Brown: let's see how UK elite measures up
An international league table of universities should be drawn up to show how Britain's research-intensive institutions compare with the rest of the world, according to Gordon Brown, the Chancellor,...
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eMerlin lays a pipeline to stars
The astronomers admired the roadside machinery as the drill bit negotiated its way a metre below the well-trimmed verges and neat gravel driveways. Its ingenious design appealed to their problem-...
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Coventry sets fee level
Coventry University has announced that it will charge £3,000 a year for all its courses from 2006 to ensure that no courses are seen as more exclusive than others. Michael Goldstein, Coventry's vice-...
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Applications increase
The number of applicants for undergraduate places before the June 30 deadline for clearing rose by 2.9 per cent this year to 450,147, according to latest figures from the Universities and Colleges...
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Graduates boost UK plc
Graduates add at least £1 billion a year to the UK economy - a fact apparently appreciated by employers, who recruited 15.5 per cent more of them this year. Research conducted for the Association of...
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Scottish setback
Universities Scotland and the Association of Scottish Colleges have issued a joint statement calling for a substantial rewriting of draft legislation to merge Scotland's higher and further education...
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GM business eyes US
German firm BASF, one of Europe's leading proponents of genetic modification technology, could follow agribusiness Syngenta's lead by pursuing its research into GM crops in the US. Jurgen Hambrecht,...
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Treasury chastised
The Treasury's decision to exclude other government departments from discussions about the £65 million Cambridge-MIT Institute was "difficult to justify", according to a report by the House of...
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Merged union likely
A single super-union representing more than 100,000 lecturers could be agreed by next spring following talks between Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers. Following a meeting hosted by...
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Club together to get more cash, Oxford colleges told
Oxford University should follow the example of Yale and Harvard universities and establish a single in-house "investment club" to make better use of its £2.1 billion in assets, two influential...
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Watchdog warning over state intrusion
QAA chair says self-review at risk if standards aren't upheld. Phil Baty reports. Universities could face intrusive Ofsted-style inspections if the current system for monitoring academic standards...
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Lengthy code gets a rewrite
The code of practice detailing how universities should uphold their academic standards spans ten separate volumes, is more than 200 pages long and has, up to now, weighed heavy on the consciences of...
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V-cs criticise 'unacceptable' inconsistency among reviewers
Universities can be publicly damned or praised depending on which reviewers turn up to undertake inspections, it was claimed this week. Academics and vice-chancellors criticised the "inconsistency"...
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Gats fear spurs action on quality
International university leaders are striving to build a framework to regulate delivery of quality higher education across national boundaries, which they hope will head off initiatives such as the...
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Euro network to dish out advice on reform
A think-tank based at Munich University has been contracted by the European Commission to publicise research findings on university reform. Ludger Wössmann, head of the university's human capital and...