Staff stress could lead to court
Universities were warned this week that they could face prosecution over stress levels among their staff after it emerged that health and safety inspectors had already taken unprecedented action over...
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Cats and catering top public demands
After five years of nervous anticipation and an apparent last-minute rush of document shredding, the long-awaited enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act this month seems to have had a less...
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Hefce takes aim at RAE gameplaying
* Full list of sub-panel chairs * New guidelines confront gripes * Measures to tackle snobbery * No barriers for young staff The Higher Education Funding Council for England this week published a...
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Chosen few consider the 'huge task' ahead
The higher education funding councils this week announced the 67 academics who will be responsible for assessing submissions to the 2008 research assessment exercise at subject level, writes Anna...
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Sub-panel chairs for the 2008 research assessment exercise
Cardiovascular medicine , Patrick Vallance, University College London Cancer studies , Peter Selby, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Leeds University Infection and immunology , Andrew McMichael,...
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Access: widening participation in higher education How does where students live, their sex and when they were born influence their chances of getting a degree? Chart the odds of teenagers going to...
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Clearing may see deals on fees
Students who fail to make their A-level grades next year may be able to secure a university place for less money than students who performed better in the exams, it has emerged. Universities will be...
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Medics in debt up to £56K
Tom Burden, a third-year medical student at Peninsula Medical School, expects to be in debt by an intimidating £51,000 by the time he finishes his degree, and new figures suggest that his is not an...
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Target will harm North, study says
The government goal of sending 50 per cent of young people into higher education could "exacerbate" the economic divide between the North East and South East, according to research commissioned by...
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Luton waived entry criteria
Luton University offered places to overseas students who lacked minimum entry requirements, its quality chief warned last year as the university was starting a scheme to delegate overseas admissions...
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Westminster academic feared dead after tsunami
An academic from the Policy Studies Institute at Westminster University is feared dead after the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka. Stephen Lissenburgh was with his two sons Vikram and Nikhil, his wife,...
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Email con targets overseas students
Fraudsters claiming to be from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service are charging would-be overseas students £850 each supposedly to fix university places, visas and jobs, The Times Higher...
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Research councils to fund 80% of real costs
Research councils will cover close to the full cost of research projects from July, the Government has announced, in a surprise move that marks a fundamental shift in the way research by academics is...
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Seven-year hitch casts doubt on future of part-time PhDs
Just under a third of full-time PhD students and two thirds of part-timers fail to complete their doctorates within seven years, a report has revealed. The figures, described as "scandalous", raise...
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Men lead the way as more students are awarded firsts
The proportion of students gaining first-class honours degrees increased again last year from 10 per cent to 11 per cent, figures revealed this week. The figures from the Higher Education Statistics...