Why I... am disillusioned with degrees
Time and experience have made me a dab hand at fare dodging. God save the persecuted touts that lurk in the corners of London Underground! I have them to thank for almost affordable travel cards....
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A law for the jungle
We should extend the right to liberty and equality to non-human animals, argues Steven Wise. The shock and novelty of the idea that basic legal rights for at least some non-human animals should be...
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Let's call it protection money
Differential fees have a crucial role to play in a mass system, argues Gordon Graham. Over the past ten years, British universities, like their US counterparts before them, have been democratised....
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Brunel sells campus and plans restructure
Brunel University has sold its Twickenham campus and unveiled plans to further restructure while offering its staff "incentives for excellence". The campus, a six-hectare riverside site, has been...
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Network funds better mental-health teaching
Four subject centres have received £75,000 for joint work to improve approaches to mental-health teaching in higher education. The centres plan to draft a code of good practice, develop web teaching...
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Department report details spending
The annual report of the Department for Education and Skills, formerly the Department of Education and Employment, was published this week. The departmental report details spending plans in all...
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Academic age equates to answer to everything
The answer to life, the universe and everything is also the average age of all academic staff - 42 - according to data published this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The total number...
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Universities unite in call to hike fees
Ministers will face increased pressure to raise student tuition fees if the government does not give universities enough cash in next month's comprehensive spending review. The THES has found growing...
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Next week
News Borderless future for Britain's universities Features No more exotic: Jeremy MacClancy, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Alex De Waal debate the changing face of anthropology Stressed out? David...
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Women still rising in Scotland
The percentage of women in Scottish higher education has risen in the past ten years, the Scottish Executive has said. In 1989-90, 44 per cent of students were female. This rose to 55 per cent by...
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Belfast gang target institute's Catholics
The Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education had to close for a day when a gang threatened students after four nights of rioting in the city. The gang burst into the Tower Street section of...
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Geographers told their subject is in danger
The breadth and status of geography is in danger of being undermined as universities restructure their disciplines and faculties, the president of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British...
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UK pushes businesses to join global research
The government has doubled the number of scientific attaches in British embassies and expanded the International Technology Service to try to foster more collaboration between UK business and foreign...
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Hodge tells universities to attack world market
British institutions must be dynamic and responsive to the global market, higher education minister Margaret Hodge will tell a conference on the future of higher education today. Ms Hodge will say: "...
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Institutions line up to join e-university
The e-university - now called UK eUniversities Worldwide - has received more than 65 partnership proposals from 28 institutions to provide online degrees. It says it is on track to launch its first...