Funding threat a spur to arts PhD completion
The submission rate for arts PhDs has doubled over the past ten years, according to the Arts and Humanities Research Board. In 2000, 70 per cent of arts postgraduates handed in their doctoral theses...
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Reasons for student dropouts investigated
Student dropout rates will be scrutinised by the Commons education select committee as part of its continuing inquiry into higher education. Reasons being considered for why students fail to complete...
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Director of Jill Dando institute appointed
Criminologist Gloria Laycock has been appointed the first director of a crime-fighting institute founded in memory of murdered TV presenter Jill Dando. The Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science,...
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Curtain may fall on Ustinov department
The future of Durham University's Russian language department, named after chancellor Sir Peter Ustinov, is under threat. Teaching staff are scheduled to be halved when its head retires and a...
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OU joins online business partnership
Online learning provider Unext has teamed up with the Open University Business School. Under the partnership, Unext will offer professional development courses to alumni of the school while the two...
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Research centre plan rejected by council
Cambridge University's plans for a Pounds 24 million neuroscience research centre were rejected this week by South Cambridgeshire District Council because the proposed site is on green belt land. The...
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Ulster-Scots studies gets under way
Ulster University and the Ulster-Scots Agency have this week opened the world's first institute of Ulster-Scots studies. John Wilson, dean of UU's faculty of social and health sciences and education...
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N. Irish science park will provide 1,300 jobs
Construction of Northern Ireland's first research science park has begun at the University of Ulster's Coleraine campus. Kick-started with £6 million from the university, the park will provide up to...
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Student majority say top-up fees a deterrent
Two-thirds of students replying to an internet survey said they would not have gone to university had they been charged top-up fees of £4,500 a year, being proposed by the Russell Group of...
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Scots to turn carnivore fish into vegetarians
Aberdeen University scientists hope to turn fish vegetarian in a bid to boost fish farming. At present, farmed fish are fed fishmeal made from wild fish, but the supply is becoming increasingly...
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Fund to promote 'brain gain' attacked as elitist
A scheme that could see the salaries of some scientists topping £100,000 will not help new researchers and is elitist, according to university unions. This week, Lord Sainsbury invited institutions...
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Static pay is forcing managers to leave
Many college managers are getting a raw pay deal compared with ordinary lecturers, with some accepting a pay freeze last year, their representative body has said. There has been no increase in the...
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Ucas records a big drop in student applications
Numbers of university applicants for the next academic year are falling, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Preliminary totals released to admissions officers...
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World view needs ethics
Academic geography is set to give ethics an integral role amid increasing concern about the relationship of human beings with the natural world. This was the prediction of Peter Haggett, emeritus...
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Analysis: We have ways of making you learn
Is lifelong learning a form of social control? Alison Utley considers the arguments Education secretary David Blunkett wants an extra 625,000 adults to enter education next year. His Skills for Life...