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Andrew Dilnot , director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Radio 4 presenter, will succeed Derek Wood as principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford; Frances Lannon , a fellow and history tutor at...
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Graduates say degrees leave them short of skills
New graduates lack three of the skills they judge most used in the workforce - time management, task juggling and verbal communication - a survey shows. The skills deficit is a surprise finding of...
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Next week
News • Out of step: military abandons Shrivenham for civilian universities Features • How can academics help tackle the transport crisis? • Is sports psychology a valid subject? Books • Ray Monk...
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Hull staff live on student budget
Four senior managers at Hull University spent a week living in student accommodation on a budget of just £24 to gain first-hand experience of their students' financial problems. The "students" were...
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Senior faculty triumph in bid to scupper London merger
A group of 13 senior staff, including some of University College London's most famous names, was credited with halting plans to merge with Imperial College this week. Merger talks were called off....
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Troubled Commonwealth Institute eyes Cambridge alliance
London's Commonwealth Institute has opened negotiations with Cambridge University to set up a pan-Commonwealth centre of excellence in education. The institute, which recently suffered a financial...
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Defiance grows in fees debate
Vice-chancellors throughout Wales and the Northeast of England have come out against the introduction of top-up fees. In a statement this week, heads of member institutions of the University of Wales...
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LSE plan to break rank piles on pressure
The London School of Economics has applied for degree-awarding powers, putting further strain on the University of London, which currently awards its degrees, writes Alison Goddard. Imperial College...
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Hertfordshire bids for medical school
The University of Hertfordshire hopes to have a medical school by 2010. A meeting between the university and key National Health Service partners last week agreed to establish a working group to take...
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Daresbury sees light
The business case to build a fourth-generation light source facility at Daresbury Laboratory has been given the green light by the government. The £120 million project would create a new light source...
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Bank funds Art for All
The Clydesdale Bank is funding a £100,000 programme of Glasgow School of Art workshops to encourage schoolchildren to explore their creativity. The three-year Art for All programme, to be launched in...
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GMC set to reform
Legislation for the reform of the General Medical Council was placed before Parliament last week. The reform will streamline the GMC, boost lay representation and introduce revalidation for all...
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Perks pull in teacher training recruits
The number of trainee teachers has reached a 12-year peak, according to figures out this week. But despite more than 35,000 people embarking on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, shortages of...
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End short contract outrage, MPs insist
MPs have blamed "callous and short-sighted" management in UK universities for landing higher education with a proportion of fixed-term contract staff which is second only to the catering industry....
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Private Bucks asks for public QAA scrutiny
While most universities have spent the best part of a decade trying to wriggle out of it, Britain's only private university has volunteered to subject itself to the scrutiny of the quality inspectors...