Marking advice fails to make the grade
QAA confirms not only wide variations in guidance on classification but also that universities have poor control over examiners, says Melanie Newman Academic examiners have worried about it for years...
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New venture reaches out to Eastern Europe
It is more than 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet empire, but the need to understand developments in Central and Eastern Europe remains. The Centre for East European Language Based Area...
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Play on to improve cultural relations
A game designed by academics at Portsmouth University aims to help overseas students settle into UK life and cope with cultural shocks such as seeing people kissing in public, smoking and drinking...
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Gong for China scholar
Michael Dutton thought it must be a hoax when he heard that he had won one of the most coveted prizes in China studies. The professor of politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, is one of two...
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Historians wins salute
An historian at Queen's University Belfast has been recognised for his contribution to British military history. Keith Jeffery has been awarded the 2006 Templer Medal and Book Prize by the Society...
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Innovative Glamorgan
A Glamorgan University's Management School project has been awarded Pounds 266,000 to study how to promote innovation in the UK economy. Mary Rose of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise...
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A credit to Ashcroft
The words "accountancy" and "personality" are not always natural bedfellows, according to popular stereotype. But Dave Sexton, head of accounting at Anglia Ruskin University's Ashcroft International...
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Three times lucky
Liverpool John Moores University has won the Department of Trade and Industry's Business Leader of Tomorrow competition three years in a row. The latest winner, Gareth Black, is a postgraduate...
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Correction
Following our feature on the good-practice guidelines for fieldwork overseas (April 20, "Passport to a safer field trip"), British Standards has asked us to point out that its new helpline number is...
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Correction
* Sheffield University has not handed over English-language tuition to Kaplan ("Private firms tighten grip", April 21). In setting up Sheffield International College with Kaplan in 2006, the...
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Competition swells ranks of professors
As more hard-working high-flyers are rewarded with titles, there are fears that the boost in numbers may devalue the honour. Tony Tysome reports A rapid rise in the number of professors in UK higher...
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Blackshirts uncovered
A leading synagogue in Salford was once the regional headquarters of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Manchester University historian Yaakov Wise uncovered the synagogue's past while...
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Hoot out the rivals
Men might puff out their chests when attempting to stand up to a potential rival, but male owls defend their territory by lowering the pitch of their hoots to try to make themselves sound bigger than...
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Aggressive winners
Men are more likely to engage in alcohol-fuelled violence after rugby matches if their team wins. This unexpected conclusion was reached by Cardiff's Violence Research Group after surveying rugby...
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Survival instinct
Scientists have uncovered evidence that Irish stoats have real staying power. Researchers at Queen's University Belfast found that stoats survived in Ireland at the coldest peak of the last Ice Age,...