Dear Don... a little divine rejection
Civility costs nothing. But try telling that to the editors of academic journals whose rejection letters appear to be getting ruder, more sarcastic and increasingly scathing, writes Jessica Shepherd...
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Young blood loses out to the old guard
Younger and less experienced academics are finding it harder to make a name for themselves in a peer-review system weighted in favour of established research stars, academics have warned. Amid...
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Publish or perish: Teaching falls by wayside in pursuit of cash
The pressure on junior academics to "publish or perish" means that there is little encouragement to improve teaching, according to Hau Hing Chau, a lecturer and teaching fellow in product design at...
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Arts face cash cuts in switch to metrics
Vice-chancellors warn that the Government's new bias towards science will starve arts and humanities research of funding. Anna Fazackerley reports University heads this week accused the Treasury of...
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Grow your boat gently down the stream
Students at leafy Bath Spa University are sending a meadow on a barge to comfort grass-starved Londoners, writes Anna Fazackerley. The floating garden will be towed by a tugboat down the Kennet and...
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Sussex v-c urged to quit in wake of chemistry axe row
The vice-chancellor of Sussex University faced a rebellion from his council and calls for his resignation this week as he confirmed that he would abandon his controversial plan to axe chemistry,...
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Dispute dispatches
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports * A group of overseas students at...
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2006 degrees will be 'suspect'
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports Degrees held by 2006 graduates "will for...
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Contingency plans for exams
More universities confirmed this week that, if necessary, they were ready to award degrees to students who had not been able to sit their finals because of the exams and assessment boycott. Others...
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MPs wade into the war of words
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports Academic unions are furious over the '...
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We won't settle until docked pay is returned to members, say unions
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports Union leaders have warned that there will...
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Tories target science
The Conservative Party has set up a task force on science, technology, engineering and mathematics as a key part of its Economic Competitiveness Policy Review Group established by party leader David...
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Women out on top
The expansion of higher education has benefited women from middle-income backgrounds rather than men and women from the poorest backgrounds, David Willetts, the Shadow Education Secretary, told an...
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HND students' loss
Foundation degree students at higher education institutions outnumber those on higher national diploma courses, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. In 2004-05, the overall...