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The new chief executive of the Medical Research Council is going on a select committee survival course. Colin Blakemore has been summoned to appear before the Commons science and technology select...
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Cash rejig may be route to growth
The Learning and Skills Council may take over responsibility for distributing higher education funding to further education colleges as part of a move to help unlock doors to higher education...
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Staffs Surfs back to its poly roots
The largest further and higher education federal network in England has become the backbone of Staffordshire University's new mission, writes Tony Tysome. Through Surf - the Staffordshire University...
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Ministers rapped on regional research
Government policy lacks clarity on how to encourage regional innovation and enterprise, a seminar in Manchester heard last week. There was also said to be tension between national and regional needs...
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Teaching poll: Budding engineers ill-prepared
The department of engineering and applied science at Southampton University is one of the largest in the country, with 5*s across the board in the 2001 research assessment exercise, writes Claire...
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Teaching poll: 'Entry grades are worse, so we've got to get better'
Academics are having to change their teaching practices in the face of a broader range of students and a fear that easier entry standards lead to a greater wastage rate. They are also struggling with...
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Teaching poll: Teacher training takes top spot in red-tape stakes
The red-tape prize is set to go to teacher-education departments, writes Claire Sanders. Michael Driscoll, vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, said: "The volume of inspection and level of...
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Paid work damaging to studies, report says
Students are working longer hours during term time than ever before and it is adversely affecting their studies. Moreover, under-represented groups are disproportionately affected, a study says. John...
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Royal Society fellows
The Royal Society has announced the election of 42 new fellows and six foreign members from the fields of science, engineering and technology. John Barrow, professor in the department of mathematics...
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Oxford Brookes faces £1m claim
Oxford Brookes University faces a compensation claim that could approach £1 million from osteopathy students who say it did not equip them properly for a career. Students who joined the osteopathy...
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Civil war 'kills one teacher a week'
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America One teacher or lecturer in Colombia has been killed every week so far this year according to Fecode, the country's teachers'...
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Court frees suspect in murder of academic
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America A Guatemalan appeals court has overturned the conviction of a suspected author of the plot to kill academic Myrna Mack Chang...
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Nudes secure union cover
Nude models at a US art school have voted to join a union as a means of forcing the university to pay attention to professional hazards such as cold rooms and charcoal dust. Administrators at Moore...
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Moonlighting stars exposed
An Italian student magazine has been inundated with complaints about academics who neglect their teaching duties to spend large amounts of time on contract work in private universities. University...
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Religious president resigns after report reveals bogus MA
The president of a Christian university in the Southern US has resigned after a student journalist assigned to write a profile about him discovered that he had never received his claimed masters...