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The powers-that-be at Nottingham Trent University have devised a clear indication of their regard for the status of foundation degrees. Those graduating with the qualification in summer 2003 will...
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Hussein Jnr's a super guy
A new academic qualification has been created to honour Udai Hussein, eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The University of Baghdad has awarded Udai a "super degree" for his study on the...
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What a sport
Former US president Bill Clinton assisted a damsel in distress while visiting Oxford University last week. He was playing American football when fellow player Claudia Veritas cut her eye. Clinton...
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Brunel plans to set up school for disadvantaged
Brunel University wants to found a school to encourage disadvantaged students to enter higher education. Vice-chancellor Steve Schwartz said: "We are looking for high-achieving pupils who could be...
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Edinburgh fire ruins valuable AI archive
Edinburgh University's School of Informatics is appealing to the world to help it recreate its artificial intelligence archive, lost in the fire that devastated the city's Old Town last weekend. The...
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Italy's rectors resign en masse over 2003 budget cuts
The rectors of Italy's 70 state universities resigned en masse this week in protest at cuts in higher education in the 2003 budget. In an unprecedented gesture, they handed back their mandates as...
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Music schools call for a change of tune
Music professors and conservatoire heads are still contesting their "astonishing" research grades a year after the results were published. The conservatoires believe that assessors took more notice...
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Teaching and salaries push back growth
The government is poised to postpone the bulk of its higher education expansion until the end of the decade, giving priority to raising academic pay and putting more money into university teaching....
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Plea to DTI wins £10m for hi-tech
The recruitment crisis in academic computer science and electronic engineering is putting the UK's chance to benefit commercially from the electronic age in jeopardy, a parliamentary inquiry has...
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In the news: Mary Bousted
Mary Bousted moved into pole position this week in the race to become Britain's highest-paid teachers' union leader. Dr Bousted is the executive committee's choice for the post of general secretary...
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Appointments
* David Gibson , chief executive of the Association of Colleges, has announced that he will retire next August. Mr Gibson, 63, has been chief executive of the organisation for four years. * John...
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Revolt over BNP man
Student activists at Salford University are trying to prevent the youth leader of the British National Party from attending lectures. Tony Wentworth, a politics undergraduate at Salford, has taken...
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Why gay Hitler was a turn-off
As historians gather to debate history and the media, Huw Richards looks at TV history and Peter Hennessey considers the press's recording of events History was not always like this. As television...
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Forgot to mention he's the son of God
As historians gather to debate history and the media, Huw Richards looks at TV history and Peter Hennessey considers the press's recording of events. If the Sermon on the Mount had been a government...
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Don't misunderestimate me in the political studies field
Huw Richards hears Dubya is nobody's fool and reports on a growing interest. "George W. Bush is represented here as a bumbling idiot. He has bumbled, but he is no idiot." By "here" John Owens of the...