Take Cardinal Newman approach, lecturers told
Academics must work together more closely in the design of degree programmes to ensure that teaching methods help students develop the personal attributes employers are looking for, the head of a...
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Wales targets China market
Welsh universities are guaranteeing degree places for promising Chinese students in a bid to secure a foothold in the world's most rapidly expanding higher education market. They have joined forces...
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Young lured by sharing culture
Fears that Scottish research might miss out after the English White Paper have been allayed, due to the Scots' ability to work together. Olga Wojtas reports. Young academics are flocking to Scotland...
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Scots team up to fend off global competition
Fears that Scottish research might miss out after the English White Paper have been allayed, due to the Scots' ability to work together. Olga Wojtas reports. Scotland's academics and universities are...
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Partners master rough seas to win £20 million
Fears that Scottish research might miss out after the English White Paper have been allayed, due to the Scots' ability to work together. Olga Wojtas reports. Glasgow and Strathclyde universities...
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When a bit of a blether brings breakthroughs
Fears that Scottish research might miss out after the English White Paper have been allayed, due to the Scots' ability to work together. Olga Wojtas reports .Scots may be temperamentally suited to...
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Bush targets campus fan base as JFK gains votes
University Republicans have chosen not to join traditional non-partisan student voter recruiting drives leading up to the American presidential election because of Democrat John Kerry's lead over...
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Incentive pay plan
The state of Hamburg is planning to introduce performance-related pay for its university professors as part of reforms that could also include student tuition fees. The new system will run alongside...
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College closure row
Irish Education Minister Noel Dempsey is in hot water over a decision to close a training college for home economics teachers in Dublin and transfer its course to Sligo, on the west coast. Documents...
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Rector's job to fill
Plans to turn Luxembourg University into a European centre of research excellence have taken a back seat as the institution seeks to find a successor to its French-Canadian rector, who died of a...
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Murder of lecturers threatens Iraqi academia
A university lecturer in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been shot and killed by gunmen who ambushed her car as she was driving to work. Police said there appeared to be no motive for the attack...
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Study: BAs and babies don't mix
Better educated Australian women have fewer children than those with no post-school qualifications, researchers have found. Going to university also reduces a woman's likelihood of marriage, they say...
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Brussels
The European Commission has announced a grant of €93 million (£63 million) towards an upgrade of the European Research and Education Internet, a communications network for research and education. It...
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Naples
Italy's Confederation of Students has claimed that university spending on competitive student recruitment advertising has increased by 45 per cent over the past year and said the money should be...
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Paris
Over the next year, between 15,000 and 30,000 French students are expected to take up an offer to buy a personal computer over three years for the cost of a daily cup of coffee, equivalent to 10 to...