Inspiring experiences spark learning quest
What inspires people to become lifelong learners? The answer, according to Scotland's parliamentarians, ranges from Shakespeare and going to sea to business educator Eli Goldratt and a visit to the...
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Racism row reignited by v-c's remark
Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, was at the centre of a row this week after he publicly accused two staff members of making "unwarranted demands for money" by taking his...
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'Pompous' academics dampen fervour for spin-offs
A climate of suspicion is hindering links between university business schools and technology transfer offices, research suggests. The report concludes that universities fail to capitalise on the...
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Boost funding, says Barroso
The future of Europe's universities is a priority for the European Commission, according to its President, Jose Manuel Barroso. Mr Barroso told the European University Association convention in...
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Bologna on course but not plain sailing
Professional associations, students and international organisations sounded a note of caution about the general optimism over the pace and direction of the Bologna Process, write David Jobbins and...
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'EU will miss GDP spending target'
The headline target of spending 3 per cent of gross domestic product on research by 2010 is "an ambitious goal" for the European Union economy, and officials agree privately that the target will not...
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Falling Chinese student numbers threaten income
Universities in Britain, the US, Australia and New Zealand that increasingly rely on tuition fees paid by students from China face a dramatic fall in their incomes. Officials in Beijing have informed...
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Human cost of tsunami counted
Post-tsunami reconstruction is proceeding steadily at Sri Lanka's universities but the psychological and financial impact is still a concern, according to Ranjith Mendis, chairman of the University...
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Reversal of fortune for 'adrift' urban campus
Five years ago, America's largest urban university was under attack. External investigators at the City University of New York were shocked by the vast number of programmes for students who lacked...
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Greek OU staff set to strike over new assessment
Greece's Open University faces a strike threat over a new method for assessing staff. A management committee decision to alter the method of assessment of academic and co-opted scientific teaching...
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Growth in Irish intake
More than half of Ireland's 17 to 19-year-olds are enrolling in higher education. The admission rate rose from 44 per cent to 54 per cent during 2003 and is now 2.7 times what it was 25 years ago,...
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There's blood and tears in those exam scripts...
... so never spill more than two food groups on them when marking, says Kevin Fong One day somebody will invent the perfect exam. It will be a big doughnut-shaped thing that fits snugly around...
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Smooth out pressing problems
If you've got too much work to do, don't be distracted by your ironing, but do consider organising your work in the same way - into different piles, advises Harriet Swain You've got two journal...
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Encountering and countering the counterfeiters
Prevention is the key to nipping plagiarism in the bud, as Michael North finds out Student cheats are often easy to spot, says Diane Seymour, a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University's Business...
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Teacher audit
* Name: Beverley Milton-Edwards * Age: 39 * Job: Reader, School of Politics and International Studies, Queen's University, Belfast. * Salary: Reader/senior lecturer scale * Qualifications: BA (Hons)...