Ulster vice-chancellor leads mission to US
* Ulster University vice-chancellor Gerry McKenna this week led a UK delegation of higher education experts to study North Carolina's innovative tertiary education system. The mission is being backed...
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Campaign to recruit more social workers
* The government has launched the second phase of its campaign to increase the number of applicants for social work training by 5,000 in three years. The first phase, launched in October 2001, led to...
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Durham race-bias claims dismissed
* Claims of discrimination and victimisation made by an MA student against the University of Durham were dismissed in court this week. The judge at Newcastle County Court said there was no suggestion...
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OECD team focuses on UK education
* A team from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development was in the UK this week talking to staff from selected universities, community colleges, schools, research bodies, funders,...
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Mandelson: attempts to widen access 'mere tinkering' Former minister Peter Mandelson has said the Labour government’s attempts to increase the number of poorer people at university have so far...
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How to teach BNP students?
Lecturers who have to teach British National Party student activists have demanded a debate about "the implications and consequences of admitting students with openly racist views" to university,...
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Professor under fire for racist views
A professor at the University of Sussex is under pressure to resign after publishing an article supporting racism. Geoffrey Sampson, a professor of natural language processing, has already been...
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English studies still popular
* English is alive and kicking in higher education, according to a report by the English Subject Centre, part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network. Author Sadie Williams found undergraduate...
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South Bank staff march on Parliament
* Staff at South Bank University this week marched on Parliament to protest at the poor treatment meted out to new universities. They lobbied MPs about grievances including the underfunding of new...
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Don's diary: French elections
Sunday Arrive in Paris from the French Historical Studies conference in Toronto. The results of the first round presidential elections are due in two hours. Over dinner with another 20th-century...
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Dallas
Former CIA director Robert Gates has emerged as the sole nomination for president of Texas A&M University. Mr Gates, a retiring Republican senator, was director from 1991-93. "
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Conakry
Authorities in Guinea closed the Conakry university campus for a few days to prevent students turning the 21st anniversary of the death of Bob Marley into a marijuana-fuelled anti-government rally.
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Nova Scotia
Jacquelyn Thayer Scott, vice-chancellor of the University College of Cape Breton, is to stand down at the end of June.
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£800 million overtime unpaid each year
* Universities and colleges do 7.2 per cent more teaching and research than they get paid for, funding chiefs said this week. The full economic cost of teaching and research is £800 million more than...
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UCL recovery may rely on redunancies
* University College London has warned that compulsory redundancies "might be unavoidable" as the college is failing to make £11 million of savings this year. Provost Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith is "...