Medics riled by training reforms
Medical schools reacted with alarm this week to news that the General Medical Council could lose its regulatory role for undergraduate education, writes Claire Sanders. In what is being seen as the...
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Nursing provision heads for critical list
Raids on training budgets to meet health service deficits could have a devastating effect on tutors and students, finds Claire Sanders Nursing academics are facing redundancies and a "nightmare"...
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Australia backs status change to broaden scope for foreign ventures
Australia could see an influx of new universities after a dramatic decision by state and federal education ministers last week. Ministers have agreed to change the rules that determine whether an...
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Threat of war leads to campus violence
A university in northern Sri Lanka is struggling to cope with the gradual breakdown over the past six months in the ceasefire between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Jaffna...
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Rug pulled from under cheats
Vietnam's Minister of Education and Training has sent a letter to senior officials ordering them to stamp out an epidemic of exam cheating affecting universities. Nguyen Thien Nhan told them: "The...
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French claim jobs promises broken
France's academics have accused the Government of breaking its promises to higher education. Education Minister Gilles de Robien and his deputy Francois Goulard, who has responsibility for higher...
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US uses ads to sell academe
Marketing is no longer a dirty word in American universities, says Jon Marcus, as institutions launch major campaigns to target potential 'customers' via TV and billboards US universities are turning...
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Students flee Israeli bombs
Lebanon's universities have closed and international students and faculty are being evacuated to escape Israel's air and sea bombardments. The American University of Beirut has cancelled classes...
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Serbia split may plug Montenegro brain drain
The future of Montenegrin students at Serbian universities is in doubt after the separation of the two former Yugoslav states following the May referendum, writes Vera Rich. The Serbian Government...
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Local pay agreements are the logical next step
Outgoing Ucea head Geoffrey Copland believes that it is time to jettison the one-size-fits-all national pay model The future of higher education pay is at a watershed. Obviously, I am delighted that...
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Nancy Rothwell
A sigh of relief may have been heard in universities across the country this month as hundreds of degree ceremonies were completed. Not so long ago, it seemed that some might never go ahead. I am now...
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Poetry by numbers all adds up
Ever wondered how bosses - vice-chancellors or company directors - can measure scientific research? Peep's has found the answer in a humorous poem written in the middle of the 20th century by Ned...
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The bottom line of assessment
U-ARSE stands, of course, for University Annual Review System of Evaluation. The academic who devised it has even supplied The Times Higher with an example of how the system might work. Under the...
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Chance for blue-sky thinking?
Peep's hears that the ceiling of the Economic and Social Research Council started to cave in last week. Fortunately, no one was hurt. But let's hope it does not thwart plans to turn the ESRC's...
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Life's laundry cleansed in a public pantomime
I've a confession to make. Last Friday I took part in a recording of The Jeremy Kyle Show , perhaps the most strident example of daytime television's rapidly burgeoning portfolio of chat shows in...