Failure not an option
Complaint procedures give dissatisfied students a powerful arsenal with which they can exact revenge, argues David Warner Almost all higher education institutions will now have procedures to deal...
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A system poisoned by deceit
The dishonesty at the heart of the QAA has left a legacy of institutionalised lies, say Bruce Charlton and Peter Andras The record of the Quality Assurance Agency has until now been one of failure....
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Why I ...believe action should be taken against web stalkers
American and Israeli computer hackers have opened a new front in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the US and the UK. Action on this front has taken the form of identity theft, harassment,...
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Mixed-up males woo wrong birds
For the British farming industry, the discovery that male ostriches appeared to prefer female humans to their own species spelt bad news. Breeding rates were almost unsustainable and now it seems...
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Next week
News Physician, heal thyself: how a doctor used her personal experience of mental illness Features Liz Colley talks captivity and colonialism with Karen Gold. Football crazy: how Manchester fans are...
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University for Suffolk gains momentum
Hopes that Suffolk may get a university were raised this week as the University of East Anglia confirmed that it was examining plans for a new campus for 8,000 students in the county. UEA confirmed...
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RAE rankings comes under fire
The lack of assessment criteria in the research assessment exercise resulted in "propagandist promotional text" and "opinions stated as fact", according to a leading US academic. Eileen Gambrill,...
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Research review casts net wider
A review of research assessment has been launched in the wake of last year's RAE, writes Alison Goddard. Sir Gareth Roberts, president of Wolfson College, Oxford, will chair the steering group. It...
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QAA director signals shake-up
Universities may not have the evidence base needed under the new quality assurance regime to prove to the public that they are maintaining standards, according to the new director of review at the...
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Students choke on bite-sized learning
Huddersfield University is ditching 'fashionable' modularisation for traditional year-long courses. Is this the start of a semesterisation backlash? Alison Utley reports Three years into its search...
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Debt-averse steer clear of access courses
A new national strategy for access to higher education courses is urgently needed, researchers have concluded. Action should be taken to ensure that a higher proportion of students who successfully...
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Music schools attacked
University music schools and traditional conservatoires, the gatekeepers to the world of classical music, have been told to open their doors to black and Asian students from Britain's inner cities. A...
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Dundee's brightest get head start on campus
Four new arrivals at Dundee University are current pupils from Dundee High School, under a pioneering scheme to promote direct entry to the second year. Pupils taking the new Scottish Advanced Higher...
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Whistleblowers: 'Irregularities' continue to dog drink researcher
New evidence of financial and scientific irregularities by leading alcohol researcher Martin Plant has emerged following an investigation by The THES . Edinburgh University this week confirmed for...
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Analysis: Are white coats indelibly stained?
In the wake of the Bell Labs scandal, Steve Farrar asks just how prevalent research fraud really is One-third of the editors of the world's leading academic journals have encountered research fraud....