University status given
The Privy Council this week granted a university title to the former Roehampton Institute, which has been part of the federated Surrey University since 2000. Roehampton can use the university title...
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Bogus colleges probed
More than 100 colleges in England and Wales are being investigated by police after being exposed as bogus institutions acting as a front for an immigration scam, the Home Office said this week. The...
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Science cull denied
Managers at North East Wales Institute have denied claims by union leaders that they are planning to make 19 science department staff redundant. A Newi spokesman said this week that a range of...
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Entries online by 2006
The days of filling in paper application forms to university look numbered as admissions chiefs plan to go fully electronic by 2006. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service will work with...
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NI campus to close
Queen's University Belfast is to close its outreach campus in Northern Ireland's third city of Armagh not far from the border with the Irish Republic. Launched in a blaze of publicity almost a decade...
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Tissues bill amended
The Human Tissues Bill has been modified following fears that it would criminalise medical research. In its original form, the bill outlawed research using any human tissue without explicit prior...
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UHI sets 2007 target
Jack McConnell, Scotland's First Minister, has said he expects the UHI Millennium Institute to achieve university status by 2007, Scotland's Year of Highland Culture. This is the institute's own...
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Cash won't cut red tape
Big cash increases for clinical research may not stop pharmaceutical companies leaving the country unless the Government acts to reduce the bureaucracy stifling research, senior scientists warned...
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UK's 'smart' research policy is praised by top US adviser
A top US science adviser has praised the UK Government's science policy saying he wished that American leaders had the same vision. Charles Wessner, director of the technology and innovation...
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Keep your children and hobbies to yourself
Don't clutter your CV with irrelevant detail: keep it clear, brief and - most important - honest, says Susan Bassnett. It's curious how many academics have trouble presenting themselves and their...
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Jobwatch: Queen's bid for top 20
Northern Ireland universities face difficulties in fundraising due to the lack of big industries in the Province, but Queen's University Belfast has not let this deter it from aiming for the top....
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Who got that job?
Louise Kirk Lecturer / Senior Lecturer Course Leader - Footwear Design Job advertised in The Times Higher September 19 2003. Shoe design has been offered as a degree course at De Montfort University...
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I could not have put it better - so I won't
More foreign than home students are caught plagiarising. This may be due to language, stress and different cultural traditions, Harriet Swain finds. Cheat sites offering ready-made student essays...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Name :Suanne Gibson Age : 31 Job : Lecturer on disability and inclusion since 2001, and director of BA education studies programme since 2003, Plymouth University...
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Lords in gap year victory
The Government has caved in to a demand from the House of Lords to waive top-up fees for all students who defer university places in 2005 to take a gap year just before the new variable fees regime...