Campus round-up
University of BedfordshireTouch of the IrishA course equipping undergraduates studying physical education with the skills needed to become qualified Gaelic football and hurling instructors has been...
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University of WollongongEeva LeinonenEeva Leinonen, who took over as deputy vice-chancellor (education) at the University of Wollongong at the beginning of the month, said the institution's "human...
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The unhappiness principle
Learning outcomes are frequently dismissed as a nuisance to be dutifully completed and swiftly put aside, but Frank Furedi believes their prescriptive nature and underlying utilitarian ethos make...
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A city's spirits unextinguished
An exhibition foregrounds the people of Dresden and their many and contradictory stories rather than their historical tragedy, discovers Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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The Outer Limits - Waking the dead
In the first of a new series on academics who conduct research in extreme circumstances, Gillian Fowler recalls the six years she spent working as a forensic anthropologist exhuming mass graves in...
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Still leading, learning and sharing passion for teaching
Jack Grove speaks to the former president of Ireland who will lead an EU inquiry into higher education
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Charitable trust, shareholder suspicion: Buckingham v-c's for-profit fears
The head of the UK’s first privately funded university has reacted to the creation of the second such institution with “great scepticism”, warning that dependence on shareholders could be “even more...
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Knight takes critical position to become BIS grandmaster
Sir John O’Reilly will soon become the sector’s most powerful civil servant. He talks to Elizabeth Gibney
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EPSRC grant: now no crystal ball required
Council’s chair ditches ‘misleading’ wording on strategic importance of research. Paul Jump writes
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Not monkeys, so why the peanuts?
Graphene discoverer takes aim at applied bias and short-term thinking. Paul Jump reports
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No risk posed by 10 little newbies
GuildHE chief reassures sector as Willetts hails removal of size restrictions. John Morgan reports
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Gold-watch time for 'simplistic' NSS survey?
The National Student Survey should be replaced by a poll asking undergraduates how much they have engaged with their studies and university life, the head of a mission group has said.Speaking at the...
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Staff put on red alert over Bolton's drastic plans to get into the black
Claims that overseas and private ventures may have added to financial woes. John Morgan reports
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Offa and Hefce draft national access strategy
A national strategy on improving university access is set to be published by next autumn.
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No egg on Burns' face, but protest fails to come to boil
NUS march ends amid boos, grumbling and confusion in sodden outfield. John Morgan reports