Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Charlotte Sleigh Age: 30 Job: Lecturer (Grade B) in history of science at the University of Kent. Salary: £26,000...
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Why I ... believe today's students have been turned into wimps
Being a student these days seems like a pretty traumatic experience. Students are crippled with debts. They are over-worked and over-stressed. They "can't cope" with the demands of examinations. But...
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AUT alarm at merger 'threat to freedom'
Academics at Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology are demanding radical changes to charters and statutes designed to govern the proposed merged...
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'Admissions must look at key skills'
University admissions tutors will have to broaden their entry criteria and give more recognition to key skills under proposals to introduce an English diploma or baccalaureate, further education...
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Brickbat for Cambridge building plan
Old wounds were reopened at Cambridge University this week with the announcement that the technology transfer office is to be rebadged and housed in a £21 million new building. A member of the...
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V-cs fail to make pay offer
The trade unions were left angry after the first round of pay talks this week as vice-chancellors failed to put an offer on the table but demanded concessions on reforming career structures. The...
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Demand to explode but no new cash
Universities are set to be denied funds for extra places next year, despite fresh evidence that demand for higher education will far outstrip the government's plans over the rest of the decade. The...
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Big shake-up and new v-c could take Oxford from ivy-clad to Ivy League
Oxford University could shed its Brideshead Revisited image and become more like key Ivy League universities with a major review of its size and shape and appointment of an entrepreneurial vice-...
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In the news: Sir Roy Meadow
Sir Roy Meadow, a retired paediatric consultant at St James University Hospital, Leeds and an expert in child protection and welfare, may face investigation by the General Medical Council. A...
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Appointments
* Cambridge University has named Tony Minson - a fellow of Wolfson College and chairman of the council of the school of biological sciences - pro vice-chancellor for planning and resources. He is the...
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Johnson faces cool reception
Prime minister Tony Blair reinforced his assault on ivory towers by appointing rising star Alan Johnson to succeed Margaret Hodge as higher education minister, it was said this week. The choice of Mr...
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Tough tests loom for Hood
The appointment of cricketing Kiwi John Hood, vice-chancellor of Auckland University, to lead Oxford has surprised some at the university, writes Claire Sanders. College heads were acquainting...
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NHS University takes over doctors' postgrad studies
The National Health Service University is set to take over postgraduate deaneries, the bodies responsible for all postgraduate education for doctors, in a significant expansion of its empire. Peter...
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Next week
Numbers game Impact of the new demography on higher education The circus life for me Was the Elephant Man more exploited by the doctor who 'rescued' him? Galileo's Finger Nobel laureate P. W....
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UKeU signs up BBC
UKeUniversities, which was set up to deliver UK degrees online, has signed a deal with BBC Learning. Courses will be promoted by BBC Worldwide Learning through activities such as roadshows in...