No-show fears for comet date
The European Space Agency's bid to land a probe on a comet has been plagued by management delays that threaten to derail the whole project. Officials have introduced a package of radical measures in...
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Derby refuses to meet pay deal yet v-c's wage soars
Lecturers' union Nathfe has called on academics across the United Kingdom to "isolate" the University of Derby with a national boycott until it increases pay in line with an agreed deal. The union...
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Hull team reinvestigated
A catalogue of mismanagement by a husband-and-wife team at Hull University, involving the irregular inflation of overseas students' degree results and unaccountable decision-making, has attracted the...
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Rethink on copyright
One of Britain's biggest publishing bodies has produced a draft "licence to publish" that promises to result in many of its members handing over copyright on journal articles to their authors. The...
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In league: Sunderland University and Sunderland Association Football Club
(Photograph) - In league: Sunderland University and Sunderland Association Football Club have signed an official partnership deal to promote learning both at home and away. Peter Fidler, left,...
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Rebate follows admission
Nineteen students have won a rebate of half their course fees after Bournemouth University admitted teaching and equipment problems. Students on the digital special effects masters degree complained...
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Coshep is 'no CVCP poodle'
David Caldwell, the new director of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, has denied that the committee is a "creature of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals". He has...
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Acrobat upgrade
Adobe Systems has updated its Acrobat Reader application to allow users to unlock e-books delivered in Portable Document Format (PDF) and encrypted by PDF Merchant software. Details and download: www...
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Quality partnership
The British Association for Open Learning and the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council have formed a partnership to advise learndirect, the delivery arm of the University for Industry, on...
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The 'shambles' over Daresbury
Labour MP Ian Gibson attacks his government's handling of the siting of the new synchrotron source. Kam Patel reports Former academic and Labour MP Ian Gibson has launched a scathing attack on the...
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Union rejects grievance plan
Students have dismissed Cambridge University's belated plans to establish a complaints procedure as "fundamentally unfair" and a "terrible lost opportunity". A university working group has outlined...
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Graduate jobs cut
Employers cut graduate recruitment by a third last year, while graduate salaries rose by four times the rate of inflation. A third fewer people were recruited onto graduate schemes in 1999, according...
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Essex bid to grow beside the seaside
A multi-million pound business plan to support 1,500 new higher education students in Southend went before funding chiefs this week. The University of Essex and South East Essex College have joined...
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No future for non-learners
In 2020 there will be more graduates globally than the world population 100 years ago, says the author of a report on the future published this week. The report, Engines of Change, from the Chatham...
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Win a wildlife degree course
"Think you've got a natural future? Win a university place!" That is the offer from the University of East London in collaboration with BBC Wildlife magazine. Potential students must answer 20...