Overseas students better at English
A senior academic has produced statistical proof of what many lecturers have long suspected: British students are more likely to make spelling and grammatical errors than their overseas peers....
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Parents call for class to start later
Subsidised creches should be available at all higher education institutions and lecture timetables juggled to help students with childcare responsibilities, a study by a Derby University academic and...
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Tag-team policy wrestling with Bill, Boris and Ed
The "big three" higher education spokesmen did battle for the first time in Parliament this week debating the cap on top-up fees. But they looked more frightened of the braying students than of each...
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Equality chief named
Nicola Dandridge has been named the new chief executive of the Equality Challenge Unit, which aims to raise awareness of equal opportunities issues in academia. She is currently the head of equality...
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Welsh gain £33m
Welsh higher education institutions will get an extra £22.5 million this financial year to compensate them for not being allowed to introduce top-up fees until 2007. The total additional money...
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St Hilda's votes for men
Students at St Hilda's College, Oxford University's last all-female college, have voted to allow men in by 55 per cent. The governing body, which must approve any proposed policy change, has set no...
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Cranfield's Gulf stream
Cranfield University has announced the creation of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University - a joint project with Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a government agency. The university is expected to enrol 8,...
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Fancy a debate?
Lecturers and universities can list forthcoming public lectures and other events on a new website, Open-lecture.net. The site promotes free public educational events and lists lectures, seminars,...
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Janet's upkeep assured
Ukerna (United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association) has signed a deal with InTechnology to provide data backup, archiving, hosting and web file services to universities linked to...
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Cash in on creativity
Four Scottish higher education institutions have united to help film-makers, artists, product designers and other creative people find commercial success. St Andrews University, Duncan of Jordanstone...
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Prize load for an ode
A library is offering prizes of £100 and £50 for poems inspired by the phrase "remains all too human". Cambridge University's Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology is holding the competition...
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Nurse turns on US as research is 'besieged'
Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse, who left Britain for New York two years ago, has launched a withering attack on the state of biomedical research in the US. Sir Paul, one of Britain's most popular and...
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Beam me up, on the double!
It's teleportation - but not as Captain Kirk knew it. York University computer experts have demonstrated how Star Trek fiction is already becoming scientific fact. In a classic episode of the TV...
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Cambridge leads rival on state school intake
Cambridge University is taking a far higher percentage of its students from the state sector than Oxford University - and the gap appears to be widening. Figures released by Cambridge this week show...
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Scotland's women step out of the shade
From queens to fishwives, suffragettes to prostitutes: the first Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is helping to address concerns about gender imbalance in historical record. The dictionary,...