Rooms need more than a view
The outlook may be exciting but are teaching facilities up to scratch? Sally Brown lists common complaints about accommodation University lecturers work in some of the most beautiful, historic, and...
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Student doctors keep their finger on the pulse
Newcastle is the first medical school in Britain to get a quality thumbs-up. Olga Wojtas looks at the case Newcastle University medical school has just won 24 points out of 24 in the teaching quality...
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Masons seek formal partners in academy
The freemasons are looking for formal university partners to develop their new masonic research centre in London. The Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, in Islington, North London, was launched with...
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Invite to grande ecole raises dumbing-down fears
New admission procedures to make it easier for European students to apply to one of France's top grandes ecoles have provoked criticism that standards of excellence will be threatened. Paris's Ecole...
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NUS votes for greater openness
The National Union of Students has voted to overhaul its organisation to try to make it more accountable. If motions passed at this year's conference are ratified next year, regional conferences will...
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Agony Aunt
My department wants to close a three-year course because of a drop in student demand. The problem is we have about 20 students halfway through the first year. What would be the legal position if we...
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Impressed by 'helpful' staff
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Mncedisi Mayekiso studied at Cape Town before enrolling on an MBA in marketing at the...
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Soros eyes North Korea
Moscow The George Soros-backed Central European University in Budapest is hoping to build on links forged with North Korea to offer masters' courses in economics and international relations to...
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Pounds 7.5 million package to help part-time higher education students
* Scottish secretary Donald Dewar has announced a Pounds 7.5 million package to help part-time higher education students.
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Mandela scholars come to Britain
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Last September, ten South African students arrived in Britain on the first Nelson...
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Union asks for fairer research funding
Lecturers' union Natfhe is pressing for a "fairer" share of research funding for new universities. In a meeting with science minister Lord Sainsbury this week Natfhe said teaching quality could be...
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'Hybrid' model to raise millions
Aberdeen University has launched an ambitious fund-raising campaign to bring in Pounds 150 million in ten years. The "Sixth Century Campaign" has already won pledges of some Pounds 12 million towards...
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Cash boost to widen access
Scottish higher education institutions have won a 3 per cent cash increase for teaching and a 1.5 per cent cash increase for formula grant research in the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's...
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Don's diary
Friday: East Jerusalem Wake disoriented, but recall I am due on a week's trip to Israel/Palestine to carry out fieldwork near Bethlehem and give a paper at the annual conference of the Israeli...
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On the move
John Hogan, 37, academic registrar at the University of Durham has been appointed Durham's registrar and secretary from August 1. He succeeds John Hayward, who has been appointed provost of the...