New indicator risks bias
The drive to reward universities that produce the most employable graduates could channel money to elite institutions that rely on their historical reputations with employers. Lee Harvey, director of...
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Climb high to lift pay, women told
Better pay for British female academics and more support for them to climb the management ladder are issues that must be tackled side by side, one of America's leading campaigners for equal...
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High-fliers
(Photograph) - High-fliers: Kingston University engineering students Erik Clacey (seated) and Ron Monfea take the controls of the flight simulator that will allow them to experience piloting their...
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Employers cool to unions' timescale for salary progress
Lecturers' union leaders were celebrating a breakthrough this week in efforts to resolve their dispute with employers over pay and conditions. But the celebrations looked like being short-lived, as...
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Performance rises at colleges
Colleges are stemming the flow of drop-outs and are helping more students to gain qualifications, according to figures from the Further Education Funding Council. The FEFC's performance indicators,...
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Queen takes Leicester to task
The Queen has delivered a stinging rebuke to Leicester University for failing to take "due regard" of her legal role as its arbiter of disputes. She also criticised the university for "discourtesy"....
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Rome
A researcher at a private laboratory near Cremona faces a sentence of three months in prison and a fine of ¤205 (Pounds 133) for allegedly cloning a bullock from the blood cells of a bull....
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Stockholm
Swedish universities will be able to take 10,500 extra students in 2001 and 2002 with extra money in the 2000 budget for education and research, earmarked for natural sciences and technology. The...
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Builders bother unfresh freshers
Freshers at the University of East London have a good excuse if they are less than fresh at the moment. Halls of residence on their flagship new Pounds 40 million docklands campus have an...
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Belfast 24 say no to Bain
A management move to shed 100 academics as part of a Pounds 25 million restructuring plan at Queen's University, Belfast has fallen short of its target by more than 20. The university set September...
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Cambridge seeks makeover to revive its arty image
Cambridge University is to shake off its image as solely science-led to challenge its rival Oxford's perceived superiority in the arts, writes Phil Baty. Cambridge vice-chancellor Alec Broers in his...
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Second-class masters
'It is the practice for students who achieve a fail grade to be offered a multidisciplinary masters rather than a postgraduate diploma' Students who fail masters degree courses at Middlesex...
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Melton Mowbray governors call for inquiry
Melton Mowbray College governors have commissioned an independent investigation into Whistleblowers' revelations that the college has recruited suspected illegal immigrants as students. The decision...
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Where personal principles meet profit
As universities strive to snare paying overseas students, academics can get caught in an ethical trap. Harriet Swain reports. You have been seconded from your university to teach at a private...
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Rome
Italy's cabinet has backed the founding outside Turin of the country's branch of an Italo-French university agreed last October. The French campus is in Grenoble. Enrolments in the bilingual...