Poor face a steep climb
Universities have a mountain to climb to meet the government's 50 per cent participation target according to two new reports exposing damning evidence of the barriers facing the poor. The National...
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For the record
Survey shows alarming level of racism Almost a third of ethnic minority academics report that they have been racially harassed at work, according to a survey of 10,000 members of the Association of...
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APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...
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Latest news
Pressure mounts for funding rethink Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs have joined the National Union of Students in calling for an overhaul of the way students are funded. They were responding to...
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Access elite: Stirling University
Academic staff: 575 Undergraduates: 5,320 Postgraduates: 1,425 Stirling University has two advantages: a glorious lochside campus and a remarkably flexible modular system. It was a pioneer of...
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Missing MBE
Another omission from our list of new year's honours has come to light. Robert McDonald received an MBE for his services to the Association of Training Providers and to training.
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Divide and demotivate
If RAE funding separates teaching from research, it will alienate many staff, warns Colin Clark. MEMO To : Higher Education Funding Council for England. From : An improving social sciences department...
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Next week
News The rise of the education development unit Features Passion and the Pankhursts: June Purvis and Martin Pugh dispute feminist history. Plus: Mark Roseman: new research on the Wannsee conference;...
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Graduate apprenticeship cash is chopped
Vocational higher education leaders are dismayed by the government's decision to axe development money for their new flagship qualification, the graduate apprenticeship, writes Tony Tysome. At a...
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Specialist area clusters urged in Welsh review
Higher education in Wales should be reorganised into five geographical clusters, with one of them leading the way in research and another focusing on teaching and widening access, the Welsh Assembly'...
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Time runs out on RAE options
Researchers are due to discover next week how much they will be funded following the research assessment exercise. Funding chiefs are considering several options that could penalise performance...
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How the 'small world' effect skews results
The research assessment exercise is biased owing to the "small world" effect, according to an analysis by Andrew Colman, an expert in game theory and cooperative reasoning at the University of...
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Jacks of all trades pave the way to participation
Widening access can be combined successfully with low dropout rates and excellence in teaching and research, according to an analysis by The THES . Some 30 UK universities do particularly well by...
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Access elite: Sheffield Hallam University
Academic staff: 3,138 Undergraduates: 19,028 Postgraduates: 5,368 Sheffield Hallam University attributes its success to giving priority to the interests of its students. A third live locally and...
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Access elite: Strathclyde University
Academic staff: 1,9 Undergraduates: 10,892 (Home: 10,2) Postgraduates: 2,098 (Home: 1,771) Pamela Brown, who is in the third year of a BA in psychology, came to Strathclyde University from a school...