Welsh told to combine forces
Welsh higher education should move towards a more formal federal structure with greater central control, ministers have said. There should be more formal alliances between teaching and research-led...
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Files replace degree classes
Progress files will begin to replace traditional degree classifications from the coming academic year despite widespread concerns about resources, bureaucracy, demand and privacy. Guidance published...
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Nurse research under threat
Scottish nursing experts fear their discipline could face a double setback through controversial funding council proposals on teaching and research that could threaten at least 150 research jobs. The...
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Glasgow University's course in accounting and business ethics
Final-year students on Glasgow University's course in accounting and business ethics were given practical experience of crime not paying when they were put on remand and locked up in Barlinnie,...
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Royalties on hold in fee dispute
Authors will receive no copyright royalties from photocopying of their work by the higher education sector until a dispute between the Copyright Licensing Agency and Universities UK is settled,...
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Analysis: Is a return to grants really the answer?
New Labour's student support system is under fire. It is already being overhauled in Scotland and Northern Ireland and there is intense pressure to reform it in the rest of the UK. Claire Sanders,...
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Should the NUS have fought to keep grants or was it a lost cause?
Should the National Union of Students have fought harder to keep the grant? Can it do anything to reverse the state of student support? Many student leaders believe the NUS took a wrong turn in the...
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On the move
The University of Leeds has appointed: Mojtabi Ghadiri , former professor of particle technology at the University of Surrey, to a chair in chemical engineering; Philip Kocienski , former head of...
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In the news: John Wood
John Wood takes over as chief executive of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils at one of the most turbulent times in its 35-year history. The government's decision last...
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Will kids follow Piper?
Science has gained some unlikely champions in an attempt to boost its popularity with teenagers. Pop star Billie Piper, footballer Dennis Wise, comedian Richard Blackwood and Radio One DJs, the Dreem...
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Open to debate
At this week's launch of Hero, the new higher education web service, its chairman Tim O'Shea demonstrated the skills that made him a professor of information and communication technologies....
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On your lobby-horse
Philip Schlesinger, director of Stirling University's media research institute, has been giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's standards committee on the need for a register of lobbyists,...
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Look on the bright side
Nottingham University astronomer Michael Merrifield got planners hot under the collar this week when he showed that a "sky mirror" art installation in front of the city's Playhouse could catch the...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Oxford will award honorary degrees to: Kofi Annan , secretary general of the United Nations; Tim Berners-Lee , director of the Worldwide Web Consortium and co-inventor of the web;...
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Eyewitness: Spain's tough line on economic migrants
Immigration has become a significant issue in Spain. Tighter laws brought in by the conservative central government have sparked protests, mainly from immigrants, whose chances of a resident's permit...