'We must focus on students as learners'
HEA chief executive says that inspiration not consumerisation is key to university experience, says Rebecca Attwood
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Derby on course for FE takeover
Vice-chancellor keen to boost post-16 attainment and foster university study, writes Melanie Newman
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20 years ago
A warts-and-all account of student life has been sanctioned at the University of Kent. Its latest prospectus includes in-depth interviews with two students who take issue with the "glossy, self-...
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News in brief
Masters scholarship programmeScotland to boost links with USScotland's higher education institutions are offering more than 50 masters scholarships to US students to boost links between the nations....
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In footsteps of Vikings, teams gather for gold raid
A €21m pot is up for grabs from pan-European collaborations in humanities, writes Chloe Stothart
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILThe BBSRC and the French National Research Agency (ANR) have funded ten projects worth £6.5 million to boost European collaboration in systems...
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A novel old idea about art
Despite prevailing orthodoxies, creative writing is stealthily reviving liberal humanism, says Jonathan Taylor
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In an age of memory sticks, precious little knowledge adheres
In applauding students for their IT dexterity, do we encourage the mere collection of facts and intellectual inertia? asks Bob Simpson
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Building bridges to health
Complementary therapies can and should be studied with scientific rigour, argues David Peters, so that medicine as a whole may benefit
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Top 20 institutions in engineering based on impact
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
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Originality score to curb copying
Lecturer develops a 'more enriching' way of dealing with student plagiarism. Rebecca Attwood explains
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The week in higher education
The report in last week's Times Higher Education that Lancaster University professor Geraint Johnes had been reprimanded for data protection breaches after responding to a mother's complaint about...
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Sector is shifting to business ethos without debate, expert argues
Many academics are unaware of profound changes occurring to the university sector that threaten to fundamentally alter the nature of higher education, a leading educationist claimed this week.As the...
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Misperception of masters could hit UK recruitment
One-year degree at risk of 'misguided' comparisons with two-year programmes, writes Melanie Newman
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Distributed leadership model gives 'illusion' of consultation
Fashionable approach is long on rhetoric but short on interaction, says study. John Gill reports