Dispute dispatches
Keele University has compromised its academic standards with a "scandalous" decision to allow students to graduate without completing their final year, staff have claimed. The Times Higher reported...
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Ucea shift fails to sway unions
AUT and Natfhe unmoved by lure of improved offer, reports Phil Baty. A commitment by employers to improve on their offer to staff of a 6 per cent pay rise over two years was not enough to entice the...
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Sheffield concedes threat to exams
About a third of this summer's final-year exams may have to be cancelled at Sheffield University, it emerged this week, as the university became the first to concede that the industrial action over...
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Outsource to save cash, says industry
Tony Tysome examines a plan for universities to adopt radical measures to retain international business interest. British universities must consider radical measures such as setting up call centres...
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Fees a 'deterrent'
More than a third of final-year undergraduates would not have applied to university if they had had to pay £3,000, a poll claims. The UK Graduate Careers Survey found 38 per cent of 16,452 students...
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Purchasing priorities
The British Library this week launched a consultation on its proposed content strategy, on purchasing priorities for the coming years. Proposals include giving more priority to China, India, Africa...
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Catalyst for change
Oxford scientists floated a spin-off company valued at £65 million on the junior stock market this week. Oxford Catalysts, which develops clean power from fossil fuels and renewable sources,...
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Benefits relief
Students from poor backgrounds will be entitled to social security benefits whether or not they get a grant or bursary, the Government has announced. This will be welcomed by vice-chancellors such as...
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Kelly makes the grades
Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, vowed to boost the attainment of some of England's most deprived youngsters this week, saying it would improve progression from school to university. In a speech...
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UK needs links with US as well as Asia
British researchers are so eager to forge relationships with China and India that they are neglecting more profitable opportunities in the US, a report warned this week, writes Anna Fazackerley. Sir...
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Hotshots tipped to head new institute
Anna Fazackerley examines likely candidates for chief executive of a billion-pound medical research fund. Treasury plans to create a British version of the National Institutes of Health in the US...
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Business pans idea of Europe institute
UK business joined the fight against a European Institute of Technology this week, adding to the chorus of criticism from vice-chancellors and politicians. John Cridland, deputy director general of...
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Leeds Met fees net high interest
Applications to the university with the lowest fees in the UK have grown by more than 12 per cent, against a national decline of 3.2 per cent. Leeds Metropolitan University is processing ,125...
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Wandering window
Wandering window: after a 96-year journey that took it halfway round the world, the Fabian Window, designed by George Bernard Shaw in 1910 to commemorate the Fabian Society, has finally found a home...
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Major grant shake-up on cards under new metrics
Cranfield University would stand to earn millions of pounds more a year if block research grants were to be distributed on the basis of external research grants won by institutions. But Manchester...