From today's UK papers
More departments make excellent research grade Record numbers of British academics are conducting world-class research, according to a five-yearly assessment to be published this week. Gradings of 65...
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Protest over scrapping ILAs
A barrage of complaints over ministers' decision to ditch individual learning accounts will be brought to the government's door next week with a lobby of MPs and a cross-party forum at the House of...
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Action to crush Kurd language campaign
Turkey's Higher Education Authority (Yok) has told pro-Kurdish students that they face expulsion if they press for Kurdish-language rights in universities. The use of the language in universities...
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Courtauld becomes London college The Courtauld Institute of Art is to become a college of the University of London. At present it is an integral part of the central university with no separate legal...
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From today's UK papers
Higher education spin-offs push Britain up entrepreneurial league Spin-off companies created from higher education institutions have risen sharply in number, challenging the view that British...
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From Marx to mass market
Sociology was young when Margo Russell came to it. Over her career, it went from a tool for social change to a much-derided Mickey Mouse subject - but its value remains. I came to sociology before it...
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Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
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APPOINTMENTS University of Surrey Ross Lawrenson , head of the postgraduate medical school, has been appointed part-time primary care network director for Kent, Surrey and Sussex for three years from...
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£2,000 fees on Blair's agenda
Student tuition fees should be doubled to £2,150 a year and full differential fees introduced, according to a report by a Blairite think-tank. A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research to...
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For the record
Hefce still unsure how to handle RAE results Funding chiefs are still pondering when and how to implement the results of the research assessment exercise, which will be published next week. Members...
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Student number cap set to be axed
The lid is likely to be lifted on the maximum number of students universities and colleges can recruit. Education secretary Estelle Morris has called on funding chiefs to set interim targets for the...
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Spinoffs put UK in the lead
British universities compare favourably with their North American counterparts in their links with business, a survey has shown. UK universities spun off 199 companies in 1999-2000 - one company for...
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SFEFC power may rise after damning Moray report
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has circulated a damning report on Moray College. Allegations of misconduct against Moray's then principal, Robert Chalmers, were sent to the National...
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DoH memorandum promises no overlap in training for health staff
Bob Fryer has been appointed chief executive designate of the National Health Service University. News of his appointment came as Universities UK and the Department of Health announced that they had...
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'We must fight inequities'
Unequal access to universities between rich and poor is just one of many institutionalised inequities, the annual conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education will hear next week....