National Teaching Fellowship winners
* Allan Owens, senior lecturer, drama and theatre studies, Chester College of Higher Education * Clive Holtham, professor, information management, Cass Business School, City University * Sidney...
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Upside-down logic puts the facts in perspective
A good tutor dares to turn traditional teaching on its head to help students understand their subject better, according to two winners of £50,000 fellowships for teaching excellence. They are among...
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Surrey spin-offs gear up for success in the field
Two companies with links to the University of Surrey have raised funds to develop products that will help release high-value contaminated land for redevelopment. Cybersense Biosystems, set up in 2001...
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Spires aspire to Ivy League
Should Oxford cut first degrees to compete internationally? Claire Sanders reports Oxford University's undergraduates have included five kings, 25 British prime ministers - and three saints. To cut...
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More than just a hall
Lord Robin Butler is a college man who has seen the writing on the wall for the current Oxford system. He studied at University College, Oxford, in the 1960s, went on to become head of the civil...
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Overworked students suffer lower quality of learning
Students at Oxford University are so overworked that the quality of their learning may be damaged, according to a consultation document from Oxford's key educational policy and standards committee,...
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Queen's birthday honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Martyn Arbib, president of Perpetual plc, for services to charities, especially education. John Baker, QC, Downing professor of the laws of England, University of Cambridge, for...
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Risk-takers more prone to infidelity
It may soon be possible to predict whether your partner is likely to cheat on you, according to research psychologists at Sheffield Hallam and Leicester universities. Generating a "measure of...
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Private offshoot wins reprieve - with strings
Australia's only private university to be established by a public institution has received approval to operate for another five years, under strict conditions. Melbourne University Private,...
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Hadrian's villa gets updated 3D map
Rome's Tor Vergata University has launched an international, multidisciplinary programme to produce a definitive three-dimensional map of Hadrian's villa. A dozen, mainly Italian, universities and...
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Soros takes charity cash to America
Financier George Soros is to scale down his charitable activities in Russia to concentrate on a country he considers to be in greater need of support for an open society: the US. Mr Soros, whose Open...
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Latvia says Israel revoked degrees to cut costs
Israel's supreme court is to rule on an education ministry decision to invalidate degrees awarded by the local branch of the University of Latvia. The effect of the decision is to cancel salary...
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Students face prosecution as German finance ministry uncovers grant fraud scandal
Thousands of German students face fines or fraud charges for supplying false information to obtain government grants. A nationwide investigation by the finance ministry has concluded that every fifth...
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Spanish access trend is reversing
Progress on widening access to Spain's universities may be faltering after improving in the 1990s, according to the first study to look at access to higher education. Metropolitan Survey 2000...
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US to take lead in 'modernising' Iraq
US universities are to dominate efforts to rebuild Iraq's neglected and war-ravaged higher education sector, with a market-led outlook. The US Agency for International Development (USAid) this month...