Mickey Mouse list is 'ignorant'
Universities defended their courses this week after the Conservative Party embroiled them in a row over "Mickey Mouse" degrees. A number of universities and courses were named and shamed by the...
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Athletes swap tutorials for track
British athletes at this weekend's World Championships in Paris will have a psychology professor on hand to get them in the right frame of mind to win medals. But David Collins, team psychologist...
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Kelly furore highlights poor pay of Britain's scientists
One issue being ignored in the political tug-of-war surrounding the late government scientist David Kelly is poor pay for scientists, academics and MPs warned this week. The Hutton inquiry into Dr...
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Cash for Kent to finalise alliance
Deputy prime minister John Prescott has announced £15 million for a collaborative project to create a new university campus for the Medway towns of Kent. The announcement completes the drive to raise...
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Will beauty be Luton bound?
Utter confusion surrounds whether beauty queen Pham Thi Mai Phuong, who was last week reported kidnapped, will go to the ball. The winner of the Miss Vietnam contest has a place at Luton University...
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Uphill path for lifelong learning
The Scottish further and higher education funding councils are doing their bit to promote lifelong learning through the use of an atmospheric landscape of rolling hills in shades of purple. The image...
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Wadham prizes its people
Wadham College, Oxford - known locally as the people's republic of Wadham because of its leftwing politics - has become the first college at Oxford to achieve recognition as an Investor in People for...
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End the quantum pussyfooting
Spotted in PhysicsLand: WANTED $10,000 reward Schrödinger's cat Dead or alive
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Don's diary: Work and play your hearts out
Saturday Another eight-day week in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Scotland's national conservatoire. The RSAMD was the first UK conservatoire to award its own degrees in performance...
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Why I ...think we need to market cerebral sexiness
Peter Crofts, Head of marketing and student recruitment University of Glamorgan Yes, it's clearing again, that time of year when marketing departments are in full swing trying to seduce the remaining...
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Why make life tough?
League tables and game-playing are encouraging pupils to choose 'easier' subjects at A level, argues Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon Minister for educational standards David Miliband has claimed that there...
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It's just politics in a lab coat
While scientists command public respect, they are not necessarily impartial, argues Alice Farrands From BSE to GM by way of MMR, "crises" around scientific issues have been a regular fixture on the...
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Boy prodigy wins place at Oxford at 15 A boy of 15 has won a place at Oxford University after gaining top marks in his maths, further maths, physics and Hebrew A levels. Yadid Hoshen will read...
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Ruthless landlords rip off £5.5m in rent scam
Unscrupulous landlords will wrongfully withhold more than £5.5 million of students' rent deposits this summer, according to a report published this week. About 35,000 students will lose out, say the...
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Midwife students confront 'sexism'
Three student midwives are taking the government, the hospitals where they have placements and their universities to an employment tribunal over their lack of maternity rights. The students, who work...