Rumours of spin unite opposition
The government this week denied that it was planning to relaunch its top-up fees policy, writes Alison Goddard. Reports that ministers plan to rebrand £3,000-a-year top-up fees as an "individualised...
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Oxford expert fights in 'pure' Iceland battle
An Oxford University statistician has helped to dispel doubts about a study that identified Icelanders as a uniquely pure gene pool suitable for ground-breaking medical research. Peter Donnelly is a...
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Genetic tests move onto geography agenda
Geographers, famed for their interdisciplinary approach to research, fear that the field of human genetic testing could potentially open the floodgates to greater social and political discrimination...
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Lack of data threatens quest to save species
Worldwide targets to stop plant and animal species disappearing could be missed because there are no definitive measures of rate of loss, according to the UK's leading scientists. Exactly a year ago...
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Findings: Latin a 'detour' to languages
Learning Latin used to be considered the key to learning other foreign languages, writes Neil Martin. Generations of schoolchildren knew that nobody spoke it any more and it seemed useful only to...
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Appointments
The University of Manchester has appointed Amelia Jones, former professor of art history at the University of California, as Pilkington chair of art history; Dorothy Trump, currently lecturer in...
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Whistleblowers: Ex-students reject £5k Oxford Brookes offer
Twenty-nine former students of Oxford Brookes University have rejected ex gratia payments of up to £5,000 each to drop their compensation claim after the university repeatedly failed to gain...
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Next week
DIVORCE OR DIVERSIFY Does good teaching depend on research? Or should universities choose one or the other? The THES kicks off a new series ALSO Dame Margaret Anstee reviews two books about the...
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Revamp results in campus closure
Southampton University is to close and sell off its flagship widening participation campus in parallel with a major restructuring exercise. The New College site, formerly the La Sainte Union College...
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Scottish merger plan
Lecturers' union the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association is balloting its members over a merger with the Educational Institute of Scotland. The proposed "transfer of engagements" would...
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FE mergers 'no quick fix'
Further education colleges are rushing into mergers seeking a "quick fix" that is not a realistic solution to their problems, according to new government research. The Department for Education and...
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Student places up, says Ucas
The number of applicants accepted on higher education courses is 2.5 per cent up on last year, the Universities and Colleges Admission Service reported this week. About 10,000 students had their...
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Today's news
Recovering drug addicts offered degree shortcut Glasgow Caledonian University is offering recovering drug addicts the chance to offset formal study in the preliminary stages of a social...
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Town & Gown: Singing the praises of campus and Canaries
Caroline Davis looks at the university city of Norwich There is an old Norfolk saying, "people in Norfolk do things different", and so when the University of East Anglia was established in Norwich 40...
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Europe neglects teaching of ICT
A European investigation of students' information and communications skills has buried the myth that men are more confident than women about using computers. The Survey of European Universities...