'Time to pay up,' says UUK
Vice-chancellors' leaders clashed with the government this week over the level of funding needed to maintain standards and meet ministers' expansion targets. Roderick Floud, president of Universities...
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Hostility 'fuels Muslim radicalism'
Discrimination against Muslims and "Islamophobia" in western society may have encouraged support for the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers at Leicester University have concluded. A study...
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Plymouth has ambitious plans
Plymouth University will be able to compete with the UK's top research universities within 15 years, according to its new vice-chancellor Roland Levinsky, but it will have to find new sources of...
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Public will join science forum
Foresight, the government's flagship scheme for picking out key developments in science, is to be restructured and opened up to public participation, science minister Lord Sainsbury said this week at...
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Universities want participation message to reach a broader age range
Universities and colleges want to target a wider age range in their efforts to achieve government plans to expand higher education, writes Tony Tysome. They have told funding council leaders that...
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Delay in checks leaves colleges short-staffed
Thousands of lecturers have been unable to take up posts at further education colleges because of the massive backlog in staff checks by the Criminal Records Bureau. According to the Association of...
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Graduate prospects improve
The slump in the graduate job market could be reversed within three years, according to a survey of employers, writes Alison Utley. Almost half of the 900 firms in the annual CBI/Mercer survey of...
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Lonely students quit as hard-up hang on
Loneliness rather than debt is the most likely cause of students dropping out of university soon after joining, according to new research. Researchers at Staffordshire University found that students...
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Analysis: First proof that fees don't work
Public funding cuts have cancelled out tuition fees on universities' bottom lines. Claire Sanders reports on UUK's latest findings. Tuition fees have not improved university finances, according to...
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Whistleblowers: Privy Council asked to rule over student
The Privy Council has been asked to rule on a mature student's claims that Swansea Institute failed to deliver his degree course adequately, and victimised him when he complained about the quality...
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EU fails to protect UK casuals
Lecturers' leaders attacked the government's "grudging and minimalist" approach to European laws for fixed-term and casual workers this week, leading calls by the Trades Union Congress for greater...
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Findings: Malaria myth dismissed
Claims that a unique killer strain of malaria once haunted England's marshlands have been challenged by a new study. For some years, experts believed that the mosquito-borne disease was responsible...
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Findings: Walking with the ancestors
It seems that humankind's ancestors took coming down from the trees in their stride. Computer modelling has suggested that the earliest known hominid, Australopithecus afarensis , was as efficient...
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'Unfair' system doesn't reward teaching
Academics in new and old universities inhabit "different worlds" and should be assessed and funded accordingly, says a report out this week from recruitment specialists, Barkers. The current funding...
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Unions urge Blair to address debt issues
Unions this week called on the government to abolish tuition fees, restore student grants and fully fund a higher education expansion policy that will otherwise damage the student experience. Sally...