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EPSRC pilots combined grants programme The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has approved plans to consolidate grants into large five-year tranches for big research teams that...
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Madison The University of Wisconsin System is to suspend undergraduate admissions pending confirmation of budget cuts by the state legislature. The university faces a $20 million (£14 million) cut on...
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Next week
News Ivory towers and golden hoards: the lure of IPR in academe. Features Carmen's many celluloid incarnations. The roots of Hindu extremism in India. Michael Loughlin rails against management-speak...
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Chiefs dig in heels over participation
Universities will take on the government by refusing to recruit more students unless they get the money to do so. University leaders have warned ministers that their 50 per cent participation target...
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'Justify huge v-c pay rises'
Sir Howard takes institutions to task. Pay rises awarded to vice-chancellors are being investigated by the English funding council, it emerged this week. Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the...
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Gay men suffer shortfall in salary
Gay men in the United Kingdom face discrimination when it comes to pay, despite having a higher level of education. But they still earn more than the UK average. A team of economists analysed the...
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Academic life is hell - official
It is official: lecturers are being pressured into teaching longer hours, sometimes in breach of their contracts, in increasingly large classes, with less time for contact with their students and...
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News in brief
'Lower expectations', Chinese warned The British Council has said that Chinese students and their parents need to be better informed about higher education courses in the United Kingdom. The comments...
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Students protest about review
Students at the University of Durham occupied the library this week in protest at possible departmental closures as part of the university's review of academic and administrative operations. The...
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Welsh plan gets mixed response
Higher education leaders in Wales have given a mixed response to Welsh Assembly proposals for reorganisation of the sector. Some vice-chancellors welcomed the news that the assembly planned to raise...
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Chiefs outline strict sanctions
Further education funding chiefs have spelled out exactly when they would intervene in the management of a "failing" college and when closure would be a possibility. Guidelines published by the...
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'Excellence in colleges requires funds'
The principal of a "financially weak" college that has gained top-quality grades from Ofsted inspectors has warned that excellence in further education will be impossible without significantly better...
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QAA report fingers FE
All 11 courses judged by inspectors to be failing last year were degree and diploma courses offered by five colleges of further education, the annual report of the Quality Assurance Agency has...
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Rights tribunal decision
Universities will not receive indemnity if they infringe the copyrights of authors who have excluded themselves from the Copyright Licensing Agency's licence scheme. At the final hearing of the...
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Have attitudes changed?
Peer observation of teaching is being held up as the next big quality tool. But will staff want to score one another? The THES reports. I recently studied the introduction of peer observation in...