Improved climate
The Economic and Social Research Council is to increase funding for work on climate change "as a matter of urgency". It has also announced a £2.9 million International Centre for Lifecourse Studies...
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Sector wins spot at Gordon's top table
Departmental reshuffle brings Cabinet representation for higher education, joined by science, innovation and skills. Rebecca Attwood reports Universities have welcomed their new voice at the Cabinet...
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Top-up fees fan makes comeback
John Denham was a Home Office minister tipped for higher things when he resigned from the Government over the war in Iraq. But during four years on the back benches he has won praise as chairman of...
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Inside track...
Our occasional column keeps you abreast of developments in the jobs market, from tip-offs and career pointers to news on who's on the move in your field Lead roles for us trio at new UK institute...
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Willetts kept on as Tories name team
David Willetts was appointed to shadow the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills this week, as the Conservative Party reshuffled its own team in response to Gordon Brown's Whitehall...
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Triesman returns
David Triesman is described, with little affection, as David "Treason" by some of his old trade union comrades. Not so long before his appointment this week as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State...
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No harmonisation fear
The Government has rejected the Commons Education and Skills Committee's concerns over the European Commission involvement in the Bologna Process to harmonise university qualifications across Europe...
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Bradford opens lab
A £2.2 million engineering research laboratory was officially opened at Bradford University this week. The Centre for Micro and Nano Moulding is an addition to the Polymer Interdisciplinary Research...
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Blair chair for Liverpool
A £5 million chair in Irish studies is to be established at Liverpool University in honour of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. The "Blair chair" has been awarded to the university by the Irish...
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Parkinson's grant
The Parkinson's Disease Society has awarded more than £157,000 to Leeds University researchers to investigate how proteins in the brain and environmental factors contribute to the development of...
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Space opera buffs meet
Fans and academics studying the cult science fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica will gather at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College on July 28 for the first academic conference on the...
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'Damaging overuse' of hype criticised
Rebecca Attwood surveys the agenda for this week's Higher Education Academy conference, and reports on award-winning teachers False or exaggerated claims to "excellence" in teaching and research are...
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Drive-through culture warning
Academics who deliver lectures via the internet risk turning institutions into "drive-through universities", teaching experts will hear this week. Glen Thomas, a senior lecturer at the Queensland...
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Good teaching stifled by audit, HEA head says
A culture of audit and bureaucracy risks driving higher education teaching into "uniformity and monotony" and damaging student learning, according to the head of the body charged with improving...
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In celebration of the art of pedagogy: The winners of the National Teaching Fellowships, 2007
Inspiring teaching is being celebrated this week with 50 National Teaching Fellowships. The Higher Education Academy has chosen lecturers and learning support staff from England and Northern Ireland...