Engineers struggle
Concentrating funding on the elite has roused despair and defiance. The THES reports. Engineering research in the UK is on the brink of collapse, government ministers will be told next week. The...
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Whistleblowers: Scholar to complain about Hefce inquiry
The Oxford scholar who blew the whistle on erroneous submissions to the research assessment exercise by London Metropolitan University is to make a formal complaint against the Higher Education...
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Sports science: Shaping up to take the lead in race for students
Sports science is becoming a heavyweight discipline, Esther Ingram writes in the latest of our series on the state of academic study. Sport and exercise science has never been in such good shape....
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Foreign signings plug gaps
Does the UK lack the talent to lead its universities? Claire Sanders reports. UK vice-chancellors, like football managers, are increasingly being recruited from abroad. The announcement that Alan...
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The making of a vice-chancellor
An analysis of the curriculum vitae of UK vice-chancellors shows the impact of the old grammar schools on higher education. Well over three-quarters of vice-chancellors are grammar school boys (and...
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Third-class degree dying out
The third-class degree, affectionately known as a Douglas Hurd after the former Conservative government minister, is on the verge of extinction - in particular at Cambridge University, Lord Hurd's...
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British still pro space voyage
UK space scientists remain firmly behind manned space missions despite the safety concerns raised by the investigation into the Columbia shuttle disaster. A straw poll of leading British figures in...
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Students pushed to spend a penny
Students do not want to be encouraged to spend a penny when they visit campus toilets. After a 15-year funding squeeze, Canadian universities are using washroom advertising to raise revenue, writes...
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Findings: They all look the same to me
People are biased in recognising faces of their own sex, a new study has found. Dan Wright and his colleague at Sussex University's department of psychology found that women were much better at...
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Findings: My husband made me do it
Men who drink heavily turn their newlywed wives towards alcohol, according to research. In a study that examined the influence that husbands and wives had on each other's alcohol consumption,...
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Scots lag behind on spending
Funding increases for Scottish higher education are set to lag dramatically behind spending plans south of the border, a Scottish parliamentary committee was told this week. A briefing paper for the...
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Strategy 'ignores' HE role in skills provision
The government's skills strategy is disjointed and incomplete because it ignores higher education, the University Vocational Awards Council has said. The strategy fails to recognise the contribution...
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Regulator intervention key to wider access
The government's aims for widening participation in higher education will not be met unless a wider range of students is targeted and the proposed access regulator is given stronger powers of...
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Moscow boasts model students
Not many student job agencies boast a cover girl on their books, but Moscow's Studenchesky Stroitelnyi Otryad (Student Building Group) is different from most. Daria Sobol, a 22-year-old student at...
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Jesse Jackson backs Yale strike
The Reverend Jesse Jackson and US Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean have lent their support to efforts to resolve a strike over pay and pensions by workers at Yale University that...