Durham's Stockton campus expanding
Two colleges will be created at the University of Durham Stockton Campus ahead of a planned expansion of the site, which is expected to house 2,000 students within two years. George Stephenson...
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Britain needs more immigrants, study says
Swansea University's geography department has said falling birth rates will cause a demographic crisis unless more immigration is allowed. The study was based on census information and new research....
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Ropa scheme down to one research council
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is now the only research council running the Realising Our Potential Awards scheme. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...
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Residence costs rise to cover net access
Warwick University has said that rent rises of up to £5 a week to pay for internet access in student residences do not constitute a form of top-up fee. After the rises are finalised, students will...
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Cambridge plan to extend empire
Cambridge University needs 3,000 more staff, 5,000 more students and three new colleges to maintain its world-class position, according to a 25-year expansion plan revealed this week. Plans to...
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Dons fear for self-government after vote
Cambridge dons fear that university self-government is being eroded after a battle over the university's bar, restaurant and conference facilities. The removal of academics from the management of the...
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Merger plan is no solution for increasingly unpopular agricultural study
Agricultural colleges' efforts to bail themselves out of financial problems by merging with higher education institutions have resulted in falling student numbers, inspectors have said. Numbers have...
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NUS calls voter troops to arms
Students could swing key marginal seats in the forthcoming general election as part of a campaign launched this week. The National Union of Students is to target its campaigning efforts on crucial...
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NHS and medical schools need shared centres to heal rift
Medical schools and the National Health Service are drifting apart and need to re-examine how they work together, says the latest in a long line of reports on their relationship. University Clinical...
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Students hit by food disorders
A fifth of students are thought to be suffering from severe eating disorders that threaten their mental and physical wellbeing. Deanne Jade, principal of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, has...
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Is the answer a Midwestern model?
Some see the University of Wisconsin system as a template for UK higher education. Alison Utley reports that Manchester is looking at the system, which Philip Fine describes below. The vice-...
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Whistleblowers: Middlesex settles claim
Senior managers at Middlesex University knew the outcome of a staff grievance claim months before the hearings were complete, The THES has learned. Their decision to throw out a bullying claim by...
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Glittering prizes
Arthur Peacocke , a physical biochemist at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest, has been awarded the £700,000 Templeton prize for progress in religion. The University of Dundee will award...
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Don's Diary
Monday 08.30, Natural History Museum: 22 million specimens, 30 curators. Unlock scaffold bridge connecting old and new buildings, check atrium lift is operational - a glass panoramic thing protected...
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Sit still and behave
Staff at Birkbeck College, London, were warned to behave nicely at last weekend's graduation ceremony. A missive from Josie Charleton, director of external relations, recommended staff "find a...