British academy
The British Academy awarded the following medals and prizes for 2006: Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies: Graham Stanton , Lady Margaret's professor of divinity, Cambridge University; Derek Allen...
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UCU 'surrender' over pay deal
University and College Union activists deliver an official rebuke to their leaders over their actions in the national dispute this year, Tony Tysome reports The many thousands of lecturers who took...
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Iraq aid appeal amid violence
An emergency fund for Iraqi academics was launched in London this week as a spate of killings followed the kidnapping of 150 scientists in the Higher Education Ministry. In the ten days after last...
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V-cs fight Mouse's corner
Vice-chancellors have launched a robust defence of so-called Mickey Mouse degrees in a paper that champions the worth of courses such as golf studies, surf science and brewing. The report, nicknamed...
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Next week
Take one... A Westminster lecturer is videoing himself marking essays as feedback enters the 21st century PLUS Research misconduct revealed: net is closing on academics who fiddle research results
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V-c to leave Sussex
Alasdair Smith, vice-chancellor of Sussex University, will step down in August 2007 after nine years in the post, it was confirmed this week. Professor Smith, who will leave a year before the end of...
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Cambridge investment
Cambridge University has appointed its first chief investment officer to manage its endowment funds. Nick Cavalla, chief investment officer of Man Global Strategies, will join the university and take...
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Making better medics
A £4.5 million Centre for Excellence in Medical Education has been launched at Liverpool University. The centre will develop a programme of teaching to help students graduate with the "professional...
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Prize for chip spin-off
A Manchester University spin-off company, Transitive Ltd, which develops computer chip technology, has won £500,000 in the inaugural Knowledge Transfer Challenge, run by the Engineering and Physical...
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Boost for business
Aston University is to launch a pilot scheme to encourage regional businesses to make use of academics to improve innovation in industry. The Index scheme will award 80 small businesses in the West...
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Union disabled guide
The University and College Union will next week launch a new guide on the rights of disabled staff working in higher education under amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act, which came into...
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Access: must do better
Performance reviews highlight struggle to hit Government's widening participation target, writes Tony Tysome. The Government wants universities to step up efforts to attract more students from...
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Entrance exams discourage less well-off
Concern has emerged that entrance exams designed to help prestigious universities choose between thousands of A-level candidates with identical grades may be deterring students from disadvantaged...
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Rough justice
Rough justice: Some 20 students from Southampton University's Star (Student Action for Refugees) organisation spent a week living on the street with no access to money in an effort to highlight the...
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Young researchers face RAE exclusion
Efforts to reward early-career staff in the research assessment exercise may be failing, reports Anthea Lipsett Young and less experienced researchers face having their careers blighted before they...