Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Karen Mattick Age : 31 Job : Lecturer in clinical education, Peninsula Medical School, a partnership between...
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100 new chairs created in bid to lift RAE scores
More than 100 new chairs are being created by UK universities in a multimillion-pound restructuring drive aimed at securing them top marks in the next research assessment exercise. As research...
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Women trail in spin-offs
Female scientists are at a disadvantage in commercialising academic research, a study by Stirling University's Centre for Entrepreneurship has found. A review of information from 20 leading...
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Luton makes it harder to fail amid dumbing-down fears
New rules to allow students to study "without fear of failure" in their first year have been agreed at Luton University in response to concerns that more than a quarter drop out. Amid claims that the...
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Dropout rates are down while access drive has little impact
Universities are making slow progress in cutting dropout rates and their efforts to recruit more poor students are also sluggish, according to the latest performance indicators. The proportion of...
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UEL takes steps to tackle first-year failure rate
Former higher education minister Margaret Hodge famously linked so-called Mickey Mouse degrees with the unacceptably high dropout rates found at institutions such as the University of East London,...
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Honours may lose to foundations
There may be no new money to pay for an extra 10,000 places on the government's flagship foundation degree courses next year, sparking fears that universities and colleges may have to divert cash...
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New spin on games of chance
A further education college in Blackpool has created a mock casino for training would-be croupiers to work in the seaside town's planned Las Vegas-style gambling resort, writes Tony Tysome. Graduates...
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Cash bid failure sparks FE fears
Up to 70,000 students could find themselves shut out of college this year after English further education funding chiefs this week admitted they had turned down bids for extra places worth £30...
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Scots colleges return to the black
Scottish colleges have seen a deficit of more than £14 million turn into a £2.3 million surplus in one year. The financial watchdog Audit Scotland says the majority of Scotland's 42 colleges of...
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Lambert calls for £200m to aid industry research
* Extra cash for new funding stream * Better-run universities should get greater financial freedoms * Code of conduct for governance established The government should plough up to £200 million more...
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When good work is not rewarded
A unique Greenwich University research centre could be hit by funding policies despite its exemplary work with industry, according to the Lambert report. Greenwich's Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids...
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Best thing since sliced bread fails
It might have been the best thing since sliced bread - a loaf. The concept that Michael Emes and colleagues at Manchester University proposed - genetically modifying wheat to alter its starch quality...
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Recommendations in full
Demand for research from business * Businesses should establish a high-level forum to enhance technical innovation in business * The government should direct a high proportion of its support for...
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Crossing the divide
Liverpool John Moores University is leading a consortium that aims to include entrepreneurship in student work experience. The consortium has set up a free brokerage service called the Business...