'Fees must be tied to access'
John Hood, the next vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has said universities must be free to set their own fees but they should do so "responsibly" and with matching access initiatives. In an...
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Rhodes party marred by dispute
The centenary celebrations for the Rhodes Trust, which included Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, were overshadowed this week by complaints from Rhodes scholars that the trust was...
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State of history The first in a series of subject reviews Cult figure The appeal of The Wicker Man Walter Benjamin Terry Eagleton reviews his Selected Writings Books focus: Travel
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Unions on warpath over v-cs' job plans
Vice-chancellors want to make it harder for academics to climb the career ladder, trade unions claimed this week. Ahead of next week's crunch talks on new pay structures, lecturers' union Natfhe and...
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Today's news
Official warning of another A-level fiasco The education secretary, Charles Clarke, has been warned that the government could face a repeat of last year’s A-level debacle after a parliamentary select...
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Rephrase, replace or remove
Patrick Smith questions the validity of learning outcomes and calls for a more student-sensitive assessment regime. He crane-lifts what appears to be the body of a naked female from the pile hole....
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner at this year's National Teaching Fellowships how she manages. Name: Imogen Taylor Age: Mid-50s, but I started late in academia. I've been at Sussex University for two years....
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Alliance to fill gap in online market
A group of top research universities, Universitas 21, has launched an online MBA as a first step to capturing a $111 billion (£66.7 billion) untapped postgraduate market. U21 Global, a partnership...
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EU is urged to adopt Blair way on access
Tony Blair's third-way policies could give Europe a greater opportunity to widen participation in higher education, delegates to the European Access Network conference in Prague heard this week. At...
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Trust to streamline funding
The Wellcome Trust is to cut its research funding by 15 per cent next year following a dramatic fall in the value of its endowment. In his first interview as director of the trust, Mark Walport said...
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BMA highlights race issue
Medical schools must make curriculum changes to help tackle racism in the health service, says the British Medical Association. A BMA report, Racism in the Medical Profession: The Experience of UK...
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Bolton to pull out of national pay deals
The national academic pay system edged closer to collapse this week as it emerged that Bolton Institute is planning to set pay locally and to ignore the national lecturers' contract, writes Phil Baty...
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'Strategic' networking is the key to women's advancement
Female academics must see beyond the "illusion" that individual talent will bring them career success, and start networking and supporting each other in the way that men do, an equal opportunities...
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Whistleblowers: Liverpool professor wins large settlement
Liverpool John Moores University has reversed its decision to sack Lewis Lesley for gross misconduct, after The THES highlighted staff concerns that the disciplinary action was "grotesque and...
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Whistleblowers: Policy broke data act
Bath University has been told to change its procedures for destroying student records after the information commissioner ruled that its policy breached the legally enshrined principles of "fairness...