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The UK's research funding regime skews the academic jobs market against British mathematics postgraduates in favour of more experienced researchers from overseas, according to leading mathematicians...
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Funding councils unveil new submissions criteria
The higher education funding councils published detailed guidance this week on what information institutions will need to gather for their submissions to the 2008 research assessment exercise....
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Put lecturers first, academy told
The Higher Education Academy, set up to improve the teaching skills of lecturers, risks ignoring the professional needs of academics as it concentrates on improving the learning experience for...
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Child's play is winning way
Watching the way his stepdaughter learnt as a child helped lecturer Paul Elmer develop the teaching style that this week won him a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. Mr Elmer, a senior...
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Higher education academy's national teaching fellows 2005
Experienced staff Patrick Bailey , professor of organic chemistry, Manchester University Philip Barker , professor of applied computing, Teesside University Colin Beard , senior lecturer, Sheffield...
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London Met strike talks
Managers at London Metropolitan University and officials of lecturers' union Natfhe have agreed to hold talks over industrial action at the institution. Natfhe has agreed to "an indefinite suspension...
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Thumbs up for Swansea
Swansea University announced this week that its decision to restructure five departments had been vindicated by its visitor, after an investigation lasting more than a year. A report from Philip...
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Schwartz heads to Oz
Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, is to take up the top post at Macquarie University in Sydney. Professor Schwartz, the author of a government-commissioned report on fair...
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New blood for Hefce
The Higher Education Funding Council for England appointed three new board members this week - David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Tim Wilson, vice-chancellor of...
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It's back to their chairs
Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, is likely to resume his seat as chairman of the influential Education and Skills Select Committee. It is unclear whether Ian Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich...
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Scots price up tuition
One of the first tasks faced by Scotland's new Lifelong Learning Minister and Deputy First Minister will be to set the new level of tuition fees in response to top-up fees in England. Nichol Stephen...
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Correction
The Rootstein Hopkins chair of drawing, held by Stephen Farthing (Times Higher, June 10), is an appointment made by the University of the Arts London across the whole institution and is not just a...
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'Desperation' spurs online loan revolt
A website urging graduates to refuse to repay their student loans in protest at the Government's student funding policy has been branded irresponsible by the Higher Education Minister. The anonymous...
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Market prompts bursary reviews
Two universities have sought official permission to improve the bursaries they will offer undergraduates in 2006 amid signs of market forces at work in higher education. Three months after their...
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Hefce plays down closures
There is no need for a "great moral panic" if university courses close in future, funding chiefs declared this week as they ruled out creating a "central command-and-control" system to protect...