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Lecturers' union leaders have welcomed an announcement from John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, that further education lecturers will be included in a two-year, £700 million scheme to provide...
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Ice-bound pursuits
Two Bangor University scientists are joining an expedition to lock a ship into drifting pack ice in the frozen seas of Antarctica for several months. They will take samples from the ice floe as they...
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Arts initiative axed
Plans to create a national federal university of the arts have been shelved by the UK Arts and Design Institutions' Association. Vaughan Grylls, Ukadia chairman and director of the Kent Institute of...
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Horticultural cash fillip
A centre of excellence for horticultural research has been created at Warwick University, with backing from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Simon Bright, former head of...
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Laboratory of life
Stirling University will next week launch an international observatory on learning regions, which aims to encourage government-led partnerships to improve the quality of people's lives. Stirling...
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It's last orders at Aberdeen
Is time being called on that traditional hub of student life, the union bar? On Saturday, the doors of Aberdeen University student union will close for the last time as a result of plummeting bar...
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Scots access initiative conceals inequalities
Scotland's much-vaunted 50 per cent student participation rate in higher education "disguises deep and entrenched educational inequalities", an expert on lifelong learning has warned, writes Olga...
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Sociology has identity crisis
The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting Sociology is suffering a damaging identity "crisis", a meeting of the British Sociological Association concluded...
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Sex taboos on agenda
The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting Is it OK to sleep with your students? was just one of the many thousands of questions posed at this year's British...
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Fighting talk turns web forums into intellectual punch-ups
The Times Higher reports from this week's British Sociological Association meeting A culture of tribal aggression has taken over many web-based communities, leading academics to dub such groups "...
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Fear over legality of complaint watchdog
The student complaints ombudsman, which opens for business next week, could breach human rights laws, experts have warned. University law professors and campaigners said this week that the scheme to...
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Face to face
Richard Harries, the bishop of Oxford, and Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology as applied to medicine at University College London, locked horns last week during a debate on whether religion should...
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Axe falls on Swansea departments
Swansea University's governing council has voted to go ahead with plans to close three departments and axe undergraduate teaching in another. Governors voted three to one, at a council meeting on...
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UCL envisages study quarter
University College London hopes to establish a university quarter in the capital, creating a largely traffic-free oasis around the Bloomsbury area. A coherent urban campus shared by the Bloomsbury...
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Former minister voices fee concerns
Less popular universities that cannot charge high top-up fees should be subsidised by the state, according to Tessa Blackstone, the former higher education minister who was appointed vice-chancellor...