Higher-class degrees
More and more students are getting good degrees, according to figures released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Some 58 per cent obtained first or upper second-class honours in...
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Call for fee equality
Students from poor families should pay the same tuition fees as those from rich families, the Parliamentary Universities Group heard this week. Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University,...
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Sheffield mumps scare
Ten Sheffield students have been taken to hospital and 90 others immunised with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine after an outbreak of mumps in the city. GPs in Sheffield have reported a huge...
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Cash crunch hits 'voice of biology'
The new UK Biosciences Federation is struggling to find sufficient money to support its long-term aim of becoming the definitive voice for biology. The federation, which is not due to launch...
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Why I believe the Millionaire trial is more disturbing than The Truman Show
A college lecturer was one of three people convicted this week for deception in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? trial. A jury concluded that Tecwen Whittock's strategic coughing during the...
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Say 'no' to Iraqi loot
Any attempt to relax the laws on the trade of artefacts must be resisted, says Colin Renfrew. Iraq is one of the most archaeologically significant countries in the world. The earliest urban...
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A bespoke tailor of talents
Careers services are adapting to new challenges, but graduates and employers must be realistic, says Simon Hamm. Graduate recruitment is a game of trial and error. The anarchical system we operate in...
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'Toothless' Offa stokes fees revolt
The government faced renewed opposition to forthcoming top-up fee legislation this week after failing to appease Labour Party opponents with details of a university access regulator, described as...
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Alarm bells over future of Iraqi treasures
Academics fear that Iraq's cultural heritage is in danger as an influential group of American antiquities collectors manoeuvre for influence with the planned postwar military regime. International...
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In the news: Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was shovelling snow when his publisher called. Winning the 2003 Pulitzer prize for poetry came "as a complete shock and surprise and is a terrific honour", said the Princeton University...
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Appointments
The new chief executive of the Association of Colleges is John Brennan, currently director of further education development. Mr Brennan joined the Department of Education and Science in 1968, after...
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United assault on Clarke plans
Unions representing more than 110,000 academics and 5 million students are "utterly opposed" to the government's plans for the biggest shake-up of higher education since the 1960s. Lecturers' union...
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Group demands cash pledge to back community ventures
Universities keen to work with their local communities must be properly funded and receive national recognition, a pressure group has claimed in response to the white paper, writes Claire Sanders....
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Brown creates climate for innovation to thrive
Improved research is key to closing the productivity gap with the US, chancellor Gordon Brown told MPs in his budget speech on Wednesday. He said that two-thirds of the gap was due to underfunded...
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