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Mandelson: attempts to widen access 'mere tinkering' Former minister Peter Mandelson has said the Labour government’s attempts to increase the number of poorer people at university have so far...
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How to teach BNP students?
Lecturers who have to teach British National Party student activists have demanded a debate about "the implications and consequences of admitting students with openly racist views" to university,...
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Professor under fire for racist views
A professor at the University of Sussex is under pressure to resign after publishing an article supporting racism. Geoffrey Sampson, a professor of natural language processing, has already been...
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English studies still popular
* English is alive and kicking in higher education, according to a report by the English Subject Centre, part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network. Author Sadie Williams found undergraduate...
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South Bank staff march on Parliament
* Staff at South Bank University this week marched on Parliament to protest at the poor treatment meted out to new universities. They lobbied MPs about grievances including the underfunding of new...
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Don's diary: French elections
Sunday Arrive in Paris from the French Historical Studies conference in Toronto. The results of the first round presidential elections are due in two hours. Over dinner with another 20th-century...
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Dallas
Former CIA director Robert Gates has emerged as the sole nomination for president of Texas A&M University. Mr Gates, a retiring Republican senator, was director from 1991-93. "
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Conakry
Authorities in Guinea closed the Conakry university campus for a few days to prevent students turning the 21st anniversary of the death of Bob Marley into a marijuana-fuelled anti-government rally.
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Nova Scotia
Jacquelyn Thayer Scott, vice-chancellor of the University College of Cape Breton, is to stand down at the end of June.
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£800 million overtime unpaid each year
* Universities and colleges do 7.2 per cent more teaching and research than they get paid for, funding chiefs said this week. The full economic cost of teaching and research is £800 million more than...
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UCL recovery may rely on redunancies
* University College London has warned that compulsory redundancies "might be unavoidable" as the college is failing to make £11 million of savings this year. Provost Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith is "...
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Colleges chosen for excellence network
* Sixty-nine colleges have been chosen to join the Learning and Skills Council's programme for developing a network of Centres of Vocational Excellence across the UK. The colleges were chosen to...
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Students looks through the Welsh window
* Software engineers at the University of Wales Aberystwyth have found a way to make the Windows 2000 system more accessible: by developing a version in Welsh. Welsh-speaking academics and students...
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Correction
In our league table listing of subjects with top scores for teaching ( THES , May 10), we incorrectly omitted English at Glasgow (RAE 5*); in music, Salford College should read Salford University,...
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Hike in loan interest rate 'would hit worst-off'
Commercial interest rates on student loans would penalise the poor far more than the rich, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. Ms Hodge was called to a special late-night sitting...