'Fast-food' history proves unpalatable
Historians have complained that the modular system of teaching history is subjecting undergraduates to "an unwholesome diet of fast academic food". A survey by the magazine History Today found that...
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Twin sisters awarded identical degrees
Twins Helen and Jane Barraclough are graduating from the University of Manchester with first-class degrees in biological sciences this week. The twins got exactly the same GCSE results and achieved...
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King's College set to test athletes for drugs
The Drug Control Centre at King's College London will test athletes at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, which begin next week. Some 4,000 athletes are due to take part in the games. The centre...
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Merton students top Oxford degree table
Students at Merton College gained the best degrees in Oxford University, according to this year's Norrington table. The table, which ranks colleges by the class of degrees gained, puts St John's...
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A man of letters
Kingston University has a new chairman of its board of governors, Jerry Cope. For his day job, Mr Cope represents Royal Mail on the board of the troubled Consignia group. Consignia announced record £...
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Why I ...believe the PhD is in danger of becoming a joke
British academics have traditionally prided themselves on the academic rigour of their research and their ability to produce useful outcomes in terms of completed projects and publications. Their...
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What £1.25bn really means to scientists
Stephen Winter , head of the 3a-rated computer science department at Westminster University, was hoping to see money made available for improving departments. He said: "Our department has steadily...
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Whistleblowers: UCE serves court order on defiant ex-lecturer
The University of Central England has begun court proceedings to recover almost £10,000 it claims was wrongly paid to former lecturer Elizabeth Hall, after a THES investigation found that she had...
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College tutors in work to rule
Further education colleges could lose up to 150,000 hours a week of their staff's time after lecturers introduced a work to rule. The action, taken in protest against a 2.3 per cent pay offer,...
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Insurers pose threat to cancer research
Cancer research and prevention programmes could be jeopardised by pressure from the insurance industry for people to declare the results of genetic testing, medical experts have warned. Researchers...
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Staff fail to halt London merger
The merger of London Guildhall University and the University of North London will go ahead in a fortnight despite votes of no confidence in its two leaders and the absence of a financial director....
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Scotland clinches Iran oil deal
Scottish Knowledge has signed a $1 million (£650,000) deal with the Iranian National Oil Company to modernise a petroleum institute, writes Alison Goddard. Under the deal, Scottish universities will...
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Afrikaners object to enforced English
Afrikaners have protested to the South African government over its decision to "force" English teaching at Afrikaans universities. A leading pressure group has said ministers are making the same...
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Grade bandwagon runs wild
Top universities in the US have been caught up on the grade inflation bandwagon, and they fear that they cannot get off. After the disclosure that Harvard University had been awarding honours to more...
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Why Bude is a poco Español
Ecologists have rebranded parts of southern Cornwall as more continental than English in a pilot study of European land use, vegetation and climate. Researchers made the links while comparing British...