Cambridge fears grinding to a halt as system fails
Cambridge University has had to bring in emergency measures following problems with a new Pounds 8 million financial accounts system. The university has conceded that emergency procedures are...
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Report renews calls for creative learning
Calls for a radical shake-up of the education system to place creativity at the centre of all teaching were renewed last week with the relaunch of a report, writes Caroline Davis. More than a year...
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Science promotion penalties must go
Lord Sainsbury, the minister for science, has admitted that proposals calling for scientists to act as communicators and ambassadors of science need more consideration if researchers are not to be...
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What the act means for academics
Most articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms are incorporated into British law from October 2 under the The Human Rights Act 1998. The act...
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All their Christmases
The Further Education Funding Council has turned to students for artistic inspiration to mark its imminent demise. It has invited them to design the FEFC's final Christmas card. A college principal...
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Theft alert after 'gang' strikes
Universities and colleges have been warned to be on their guard after thieves broke into Edinburgh University and stole expensive computer hardware. The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Derby follows merger trend as FE awaits learning and skills councils
One of further education's biggest institutions will be created next year under new proposals to merge three colleges in Derby. Funding chiefs say the move reflects a trend towards the development of...
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Diana is back in the frame at Kingston
Andre Durand marked the end of his tenure as artist-in-residence at Kingston University with the unveiling of his controversial allegorical posthumous portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, as the...
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Part-timers cut pay bill by Pounds 50m
Universities are saving about Pounds 50 million a year by illegally exploiting an army of hourly paid lecturers, trade union Natfhe says. A Natfhe survey extrapolates that more than 15,000 part-time...
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Don in Swansea sex harassment case resigns
Swansea University's head of philosophy, Laurence Goldstein, has resigned in the face of charges of sexual harassment and the intimidation of colleagues. The university has confirmed this week that...
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Probability points to fraud
Statisticians have devised a simple model for detecting cheating in multiple-choice exams. The system scans through test results to identify copying. George Wesolowsky, a management scientist at...
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Agony aunt
I always face a sea of new student faces at the start of term. Any tips on how I can remember their names and identities? * Lorraine Stefani, Reader in academic practice, University of Strathclyde It...
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Running man
(Photograph) - David Howe, a lecturer in the anthropology of sport at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education and a cerebral palsy sufferer, will run in the 5,000 metres for his native...
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Doors still closed to ethnic minorities
If qualifications and experience are anything to go by, Rajinder Mann should now be one of further education's rising stars. In a sector that has been urged by education secretary David Blunkett to...
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Victim wins protection
Whistleblowers can be protected against victimisation even if they raised the alarm before public interest disclosure laws came into force last year, a tribunal chair has ruled. Setting a precedent...