Ministers back teaching centre
The Commonwealth this week cleared the path for the creation of a centre of excellence for teacher education at Cambridge University. The plan was endorsed at the three-yearly meeting of Commonwealth...
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Oxford rapped over Wilkie
One of the leaders of last year's academic boycott of Israel attacked Oxford University this week for meting out a "wholly disproportionate punishment" to a professor who rejected a student who had...
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Grand designs for scholarship
Over £260m of public and private cash is going into two campus revamps. The THES reports MIDDLESEX Middlesex University will close its smaller campuses and focus on three sites as part of a £100...
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QAA slated over 'hasty' verdict on foundations
Quality watchdogs have been accused of unfairly maligning foundation degrees in a "prejudicial and premature" report that criticises the quality of the government's new flagship qualification. As The...
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More support makes the road to PhD less rocky
With doctoral supervision set to undergo radical change, Chris Bunting kicks off a THES series tracking four students over the duration of their research. The PhD thesis was so awful that there...
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Cash in the bank, eyes on the goal
Jane Suter is unusually focused for a doctoral student. She has a very clear idea of her direction of research -which may take only two years -and a distinction in her MSc means that she is well...
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Optimist looks to fruitful alliance
Russian Alisa Chukanova has just arrived at Southampton University to start her PhD and is feeling hopeful about a future in UK academia: "I just came yesterday. My first impression is very good. If...
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Bursary to reveal diverse identity
Helen Taylor's commitment to refugee causes gives her PhD in refugee studies at the University of East London the air of a personal mission. "This is a crucial field, especially with the negative...
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Nobel path to medical benefits
It came as a bit of a shock to Lisa Willats when, two weeks after she started her PhD, the men who pioneered her area of research, magnetic-resonance imaging, were awarded a Nobel prize. "It put a...
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After the deluge, the real troubles begin
A unique centre studying the impact of floods on people is at risk if funding is concentrated. Anna Fazackerley reports What happens to flood victims in the UK when the water levels have gone down...
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Not much ebony in the oldest of our ivory towers
Although ethnic minorities are overrepresented in higher education they are still thin on the ground in old universities, says Trevor Phillips, and top-up fees will only widen this inequality. Having...
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All News Is Good News inside the 'image factory'
On his first day, PR maven Ted Prince sees his boss turn the downhill slide of a French farce into a wild success. The first day in any new job can be a challenge. But it's especially daunting when...
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The measure of imperial rulers
Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...
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More support makes the road to PhD less rocky
With doctoral supervision set to undergo radical change, Chris Bunting kicks off a THES series tracking four students over the duration of their research. The PhD thesis was so awful that there...
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Cash in the bank, eyes on the goal
Jane Suter is unusually focused for a doctoral student. She has a very clear idea of her direction of research -which may take only two years -and a distinction in her MSc means that she is well...