Union bids to improve access
Scotland should jettison postcodes as a means of determining whether students come from disadvantaged areas, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. Instead, it has come up with an...
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Five-star rhyme
Staff in the University of Birmingham's Research Support and Business Development Unit have attempted to lighten the gloom of the latest round of redundancies, which were brought about by the failure...
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Robbing the bank
The Diary is intrigued that York University Students' Union has placed an "essay bank" on its website. Along with physics, politics, health and other topics are five offerings on criminology,...
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Scissors for a snip
Student poverty being what it is these days, institutions have their work cut out trying to prevent students pilfering items such as stationery - no doubt to sell on the black market to raise a few...
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Mucky proposal
The small but growing Institute for Learning and Teaching is rebranding itself following protests that it has stolen the registered ILT trademark of the Institute of Logistics and Transport. From now...
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Man or mistress?
A perplexing tip-off arrives for The Diary. Girton College, Cambridge, has elected a new deputy head. Is this an entry for the dearly departed "On the move" column? Or an amusing anecdote, given that...
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Tourist trap
Tourists are being targeted as potential students by the University of Wales, Bangor. It is distributing leaflets showing Snowdonia and the Menai Strait to tourist information centres, shops, hotels...
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I've got mail
Monica Seeley, a visiting fellow at the management school at Imperial College, London, has written a book on email and the difference between the sexes. Dr Seeley believes that email messages from...
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Don's diary: ILT Madness
Monday Pressure building: applications pour in to beat the deadline for the Institute for Learning and Teaching initial entry route for experienced staff. Quick discussions about whether we will...
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In the news: Paul Black & Dylan Wiliam
Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, the King's College London academics at the centre of this year's row over A levels, are used to exam controversies. Both are architects of the national curriculum...
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A fairer system must replace this mad rush
As university telephone switchboards cope with their busiest week of the year, this is an opportune moment to promote an admissions system that avoids the annual mad clearing scramble. It is time to...
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Boycotting Israel would constrain forces for peace
The academic boycott of Israel was a one-week wonder for most of the national media. Once it had become clear that other journals and institutions were not going to follow Mona Baker's lead in...
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Medical school leads way to a new third age
By 2021 there will be 12 million people aged over 65 in the UK, matched by a corresponding decrease in the number of young people. In this light, the decision by the University of East Anglia's new...
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Why I ...believe academic sanctions should be taken against Israel
Living in Ramallah where the sight of Israeli tanks has become commonplace and leaving the city by car an impossibility, it is almost a compliment to learn that the rest of the world considers you a...
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New boys, but same old club
Labour claims to have reformed the state's finances. It hasn't, says Colin Talbot. We still have the same old private government of public money. When the new Labour government came to power in 1997...