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UK strategy for nanotech may be 'too little, too late'
The government's long-awaited nanotechnology strategy, to help the UK tap into a market worth a potential $1 trillion, may be too little, too late, an expert has warned. Commenting on last week's...
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'We'll replace pulped items,' pledges library
The British Library has promised to try to replace documents it has admitted were pulped "with insufficient regard to their research value" in a 1990s book cull, following an investigation by The...
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Scots universities told UK focus is not way forward
The principal of the University of Abertay Dundee has urged Scottish institutions to seize the opportunities offered by devolution and stop worrying about a brain drain south. In a graduation address...
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MPs savage white paper proposals
MPs tore into the government's higher education white paper this week with a report attacking most of its key proposals. The report, published on Thursday by the cross-party education and skills...
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History is at risk in struggling ex-polys
History could be pushed out of new universities as traditional institutions recruit more students, academics warned this week. The first in a series of THES subject reviews shows history departments...
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In the news: Dianne Willcocks
In the current climate there is no place for the modesty that has held back the college sector for so long, according to its new champion Dianne Willcocks. Professor Willcocks intends to let...
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Appointments
Management research initiative AIM has appointed the following research fellows: Elena Antonacopoulou, lecturer in human resources and organisation analysis, Manchester Business School; John Bessant...
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FE focus in plan to widen skills
Further education is at the centre of government plans to close the skills gap between Britain and its competitors. But the extra cash for individual learners comes with strings attached. Other...
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Culture clash threatens to halt Bradford merger
The creation of Britain's first "comprehensive university" via a merger of the University of Bradford with neighbouring Bradford College could be threatened by a disagreement over the drafting of...
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Luton billed for virtual failure
Luton University faces a legal bill of up to £300,000 for its role as a member of a European Commission research consortium that bungled plans to set up a European virtual university, writes Phil...
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E-learning isn't 'geeky', Clarke says
Education secretary Charles Clarke has challenged universities to think more creatively about how to best use e-learning. At the launch of the government's e-learning strategy consultation document...
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First quality watchdog audit pans Chichester
The new university quality regime "may be light touch 0but is certainly no soft touch", the man behind the latest system warned as he published the first audits. One of the two reports, on University...
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Expulsion threat lifted
The University of London has abandoned its threat to expel any college that uses its own degree-awarding powers. The move, made at a council meeting last week, aimed to head off any future rift....
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Joined-up thinking
We urgently need a body to reconcile competing interests in higher education, says Roger Brown The government's confirmation of its intention to allow institutions without research degree-awarding...