Expensive research 'is wasted'
The gulf between academics and policy-makers means that much of the £1.4 billion that the government spends on research each year is wasted, Parliament's spending watchdog has warned. The National...
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UK group to train Egyptians
A British-led consortium has won a £9 million contract to train managers embarking on an ambitious programme to reform Egypt's education system. The Educational Leadership Consortium, headed by...
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Politics up in arms at cuts
Politics departments across England are under threat as funding changes threaten to sever the vital link between research and teaching at a time of increasing student demand. The funding council...
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Dirt dished on errors in soil study guide
Numerous factual errors have been discovered in a University of London study guide used by students for the past six years. A Trinidad-based tutor who lectures students sitting the university's...
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Ultraversity opens to 'lost' students
An online undergraduate degree built around individual learners' needs was launched by Anglia Polytechnic University's Ultralab this week. The first cohort for the Ultraversity degree will be limited...
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Virtual vendors 'fall short'
Virtual learning environment vendors do not provide enough facilities to meet the teaching and learning needs of further and higher education, UK e-learning specialists from more than 40 universities...
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UK film has talent but not backing
British universities have helped fuel the rapid growth of the country's creative industries, but this drive has not been matched by policy-makers, particularly those responsible for film policy,...
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Feed back as a way to go forward
Written comments may be a traditional way to communicate with students, but are they really useful to those on the receiving end, asks Paul Orsmond As a tutor, almost the last thing I do before...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Jane Clarbour Age: 43 Job: Lecturer in social psychology and forensic psychology, University of York. Salary: £23,292...
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Revamped RAE to start a year early
The next research assessment exercise is to be brought forward by 12 months to 2007, forcing universities to begin their preparations within two years. The new timing better aligns the RAE with...
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Academe Asda do better for mums
Universities do less for the work-life balance of their staff than a budget supermarket chain, lecturers' union Natfhe claimed this week. Natfhe said that while women in post-1992 universities got a...
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In the news: Mike O'Brien
Foreign Office minister Mike O'Brien is well remembered at his alma mater, Staffordshire University. "It was North Staffs Polytechnic then, and in 1972 we set up a BA in modern studies and in 1973...
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Appointments
* The Department for Education and Skills has appointed Michael Stevenson , former joint director of factual and learning at the BBC, director of strategy and communications. Mr Stevenson resigned...
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Pay drive faces local hurdles
Academic trade unions are squaring up for an epic pay battle as they come together to fight for a 28 per cent increase in the face of a threatened collapse of national pay bargaining. The three...
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Deliver 'quality people' demands CBI chief
Universities and lecturers must accept their role as training providers for industry or see UK businesses look to overseas institutions for the graduate employees they require, employers' leader...