Daily TV & radio guide - Saturday
Private Passions (12 noon R3). Philosopher A.C. Grayling with his choice of music. The Lord Lieutenants (3.30 R4). First of four programmes in which Richard Stilgoe looks at the history and current...
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Drug giants call the tune
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a Californian university professor will erode the objectivity of research funded by corporations, according to worried American academics. In the California case...
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Funding to get no increase
There will be no real-terms increase in the unit of funding for teaching and core research next year, the latest funding council figures confirm. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has...
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Thatcher - not just a milk snatcher
"Margaret Thatcher - saviour of the Open University." The label is less familiar than "milk snatcher" or "iron lady", but cabinet papers for 1970, released earlier this week under the 30-year rule,...
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Performance pay strings divide sector
Performance-related pay is set to be introduced in universities as part of a series of measures to tackle poor teaching and stop the threatened brain drain of top academics. Lecturers' leaders and...
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Most Scots opt for learning
For the first time, the majority of Scottish school leavers are going into full-time further and higher education. Between 1992-93 and 1999-2000, the percentage of school leavers going on to college...
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Next week
NEWS: Scottish devolution a year after Cubie. FEATURES: Medical ageism or truth avoidance? Judith Okely on how her mother died from CJD, unnoticed. BOOKS: John Dunn on Gerry Cohen's If You're an...
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Disability provisions will cost millions
It could cost universities £250 million to comply with proposed disability and special educational needs legislation. Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK (formerly the Committee of...
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Newscaster heads UK's Euro languages drive
Sir Trevor McDonald has become president of the United Kingdom national committee coordinating events for the European Year of Languages. Veteran newscaster Sir Trevor said it was important for the...
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Funding threat a spur to arts PhD completion
The submission rate for arts PhDs has doubled over the past ten years, according to the Arts and Humanities Research Board. In 2000, 70 per cent of arts postgraduates handed in their doctoral theses...
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Reasons for student dropouts investigated
Student dropout rates will be scrutinised by the Commons education select committee as part of its continuing inquiry into higher education. Reasons being considered for why students fail to complete...
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Director of Jill Dando institute appointed
Criminologist Gloria Laycock has been appointed the first director of a crime-fighting institute founded in memory of murdered TV presenter Jill Dando. The Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science,...
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Curtain may fall on Ustinov department
The future of Durham University's Russian language department, named after chancellor Sir Peter Ustinov, is under threat. Teaching staff are scheduled to be halved when its head retires and a...
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OU joins online business partnership
Online learning provider Unext has teamed up with the Open University Business School. Under the partnership, Unext will offer professional development courses to alumni of the school while the two...
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Research centre plan rejected by council
Cambridge University's plans for a Pounds 24 million neuroscience research centre were rejected this week by South Cambridgeshire District Council because the proposed site is on green belt land. The...