Colleges predict student shortfall
The government's flagship foundation degree is struggling in the face of recruitment shortfalls and validation delays, according to a report leaked to The THES . And under-recruitment may be...
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Tuition fees focus minds on finishing theses
Austrian students are trying to avoid paying newly introduced university tuition fees by finishing their studies and registering for exams before the end-of-November deadline. While some are busy...
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Randall's exit imperils light touch regime
John Randall's resignation has sparked a backlash from students, employers and politicians against universities' plans for a light-touch quality assurance regime. While lecturers' leaders rejoiced at...
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NEWS Financial performance: how strategic is your university planning? FEATURES Why are students from Muslim countries flocking to the United Kingdom to learn about Islam? BOOKS Jean Renoir: was he...
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For the record
Chairs seat IT and genomics at same table The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced four new chairs in bioinformatics as part of a £3.4 million drive to boost the interface...
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Lay off indebted students, says NUS
Universities that pester students for unpaid tuition fees are subjecting them to undue pressure, according to the president of the National Union of Students. Many institutions send regular letters...
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Mackney: I'd quit for merger
Paul Mackney is offering to step down as general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe to smooth the way for a merger with the Association of University Teachers. His announcement came this week as a...
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Staff fear jobs may be shelved at King's
Staff and students at King's College London fear that the institution's £30 million new library will mean possible redundancies and has already led to slashed book budgets, writes Cherry Canovan. The...
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Quality kitsch
One of Scotland's leading contemporary artists has been appointed to a new chair at Dundee University in the faculty where he was a student 20 years ago. Calum Colvin will professor of fine art...
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Ucas looks to record intake
Admissions tutors have got off to a flying start in filling the extra places for the coming academic year. The number of students accepted on full-time courses is up 7 per cent on this time last year...
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Academics set to sell more expertise
Academics' commercial consultancy work is set to join teaching and research as a core university activity, vice-chancellors predicted this week. The Universities UK good practice guide Optimising...
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Campus funded by sale of sites
The University of Hertfordshire is selling two of its sites to pay for a £105 million campus. The move on to a 50-acre site near the university's Hatfield campus means that by September 2003,...
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Green studies 'out of touch'
Environment students are being exploited by universities as "bums on seats", according to a leading campaigner and academic. Shirley Ali Khan, director of the charity Sustainability First and a...
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Divine art
Nick Elphick with his sculpture Man and Nature at the Cathedral Steel exhibition at Sheffield Cathedral. Works by students at Sheffield Hallam and Loughborough universities were commissioned by...
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Law school to merge with City
City University and the Inns of Court School of Law are to merge to form an institute that will offer courses for students and legal practitioners. The school, whose alumni include Tony Blair,...