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Universities face £3 billion bill for building repairs A third of British university buildings still need significant repairs costing £3 billion despite an overall improvement in the general...
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Inquiry held into Star Wars cover up One of America's most prestigious universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said yesterday that it had begun an inquiry into claims that its...
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Students rail at cut in lectures
Bath University students are demanding a 20 per cent reduction in fees to compensate for a 20 per cent cut in lecture time. The university has asked all departments to submit plans for cutting...
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Natfhe backs peer review of teaching
A national framework for rewarding university teaching through peer review is being devised by lecturers' union Natfhe. In a consultation report out this week, Natfhe says the framework would mirror...
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Burn the thermals and pack your bags
It is set to be a happy new year for the country's geographers, who will no longer have to put on double layers of thermals or endure unpredictable transport and freezing lecture theatres to attend...
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Unit mulls moody side
The effects of natural mood-altering substances such as herbs and essential oils are to come under the microscope thanks to the success of Northumbria University's Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit,...
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Whistleblowers: Lecturer stands down over internet degrees
Doncaster College lecturer Philip Dunn has resigned during a disciplinary investigation into his role in an internet business that sells unrecognised degrees and makes false claims to academic and...
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Whistleblowers: Luton asks staff to enrol on its courses
Staff at Luton University have been encouraged to enrol as students on its courses in an apparent attempt to maintain numbers. In a memo to all staff at the end of November, Luton's deputy vice-...
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E-university takes technology to market
The UK's e-university hopes to sell some of the support services, technology and applications in its global online-learning business to domestic universities. Under the plan, UKeU would offer...
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Prison for McCulloch
Lesley McCulloch, the former lecturer at the University of Tasmania held for visa violations in the Indonesian province of Aceh, has been sentenced to five months' imprisonment, but is expected to be...
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OU pulls in under-24s
The Open University has received more applications from people aged under 24 years than ever before. Numbers have risen about 20 per cent over the past 12 months, continuing a five-year upward trend...
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Play wins Italian prize
John Barrow, professor in the University of Cambridge's department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, has won Italy's equivalent of the Olivier theatre prize for his play Infinities ,...
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Merger on the cards
Paisley University and Bell College could be the latest higher education institutions to contemplate merger. The two, which already work together at the Crichton campus in Dumfries, have announced...
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Civil defence probe
The House of Commons science and technology select committee has launched an inquiry into how British science is contributing to the country's defence against chemical or biological terrorist attack...
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Hefce transition fund
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced a transition fund between the winding-up of the Higher Education Reach-out to Business and the Community (Herobc) initiative and the...