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Last week in The THES: Richard Ryder argued that the prejudice in favour of the human species is looking ever more irrational. I have no great difficulty with the notion that it is "irrational" to...
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Crisis as 8,000 places unfilled
Students are spurning new universities, provoking a recruitment crisis at several institutions. Over the past seven years, some 22,000 new university places have gone unfilled, 8,000 in 2000-01 alone...
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NEWS The 20-year hitch: the cutbacks that changed the course of Aston and Salford's history. FEATURES Education behind bars: the role of learning in the prison system; Medieval Congress. RESEARCH New...
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Welsh snub 'sneering' paper
A Bangor University academic's submission to the Welsh Assembly's higher education review has been condemned as "offensive" and "anti-English". Dafydd Glyn Jones, a reader in Welsh language and...
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Rising starlet fires at college
A rising star of haute couture claims his career has been damaged by unfair treatment at the hands of Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. Jan Bertelsen, a third-year undergraduate who...
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Strike on cards as lecturers' unions divide over pay
Further education lecturers may go ahead with a two-day strike after union leaders rejected an improved pay offer on a par with school teachers' awards, writes Tony Tysome. At a meeting of the...
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QAA activity is set to be stifled
The volume of university teaching quality inspections could be slashed beyond the 40 per cent cut ordered by former education secretary David Blunkett, under a new quality assurance blueprint, writes...
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Rome roam
Neil Garrod (pictured), Glasgow University's dean of law and financial studies, after completing the last leg of a 2,400km, 54-day run from Rome to Glasgow, reconstructing the journey of the papal...
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Pay revolution smashes binary divide
The last vestige of the binary divide between old and new universities has been smashed, trade union leaders said this week as they agreed plans to unite academics around a single pay negotiating...
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Deans snub Milburn over student letter
Medical deans have snubbed health secretary Alan Milburn by refusing to forward a letter from him to their students. The letter expresses the hope that students will work in the National Health...
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News in brief
Northern College gets go-ahead to merge Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has approved the long-awaited merger of Northern College with Aberdeen and Dundee...
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Whistleblowers
LSE faces tribunal 'LSE's failure to dispute the decision left Mr Mergoupis and a research assistant without jobs' Academics' right to put forward unpopular opinions without jeopardising their...
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Analysis: Labour can't find the right formula
Despite government rhetoric, students exhibit no desire to sign on to initiatives such as modern apprenticeships and foundation degrees. Alison Goddard reports. Far fewer young people are going to...
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EU Parliament backs fees petition
An anti-fees petition from Nottingham University students has prompted an unprecedented move by the European Parliament in support of their complaint. It has taken Euro MPs and officials 18 months to...
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Rics told to reverse exclusions
An independent review has ordered the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to reinstate all the universities that appealed against its controversial decision to remove their accreditation. There...