How tolerant managers get ahead
Education is the least good predictor of management success, according to Cranfield University researchers. A worldwide study looking at what determines a person's success or failure in an...
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Change to pattern of killer bug
Twelve cases of meningitis have been reported in British universities so far this academic year with two students dying from the disease in the past fortnight. Though numbers of university cases are...
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Tree doctor
(Photograph) - Tree doctor: A physicist from York University believes he has unearthed the apple tree which inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. Richard Keesing is now awaiting the results...
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RAE opens transfer market
Flutters in the academic transfer market could start happening from now on because of a change in rules governing the next research assessment exercise, an expert on the RAE has warned. Under the...
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Industry task group for research
Industry and users such as the National Health Service will play a greater role in assessing university research under plans announced this week. The Confederation of British Industry and the Higher...
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AoC head pledges no flashiness
The unassuming head of a Northwestern inner-city college has been chosen for the Pounds 100,000-plus post as "champion" of the further education sector. "I'm not going to be flash," said David Gibson...
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Fundraising strategy secures future of Oxford college
Record pledges and donations of Pounds 12.5 million were secured by Worcester College, Oxford, even before the public launch of a Pounds 25 million fundraising campaign last month. Nina Anstee,...
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Private students get fees subsidy for a year
The government will contribute to tuition fees for students at private higher education institutions for at least another year. But the subsidy will continue to be only a third of that given to...
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On the move
John Roberts, 54, chief executive of the Post Office, has been appointed president of council at the Institute for Employment Studies. Lord Alexander of Weedon, 62, chairman of the NatWest Group, has...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Must re-draft Latin American business environment paper - September deadline long passed. Success. Can I ask colleagues to re-read it? No. Thank goodness for email. Ignore unread messages. Any...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Sue Howard asked if all nurses should have degrees Geoffrey Hunt European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences University of Surrey Of course they should. One of the key...
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Teacher training: seven more providers at risk
Teacher education provision is under threat in seven more institutions, following the publication of critical inspection reports by schools' inspectorate Ofsted. The Teacher Training Agency began...
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Lecturers to press USS on ethics of pensions
Lecturers will raise concerns over ethical investment of pension funds at next week's annual institutions meeting of the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Alan Carling, past president of the...
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A third of college self-assessments 'too generous'
The quality of management and governance is "unacceptable" in one in 12 colleges, the sector's chief inspector has warned. Publishing his annual inspection report for 1997/98 this week, Further...
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Researcher: 'I was used'
The University of Birmingham "exploited" an award-winning academic's fixed-term contract to boost its research assessment exercise results on the cheap, it has been claimed. Saeed Fararooy, a...