Artist's £75,000 chance
Self-taught Fife artist Jack Vettriano is funding a scholarship to let a disadvantaged student attend St Andrews University. The artist, whose most famous work, The Singing Butler , sold for...
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St Paul's defiled by drunks and tourists
It was St Paul's Cathedral's lowest ebb. Schoolchildren smashed windows, drunks defecated on the floor and tourists climbed the crumbling spire to drop stones on to people below. Even some of the...
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Peers seek to secure future
Peers could force a new clause into the higher education bill to ensure that no future government could claw back extra top-up fee income by cutting public funding for universities. A widely...
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York's plan to expand will create 2,000 jobs
York University is planning to double in size over the next decade in a move expected to create about 2,000 jobs, including 1,000 academic positions. The university plans to introduce a range of new...
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Be-spoke travel
William Hoedeman and Claire McNamara are among the 350 members of staff and students at York University who can now borrow a bicycle to commute between King's Manor in the city centre and the...
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Why I ...think campus novels reveal the changing identity of university heads
Consider the principal of a redbrick university in the 1950s, "A small ventricose man with a polished, rosy bald head", and a laugh like a sound effect in a horror film. This character had only a...
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Design your own V-C and win £500
Can you create the literary v-c for the top-up fees era? The Times Higher is launching a competition for budding authors to write the opening chapter - 2,000 words - of a satirical novel depicting...
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Bond with chemistry
Australia is backing science with cash and support. The UK should take note, says Andrew Holmes Before the introduction of PhD degrees in Australia, most Australians received their doctoral training...
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PhD comes with straitjacket
What's happened to original thought? The doctoral system seems to have killed it off, says Allan Reese The reputation of the UK PhD, widely viewed as a badge of excellence, is becoming precarious....
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I'm terribly sorry, but a fat cat ate my principles
When the money men sweep through the front door, academic integrity slinks out the back, says Valerie Atkinson. There comes a point in the academic year, just hours before degree results are...
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Jobwatch: RAE Supertanker Steerer
Whoever manages the 2008 RAE will have to oversee the selection of 1,000 panel members and the processing of more than 2 million research submissions. Chris Johnston reports One of the biggest...
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Who got that job?
Marc McGee University of Bristol City Solicitor's Educational Trust Lecturer in Contract & Tort Job advertised in The Times Higher , February 6 2004 Marc McGee is living proof that cross-...
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Viva the mock! It's more than a rehearsal
PhD interview practice doesn't mean just a trial run. If done well, it can even help the student refine their thesis, say Penny Tinkler and Carolyn Jackson.
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Mandy Garner asks teachers how they manage. Name : Mohammed Yunis Alam Age : 37 Job : University teacher/research assistant in the department of social sciences...
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QAA fails 'out-of-date' course at Barnsley
A second university-validated degree course at Barnsley College has been failed by quality watchdogs after they found that some teaching material was up to 20 years out of date. In an academic review...