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Whistleblowers: Students all get As as tutors are laid off
Two cohorts of degree students were told they would receive "A grades" for work that could not be assessed properly because their tutors had been laid off. First and second-year art students at the...
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Bristol centre poised to unlock gateway to China
Bristol University is bucking a national trend by setting up a new teaching and research centre for East Asian studies. The university believes that the interdisciplinary centre will play a major...
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Lancaster to axe art to focus on music
Lancaster University plans to axe its art department and concentrate investment in music and theatre studies instead. A closure recommendation by the university's management advisory group follows a...
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Lords inflict defeats as the Bill struggles on
The Government faced humiliating defeats in the House of Lords this week over its plans to introduce top-up fees as peers forced key concessions on the Higher Education Bill. At the Bill's report...
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Universal time could clock out by 2022
Experts are planning to break the age-old link between measuring the passage of time and the motion of the Earth and Sun. Increasing conflict between the need for precision in the modern age and the...
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Glorious Venus struts her stuff
It's early morning on June 8; 6.19 and 46 seconds to be precise. And it is so important to be precise today, writes Steve Farrar. A select audience of scientists and historians at the University of...
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Scotland 'needs £100m'
Scottish universities need more than £100 million in extra funding, according to the Association of University Teachers. In its submission to the Government's comprehensive spending review, the AUT...
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UWE to lead carnival
The University of the West of England will be the lead sponsor of this year's St Paul's Carnival, the Southwest's answer to London's Notting Hill Carnival. Alfred Morris, vice-chancellor of UWE, said...
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Forensic tools down
More than 1,000 scientists working in the Government's Forensic Science Service went on strike over pay as The Times Higher went to press. Prospect, the union representing the scientists, said that...
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Fight to halt cuts failing
A campaign against cuts in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Translation at the University of East Anglia looks set to fail. Despite pressure from staff and students - and comedian Eddie...
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Dinosaur embryo found
Scientists have found the first perfectly preserved embryo of a so-called flying dinosaur inside a fossilised egg. The embryo is a pterosaur, the collective name for flying reptiles that co-existed...
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Correction
A report ("Arrest sparks warning over foreign agents", Times Higher , January 30) stated that David Ben-Menachem had been arrested in Israel. In fact, Mr Ben-Menachem was not arrested, but he was...
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Fee cap poses threat to elite, think-tank warns
Britain's world-class universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, will "wither away into mediocrity" by 2012 if they are not privatised and deregulated, concludes a book from an Oxford University-...
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Proposed rent hike leads to clash at Oxford
Oxford colleges risk alienating working-class school-leavers with plans to increase room rents by up to 50 per cent over three years, student leaders have warned. College heads are in talks with...