Challenges for the new year and beyond
Margaret Hodge outlines the government's long-term strategy for addressing the key issues facing higher education. The year 2002 will be one of challenges for higher education - challenges for us in...
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Why I... believe employability need not displace critical citizenship
Teachers of cultural studies and social sciences must address the issue of "employability" more forcefully - not just because the government requires university education to be tied more closely to...
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UK risks patent foul-up
The United Kingdom risks fumbling the exploitation of top research unless universities improve their handling of intellectual property, one of the first "David Beckhams of science" has warned....
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Don't rock the research boat
In fear oflitigation and oftarnished reputations, universities have developed an obsession with ethics that is harming research, argues Frank Furedi. A colleague based at a London university was...
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Radical new order for French science
Jane Marshall meets the woman who has been set the challenge of bringing about a revolution in French scientific research A few years ago France's foremost body of scientific research was criticised...
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Working in a warmer winter wonderland
Caltech's answer to Jack Frost is cooking up snow crystals in sunny California. Steve Farrar reports. One day in 1947, it snowed in Pasadena. Startled children and bemused adults awoke to see this...
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Exit tests to boost English
Voluntary English exit tests are to be introduced at Hong Kong's eight universities in response to growing concerns at falling English standards in the workforce. But there are disagreements about...
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Graduate job vacancies fall
The uncertain economic climate is beginning to have an impact on graduate careers and salaries, a survey of employers has found. Increases in graduate starting salaries are slowing down, graduate job...
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Latest news
Delayed start for new funding arrangements Education secretary Estelle Morris has told MPs that possible changes to student funding arrangements resulting from the Department for Education...
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From today's UK papers
Lower entry standards revealed at universities New evidence that universities are lowering their entry standards was published yesterday by the University and Colleges Admissions Service. Although...
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APPOINTMENTS University College Chichester Richard Bunker , director for education and the arts for West Sussex, has been appointed chair of the university college's governing body. Hong Kong...
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The ubiquity of antiquity
Keith Thomson believes that there are too many museums and that they cost too much money. The answer, he tells Caroline Davis, is a clear out and a decent business plan. Keith Thomson, director of...
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He's as sick as a Flaubert's parrot
Soccer fan Steve Braunias is tackling the literature of the beautiful game on an Oxford fellowship. Huw Richards reports It would be possible to start a lively debate as to which of "football...
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Where high brow meets high jump I
Science has entered the realm of motion - scholarly analyses of the forces, angles and vectors of what many of us came to appreciate as "natural" playground moves are rife throughout British...
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Where high brow meets high jump II
There can be no doubting the popularity of sports science as a subject to study at undergraduate level in Britain. Many are interested in it because of its multidisciplinary nature. Unfortunately,...