Students want to stay on
A record number of students graduating this year plan to go on to postgraduate study rather than face the job market, according to a survey. The UK Graduate Careers Survey, based on interviews with...
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My eye-teeth for a degree
Sean Gerrie hopes to pay off his student debts by offering shares in his body. His website offers visitors the chance to "rent" his body parts for as little as £1 a go. After one week, his site, www....
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Franchises in standards row
The British Council has warned that the nation's global academic reputation is under threat after analysis by The THES found quality-control weaknesses at almost a third of British universities'...
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Whistleblowers: Book awards fuel BA's image as old boys' club
The row over "old boys' favouritism" at the British Academy intensified this week as The THES found that all three of the academy's prestigious book prizes have so far been awarded to BA fellows and...
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Foundation plan misses target
Foundation degrees will not be the key to reaching the government's targets for higher education, according to research seen by The THES . Instead, some 250,000 traditional full-time undergraduate...
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Student emails baffle tutors
Students are increasingly using email to communicate with their lecturers in ways that baffle and infuriate academics, according to a survey of Information and Communications Technology use among...
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Findings: Good reasons to move
Students who study on year-abroad schemes to Europe gain better jobs with higher incomes and are more likely to pursue a career in continental Europe, research has found. In the study of Sussex...
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Findings: Globe-trekking menace
Scientists in the US have produced the first quantitative forecast of future rates of biological alien invasions. They hope their method will forewarn and forearm vulnerable countries. For alien...
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National Teaching Fellowship winners
* Allan Owens, senior lecturer, drama and theatre studies, Chester College of Higher Education * Clive Holtham, professor, information management, Cass Business School, City University * Sidney...
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Upside-down logic puts the facts in perspective
A good tutor dares to turn traditional teaching on its head to help students understand their subject better, according to two winners of £50,000 fellowships for teaching excellence. They are among...
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Surrey spin-offs gear up for success in the field
Two companies with links to the University of Surrey have raised funds to develop products that will help release high-value contaminated land for redevelopment. Cybersense Biosystems, set up in 2001...
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Spires aspire to Ivy League
Should Oxford cut first degrees to compete internationally? Claire Sanders reports Oxford University's undergraduates have included five kings, 25 British prime ministers - and three saints. To cut...
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More than just a hall
Lord Robin Butler is a college man who has seen the writing on the wall for the current Oxford system. He studied at University College, Oxford, in the 1960s, went on to become head of the civil...
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Overworked students suffer lower quality of learning
Students at Oxford University are so overworked that the quality of their learning may be damaged, according to a consultation document from Oxford's key educational policy and standards committee,...
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Queen's birthday honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Martyn Arbib, president of Perpetual plc, for services to charities, especially education. John Baker, QC, Downing professor of the laws of England, University of Cambridge, for...