Rise in good degrees not just grade inflation
The proportion of students graduating with a first-class or upper-second degree has increased from a third to a half over the past 15 years. Are standards falling and grades being inflated or are...
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Analysis: Smarter way for a nation to learn
The Scots blueprint on lifelong learning gives people access to education at any stage in life, whatever their means. Olga Wojtas reports on a visionary plan. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and...
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Whistleblowers: Sacked lecturer makes history with challenge
A lecturer sacked by Surrey University after he complained to the vice-chancellor about harassment and mismanagement in his department is to go back to court in higher education's first known...
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Students arrested as Mugabe targets campuses
Zimbabwe's students are the target of a government attempt to clamp down on sectors of society that it sees as supporters of the political opposition, following Robert Mugabe's victory in this month'...
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William costs St Andrews £175,000
St Andrews University has suffered a £175,000 clawback in funding because of the "Wills effect" on student recruitment. The only other Scottish higher education institution to face a clawback,...
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EU puts animals on death row
European Commission proposals to screen all artificial chemicals in the environment will involve tests on more than 10 million lab rats, fish and other animals, according to a new study. Scientists...
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For the record
Philosophers protest at teaching of creationism Some 43 philosophers and scientists have sent a letter to prime minister Tony Blair to protest at the teaching of creationism at the state-funded...
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Next week
News Welsh gold: how Cardiff University turned itself round Features Should we go to war with Iraq? Middle-East experts give their views Plus: the ANC is 90 - we look at its changing relationship...
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Trouble in the trades
Why create a nation of academics when it's electricians and plumbers we need, asks Chris Woodhead. "To question the government's policies," I wrote in the chapter on universities in my book Class War...
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Why I ...believe debating science with creationists will not work
Creation "science" advocates that there is scientific evidence to support a 6,000-year-old Earth and a global flood some 4,000 years ago. It is claimed that the science of creationists is supported...
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Cuts put 100 jobs at risk
Up to 100 jobs may go at Queen Mary, University of London, under plans being drawn up to cope with cuts to research funding. Principal Adrian Smith plans "substantial staffing reductions" in the...
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A recipe for healthy brain growth: start with fish oil
Dyslexia can ruin lives. Now evidence suggests that the right diet may diminish or even prevent this and other neuronal disorders. In the winning essay in this year's THES/Oxford University Press...
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Ways to put words into their mouths
The Silent Child
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Our ongoing love affair with paper
The Myth of the Paperless Office
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Inside the race of the century
Public science was key in decoding the genome, says Ian Wilmut. The events described in The Common Thread will be of profound importance to everyone. Knowledge of the sequence of the human genome...