Germany eyes market for foreign postgraduates
Germany is to try to attract more top postgraduate students from around the world in an effort to compete with universities in France, the US and the UK. Berlin's drive coincides with a renewed...
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Italy struggles to keep Marconi archive intact
Italy's hard-pressed universities may be unable to meet a plea from the daughter of wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi to purchase a collection of her father's archives and apparatus. The...
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Don quits over Lomborg furore
A leading Danish academic has resigned from the board of the country's Institute for Environmental Assessment after it rejected his call for the suspension of director Bjørn Lomborg. Poul Harremoës,...
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80% admit to cheating
Students on Australian campuses are copying material from the internet and textbooks, submitting work by previous students, collaborating on assignments and hiring someone more knowledgeable in a...
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King Alfred's, Winchester
Undergraduates 4,220 Postgraduates 930 Students from low social classes % Hefce teaching income £5.5m Hefce research income £173,000 Income from Hefce 47% King Alfred’s College in Winchester has a...
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Pioneering degree falls under QAA fire
Quality watchdogs have "no confidence" in the academic standard of a pioneering Sheffield University degree offered through its partner, Barnsley College. In a review of Barnsley's combined studies (...
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Keep them busy to keep them on
Setting students assignments as soon as they arrive at university could help cut dropout rates, according to researchers at Ulster University. Tony Cook of UU's faculty of life and health sciences is...
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Campuses adapt to overseas influx
Continued growth in the number of overseas students recruited by UK universities is forcing institutions to rethink campus culture and their student financial support arrangements. New figures from...
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Social work degree lifts off
Fifty-two universities have been licensed to offer the new social work degree. The degree will replace the two-year diploma as the qualification for social workers. It is part of a government drive...
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Minister: blow the whistle on bribes
Russian education minister Vladimir Filippov is planning to crack down on corruption in universities as he pushes ahead with higher education reforms. Mr Filippov, former rector of the People's...
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Harry Kroto
'"Jaws" was attacking my bumper, trying to shove me into the slow lane. Why are cars getting larger when we need greater fuel efficiency?' If we are to make better use of our resources, we need look...
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A little off colour
Sir Gareth Roberts may enjoy a high-flying academic career but, as a lifelong supporter of Tottenham Hotspur, he has also had to endure years of frustrated ambition. His review of the supply of...
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Degree of desperation
The Diary would like to congratulate St Jude's University College, which has come a long way in recent times. Casting an eye over the institution's website, the extent of the college's former...
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Getting tough on toffs
Two suggestions for the name of the access regulator - an independent body that will assess universities' performance in widening participation, announced by Labour this week - have crossed our desk...
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Germaine has Popstar rival
Feminist icon Germaine Greer is again in the frame for the rectorship of a Scottish university. Beaten in the St Andrews University rectorial by former Liberal MP Sir Clement Freud, she seems likely...