Fast-track plan for starred A levels
New A-level grades, including a top A**, could be introduced within three years as part of reforms to the 14-to-19 exam system, ministers will be told. The Times Higher has learnt that Mike Tomlinson...
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'It's true, it is more difficult to prise the last secrets out of nature'
Lyn Evans has spent most of his career at Cern, which this week marked its 50th anniversary. Dr Evans will take the particle physics laboratory into its next half-century and will oversee the...
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On the move...
* Brian Waggett has been elected president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers for 2004-05, succeeding Judith Rowley. He has served as an executive member since 1994 and as branch secretary...
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Big 15 to tackle RAE gamesters
Hefce recruits top names to oversee 2008 research exercise. Anna Fazackerley reports Fifteen "big name" research figures were this week appointed as chairs of the main panels in the new-look research...
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Your life in their hands - panel chairs revealed
* Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, deputy rector, Imperial College London Cardiovascular medicine, cancer studies, infection and immunology, other hospital-based and lab-based clinical subjects * Maggie...
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From rumour to revelation
The law of unintended consequences may have been at work when Gerry McKenna, the vice-chancellor of Ulster University, sent an email to staff to counter "misleading and inaccurate" speculation about...
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London Met wins bid to halt strike
London Metropolitan University won a victory in its dispute with lecturers' union Natfhe this week when it secured an injunction preventing strike action. The injunction ruled out any industrial...
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Scottish spend soars
Scottish higher and further education this week won a 33 per cent funding increase as the ruling Executive unveiled spending plans for the next three years. Andy Kerr, Scotland's Finance Minister,...
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Injunction lifted
Kingston University has succeeded in getting an injunction served by a student lifted. Francois Greeff, who has bipolar affective disorder, was studying for a masters in business studies. He was...
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Services fail to thrive
More than half of London businesses are unaware of the services offered by the capital's universities and business schools.Many others are put off by the costs. A survey of the 3,500 members of the...
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Principal to retire
Bill Stevely, principal of Robert Gordon University since 1997, will retire next August. Professor Stevely, who was awarded the CBE for services to higher education in this year's Queen's Birthday...
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Police hunt for clues
Academic archaeologists from Bradford and Birmingham universities are overseeing the new police operation to uncover clues into the murder of PC Keith Blakelock 19 years ago during the Broadwater...
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UK sees visa refusals soar
Chris Johnston reports on the impact of falling overseas numbers The number of foreign students entering the UK fell last year as more visa applications were rejected and higher charges were imposed...
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'It was a very difficult experience - we came out feeling like criminals'
Nataliya Suchok, 18, from Kiev, Ukraine, applied to study a full-time BTec national diploma in health studies at North West Kent College in June, but her application was refused on July 13. The...