Essay mill too close for comfort
A leading academic populariser has lambasted online bookshop Amazon for advertising "essay mill" websites for students alongside books by academics. Ian Stewart, professor of mathematics at Warwick...
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Immigration points plan will 'hamper' global vision
The Government's new points system for immigration could seriously hamper attempts to recruit academics from abroad, university heads have warned. The Home Office this week announced its new scheme...
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'I won't be silenced,' says race tutor
Leeds University is investigating the comments of one of its lecturers after he told a student newspaper that black people were, on average, less intelligent than white people. Frank Ellis, a...
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Muslims seek timetable rejig
Universities will be urged to consider not scheduling exams and lectures for two hours on Friday afternoons to allow Muslim students to pray, if a student vote is passed this month. Up to 1,200...
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Health warning
UK universities could slip down the global pecking order if health takes over from education as the Government's top priority, according to a report by MPs. The Education and Skills Committee's...
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Learning through IT
A £6 million research project to use technology to improve learning was announced on Wednesday. The Teaching and Learning Research Programme, run by the Economic and Social Research Council, will...
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Care leavers' guides
Two guides will be launched on Tuesday to help more young people in care enter university. The guides, published by the Who Cares? Trust, are aimed at young people, carers and professionals and cover...
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Meeting their match
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's Deputy First Minister, this week launched an Pounds 870,000 scheme to boost knowledge transfer. Interface, backed by the Scottish funding council, will provide a free...
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Boost for Aberdeen
Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University is investing £115 million over the next decade in creating four "academic precincts" for art, business, health and technology with some of the best facilities in...
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Correction
We listed the wrong grant totals for the following institutions in our table on allocations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in last week's issue. The following figures (in...
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Mp3 - easy as one, two, three...
Salvation is at hand for academics exasperated by students' feeble grasp of mathematics. Students will be able to download free tutorials and exercises to their iPods from a website called "Mathtutor...
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£25m will ease pain for losers from RAE
New universities will receive the lion's share of a £25 million fund to improve research-based teaching, The Times Higher can reveal. The amount allocated to a university from the fund will be in...
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London looks at roads to reform
A group of senior academics is to consider whether the role of vice-chancellor at the University of London would be better served by the heads of its colleges filling the post in rotation in place of...
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In toon
Oscar-winning film-making firm Aardman Animations is set to sign an exclusive deal with the University of the West of England to help design degree courses in film animation, writes Chloe Stothart....
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London Met staff win contract fight
London Metropolitan University was last week ordered to pay £160,000 to 23 staff in what is thought to be the first "class action" in higher education for unfair dismissal. An employment tribunal...