Commercial propositions
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...
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Quality plan stalls as QAA faces dissent
The framework for the new university quality assurance regime for British universities is in disarray, with university chiefs, the funding councils and the quality watchdog at loggerheads. The...
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QAA moots student report cards
The QAA published a consultation paper this week, building on the Dearing recommendation that universities develop a universal student "progress file". The files would "form an important element of...
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Call for national inquiry on lecturers' pay
Lecturers attacked the government at the Trades Union Congress this week for ducking responsibility for higher education pay and conditions. Alan John, president of university and college lecturers'...
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Blair tells Silicon Fen: 'You are world beaters'
Prime minister Tony Blair this week said there is "no reason" why Silicon Fen, the academic and industrial concentration of IT and electronics expertise and business in Cambridgeshire, cannot beat...
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Cambridge shines in Sunday Times league
Cambridge University is best for both teaching and research and has the stiffest entry requirements among British universities, according to a league table compiled by the The Sunday Times to be...
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Ethical code needed for business abroad
Universities must address issues of human rights and sustainable development if they want to promote themselves worldwide, a report to be published next week will argue. The report, produced by the...
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Dons become internet 'knowledge gurus'
Academics are to charge for selected words of wisdom through a new service on the internet, launched this week. More than 30 lecturers at the University of Northumbria have joined together in a web-...
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Fundraising is future, says Aberdeen head
Vice-chancellors are likely to spend more than a third of their time on fundraising by 2010, the principal of Aberdeen University predicts. Duncan Rice, speaking at this week's CASE-HEERA conference...
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Union protests loss of college staff jobs
Bolton College plans to make 26 staff compulsorily redundant as part of a savings drive. Eight lecturers and 18 support staff are expected to go in an attempt by the college to meet a planned Pounds...
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Bristol not alone in making lower offers
Bristol University, which sparked anger from independent schools for saying it would make lower offers to some applicants from poor-performing schools, claimed this week it was only following the...
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Scot E.coli warrior's lab has contract axed
Hugh Pennington, Aberdeen University's professor of bacteriology, who two years ago led the investigation into the country's worst E.coli outbreak, has been shocked by the Scottish Executive's...
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Students yearn for friendly local pubs
The town-gown divide is narrowing as students outgrow the "cheap pint" culture, according to research by a pub chain. It says students want to swap their "drink anything so long as its cheap" image...
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Pay for today
How right Larry Bunt is (Soapbox, THES, September 10). Not only is the single pay structure an alarming prospect, but the single pension scheme proposed by Bett further ties the hands of institutions...
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Star turn
Creativity is nurtured as well as natural. Kam Patel meets a design course leader skilled in the art of constructive criticism It is the day of the final assessment for second-year textile design...