Millions of helping hands
Staff and students have the chance to play a big part in driving the national agenda. Let's make sure we don't pass it up, says Steve Egan The UK's universities and colleges educate 2 million...
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Ready to go the distance?
Students are keen to embrace a sustainable future, says Brian Chalkley, but transforming learning cultures requires a marathon effort, not a mad dash Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an...
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Wind of change
For the past 20 years, Oxford Brookes has not shied away from the fiendish task of putting green theory into practice. Graham Upton explains Oxford Brookes University has been a major investor in...
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Gordon and the revenge of the Golden Triangle
The RAE’s revolutionary support for quality over bloodline is under fire from the elitists, says James Mills So the revolution is dead, and the counterrevolution is upon us. The research assessment...
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‘Accidents’ and wild boars in the woods
Handel And The Castrati Handel House Museum, London, until October 1. "There is a bit of testicle," said Diderot, "at the bottom of our most sublime sentiments and most refined tenderness." Or, in...
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Add risk to the plot for happy endings
Book festivals may be two a penny, but organisers should not be complacent if they want them to thrive, argues Andrew Motion So far as I’m aware, there’s no such thing as a "history of public...
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Scales fall short of grand symphonies in maths
Pique children’s interest in maths with elegant epics, enigmatic mysteries and cold hard cash, says Marcus du Sautoy World pi Day was marked at 1:59 on March 14 — 3.14159 being the beginning of the...
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Local deals on cards as v-cs round on Ucea
Vice-chancellors this week predicted the collapse of national pay bargaining as several admitted that they were ready to cut local deals with lecturers' unions in a bid to end the dispute. A number...
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Students waved through final lap
Keele University has privately admitted that scores of students could graduate this summer with degree classifications that they do not deserve under plans to beat the assessment boycott, writes Phil...
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'One critic accused him of "raising the spectre of a scottish parliament"'
Environmental campaigner Alastair McIntosh has been appointed visiting professor at Strathclyde University Alastair McIntosh, a leading environmental campaigner, has been appointed visiting professor...
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On the move...
* Oxford University has appointed the following: Stephen Davies , professor of chemistry, Waynflete professorship of chemistry and a fellowship of Magdalen College; Phillip Ligrani , professor of...
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Watchdog eyes scientific fraud
New panel calls on researchers to blow whistle and stamp out complacency over cheating A new watchdog to promote research integrity was launched this week with a scathing attack on the "good chaps"...
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Few face censure by agency in US
Criticism of the US federal agency charged with investigating scientific fraud is growing as allegations of wrongdoing have reached an all-time high. However, fewer than one in five cases has led to...
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Two-year degrees may hold key to wider participation, says Rammell
Two-year degree courses could provide a way of luring more students from poorer backgrounds to university, Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, told university heads this week. Mr Rammell...
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