission' probe
The rector of Bari University has promised an investigation after an official was arrested for allegedly offering answers to admissions tests in exchange for sex. Giussepe Specchia, 46, coordinator...
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US tuition fee rises spark threat to aid
Republicans in the US congress say the increasing cost of university tuition is a "crisis" that universities are not doing enough to resolve. Some lawmakers have separately suggested withholding...
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Iraqi university seeks UK help after coalition snub
A new semester is soon to begin at Iraq's universities despite deteriorating security and continuing starvation of vital equipment, books and journals. The 20 or so state universities are urgently...