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Cambridge still second
British universities have retained their places in the 2006 ranking of world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education. The institute's fourth annual ranking again...
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Public health threat
Research affecting public health and the environment is at risk because of cuts facing laboratories funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, unions have warned. Prospect, the...
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Students have to work
An increasing number of students are being forced to seek paid employment during term time and vacations, according to a report published by the National Union of Students and the Trades Union...
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Scotland the great
International students are happier with life and learning in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK, according to an independent report commissioned by the British Council and Scottish Executive. It found...
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Political award
Quentin Skinner, regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University, has been awarded one of the four Balzan Prizes for 2006. The prize was awarded in the category "humanities, moral sciences...
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Prize up for grabs
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Wolfson Microelectronics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh have created an annual $20,000 (Pounds 10,600) international award for a scientist...
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Correction
Harper Adams University College was omitted from our table of results in the National Student Survey (News, August 25). It achieved an overall satisfaction score of 4.2, placing it fifth in the...
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RAE countdown 2008
Cara Aitchison is professor of human geography at the University of the West of England, Bristol, specialising in gender and tourism. She is a member of sub-panel 46 of the 2008 research assessment...
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Arts metrics plan revealed
An RAEalternative for the arts and humanities focuses on a 100-point research scale, writes Anthea Lipsett A radical new system to judge research quality and allocate funding after the 2008 research...
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'I can't do it for 30 more years'
Three quarters of all academics worry about their work, The Times Higher has found. Tony Tysome reports Nafsika Athanassoulis feels disillusioned about her fledgling career in higher education...
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Just a glass will get the answers flowing
Charitable giving or self-indulgence? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the latter that the majority of university staff plumped for when asked what would motivate them to respond to an online...
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UCU to back older academics who feel 'superfluous'
A "silent majority" of academics aged 50 and older feel "undervalued and often superfluous", a survey by the University and College Union will reveal next week. Sally Hunt, UCU joint general...
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Tribunal restricts 'vexatious litigant'
Panel finds that a lecturer who won thousands of pounds alleging bias had no 'worthwhile' evidence, writes Phil Baty A lecturer who has caused "enormous inconvenience, harassment and expense" to...
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Spa studies graduates in hot demand
In the third of our series on popular courses, Jessica Shepherd unwinds on a trip to Buxton, home to the UK's first spa management degree Not again. The phones don't stop ringing at the school of...