Doubts over lure of academy
Doubts are emerging over the new higher education academy's ability to attract members without compulsion or significant reward. Liz Allen, a national official at lecturers' union Natfhe and a member...
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Postcode premium is failing to deliver goods
The postcode premium approach to widening access is inefficient and unjust, according to two Northern Irish researchers. Bob Osborne, from Ulster University, and Ian Shuttleworth, from Queen's...
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Survey brings bad news if you're young and male
Older undergraduates and women do better across a range of university subjects than teenage schoolleavers and men, according to analysis from two universities. Also, state-educated students tend to...
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Former editor honoured
Auriol Stevens, former editor of The THES , has been awarded an honorary degree by the Southampton Institute. A commentator and analyst, she was made a doctor of letters for her contribution to...
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Bursar suspended
Roger Salmon, bursar of King's College, Cambridge, has been suspended, but no reason has been given for the move by university officials. "I can't even tell you whether or not he's been suspended on...
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Pembroke turns to MI6
Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, has been elected master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He will take over next August when his five-year Secret Intelligence Service contract ends. Until then,...
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£5 million for spin-offs
The recently floated IP2IPO, which helped fund Oxford University's new chemistry building in exchange for equity in any companies spun off from research conducted there, has put aside a £5 million...
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Correction
The £900,000 that Middlesex University repaid to the Higher Education Funding Council for England ("Research elite winners in 'special pot' league", THES , November 7) was the partial repayment of a...
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Racing town is a campus favourite
Plans to turn Musselburgh, a small seaside town on the outskirts of Edinburgh, into the "St Andrews of East Lothian", boasting a 14-hectare higher education campus, have been unveiled. The town's...
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Scientists slam degree silence
The government is risking the future of UK science education with its reluctance to address concerns over masters courses raised in talks on the Bologna process, according to physicists and chemists...
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Media courses cull inevitable if funding cuts get thumbs up
A cull of media studies courses is inevitable if funding chiefs persist with plans to cut funding for teaching, a conference will hear this weekend. Members of the Association of Media Practice...
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Swiss log on to lobby for change
Swiss academics are turning to the web to draw attention to cases of alleged character assassination and intimidation in universities. They claim that universities have taken too much power from...
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Scholars asked to save islands
Venice's abandoned outer islands are seeking new tenants to restore their decaying grandeur - universities and research institutes. A couple have been saved by transforming their crumbling ruins into...
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Recruiting fraud scandal rocks Dutch
A report on student registration frauds ordered by the Dutch education ministry has been delayed and will not meet its original deadline of December 31. But an independent investigation claims that...
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Overhaul of Turkish institutions shelved
The Turkish government has shelved plans to assume direct control of universities and dismiss their rectors and deans after a wave of criticism from academics and the media. The Islamic-based...