Access study to ignore medics
A government report on how to widen access to key public-sector professions will no longer look at medicine, despite evidence that medical school applications are still dominated by the highest...
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Will UK soon be lost for words on world stage?
Charles Clarke stresses the importance of minority languages, while key modern languages are allowed to decline. Anthea Lipsett reports on mixed messages "No one could speak Arabic in the Central...
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Global developments mean Anglophone insularity needs to be tackled
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...
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UK may lose edge in global market
A "tidal wave" of English learning that will leave half the world's population able to speak English within a decade could wipe out part of the UK's competitive advantage in the overseas higher...
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Oxford calling
The Marconi Corporation has donated an unrivalled collection of wireless artefacts to Oxford University, including the microphone used by Dame Nellie Melba during the world's first live...
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QAA could face EU market
UK universities would be able to opt out of the Quality Assurance Agency's audit scheme under a European Commission plan. A draft recommendation on quality assurance published by the Commission last...
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E-learning to get own quality initiative
A European kitemarking scheme for online higher education will be launched next year in a bid to address the lack of confidence in the quality of e-learning. The European Foundation for Quality in E-...
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Creative spirit nets £31m spin-off income
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in UK universities, according to figures that show the number of inventions up 72 per cent and total licensing income up nearly 40 per cent in a year....
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Best of the bright sparks
Martin Ince dissects the data to identify centres of science-based excellence The Times Higher World University Rankings (November 5) provoked a global debate among academics and the media about...
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Cambridge impresses its peers
Martin Ince dissects the data to identify centres of science-based excellence Cambridge University is regarded as the best for science by academic observers. Its closest UK rival, Oxford University,...
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Industrial ties keep US in prime position - but India is not far behind
Martin Ince dissects the data to identify centres of science-based excellence Big US institutions with strong industrial connections are in pole position in our table of the world's top universities...
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Citations not restricted to university sector
Martin Ince dissects the data to identify centres of science-based excellence How good a researcher would you be if you did not have all those students to worry about? One answer comes from The Times...
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'Islands of excellence in a sea of mediocrity'
A government committee on higher education reforms described the Indian Institutes of Technology as "islands of excellence in a sea of mediocrity", commending them as a model for other universities....
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Brussels
European Union justice and home affairs ministers have agreed that non-EU nationals admitted to member states as scientific researchers should have equal working conditions, pay and state benefits to...
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Paris
Unesco has launched an Israeli-Palestinian Science Organisation to manage joint research projects involving Israeli and Palestinian professors and lecturers, while directing Israeli expertise towards...