It's a rap, but not as we know it...
John Fothergill is probably the UK's first rapping pro vice-chancellor. Leicester University students had to readjust their headphones when they heard Professor Fothergill launch into his rap as part...
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Next Week
The pay offer Academe gives its verdict. Read our exclusive ICM poll PLUS Christopher Hitchens on rights, radicalismand Thomas Paine
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Hello boys
All-female St Hilda's College in Oxford has voted to accept male students. The college, which has been single sex since its formation in 1893, voted for the change on Wednesday afternoon. In 2003,...
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Head count
Academics made up 46.4 per cent of a total 346,305 staff in UK higher education in 2004-05, new figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. Women accounted for 41.2 per cent of...
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Newport departure
James Lusty, the vice-chancellor of the University of Wales Newport, has announced that he is to take early retirement at the end of the year "to spend more time with his family". Professor Lusty,...
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Macmillan to UEA
The University of East Anglia has appointed Bill Macmillan, currently a pro vice-chancellor at Oxford University, as its new vice-chancellor.
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Biotech grant review
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is consulting on changes to the seven committees that review research grant proposals. Nigel Brown, director of science and technology, said...
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Blair steps into RAE row
Yet another policy rethink is on the cards. Anna Fazackerley canvasses v-cs' reactions Tony Blair has personally intervened in Whitehall wranglings over research funding, making it possible that the...
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£25m for language centres
Five centres launched this week will boost the numbers of researchers in languages and area studies. The aim of the £25 million language-based area studies initiative is to produce more academics who...
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Their generation
36 years after The Who recorded their seminal album Live at Leeds the band will take the stage at Leeds University's Refectory on June 17. The idea to kick off the 2006 return came from Andy Kershaw...
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Post-92s more gay friendly
Older universities should copy their newer counterparts when it comes to stamping out homophobia, a conference has heard. Gay and lesbian academics are more likely to feel accepted at post-92...
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Party frocks
Graduate Fashion Week celebrated its 15th anniversary at Battersea Park Arena, London, this week. Douglas Maclennan, director for international development at Northumbria University's design school,...
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Brown urges rise in spend on sector
Chancellor hints at higher top-ups to boost coffers, says Olga Wojtas The UK must spend more on higher education, Chancellor Gordon Brown said this week, hinting that a rise in top-up fees might...
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Unions gear up to sell deal to staff
Union bosses have a battle on their hands to sell this week's 13.1 per cent pay deal to members amid early indications that the agreement made with employers fell short of rank-and-file expectations...
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Bitter dispute that split colleagues
The impact on students was a key stumbling block, writes Chloe Stothart Bob Lawson-Peebles, a senior lecturer at the School of English at Exeter University, resigned from the Association of...