Expert attacks 'fuzzy' subjects
Universities blamed for the popularity of non-traditional A levels as this year's results are published. Universities are driving the rapid growth of "fuzzy" A-level subjects such as psychology and...
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Middlesex's gr8 idea for 'generation txt'
Students who fail to make the grade at A level will be able to text-message their way to a higher education place under a new clearing system at Middlesex University, writes Paul Hill. The university...
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Wages of sin are not bad
Hard-pressed academics in the UK often turn to extracurricular activities to make ends meet - consulting, external examining and perhaps a spot of paid marking. But a US social anthropologist with a...
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Clearing, don't you just love it?
The annual clearing round is synonymous with frenzied activity, but at Paisley University all is serene. The inquiry room, which is home to nine staff, is furnished in restful cream and sage, and...
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Next week
AND NOW FOR YOUR NEXT BUREAUCRATIC BURDEN... Full economic costs of research. What will it mean for you? Also Universe all summed up: David Hughes reviews Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality: A...
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Graduate pay shock
The earnings premium of graduates is falling as higher education expands, according to new research. This contradicts the findings of Professor Peter Elias of Warwick University and Dr Kate Purcell...
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SNP plumps for grants
The Scottish National Party claims that giving Scottish students grants rather than loans this year would have saved the public purse £82.5 million and it has pledged to replace loans with grants....
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Notts protest grows
More than 1,000 academics have shown their support for plans for an international boycott of Nottingham University, the Association of University Teachers said this week. The AUT, which is...
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Saudis deny boycott
Saudi Embassy in London has denied a newspaper report that it is urging Saudi students to boycott British universities in protest over spiralling fees and poor-quality courses. In a statement to the...
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Gong for DFES chief
Sir Alan Wilson, Department for Education and Skills director-general of higher education and former vice-chancellor of Leeds University, has won the 2004 European Prize in Regional Science from the...
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QAA lambasts Royal Agricultural College
From its origins educating the landed gentry under the patronage of Queen Victoria, the Royal Agricultural College has been successfully nurturing the rural economy for more than 150 years. But its...
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Seal of approval for novel sealant
A painful paper cut gave an Aberdeen University academic a bloody good idea that has won a business enterprise award for a university spin-off. Ian McEwan, a reader in engineering, was scanning...
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The culling of the 'dinosaurs'
Steve Farrar on the labour pains at Manchester University's museum rebirth. It was the coup de grâce in a struggle that had rumbled around the mummy cases, stuffed birds and dinosaur bones of...
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Council set up to support talented student entrepreneurs
Students with business ideas will be talent-spotted by a new national agency next year as part of a drive to create more graduate entrepreneurs, The Times Higher has learnt. Gordon Brown, the...
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Barnsley lad not a 'leather sofa' type
Derby's new vice-chancellor, John Coyne, sees the value in being true to one's roots, Tony Tysome reports. John Coyne is concerned that the deep leather Chesterfield sofas in his sumptuous office may...