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Trustees of Beaver College have voted to change its name. Research showed that 30 per cent of prospective students would not consider enrolling because of its sexual connotations.
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After threats of demonstrations by students and lecturers angered by unpaid bursaries and salaries, the Togolese authorities have ordered the University of Togo to close until after the summit of...
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Staff morale low, study shows
Concerns about lecturers' workloads and their effect on quality are revealed in the unprecedented "total quality audit" at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, which was undertaken by...
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It's a fact: scientists more likely to be socially inept
The image of the scientist as a socially inept loner who lives only for his work appears to have its roots in truth. Research has established an association between autistic traits and scientific...
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Winning formula
(Photograph) - Nobel prizewinners for chemistry (clockwise, from bottom left) Sir Frederick Sanger, Lord George Porter, Sir John Cornforth, Sir John Walker, Sir Harold Kroto and Max Perutz became...
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Stargaze in Chile prompts UK pain
A wide-ranging review of the United Kingdom's ground-based observatories is under consideration. The astronomy committee of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council last week agreed to...
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QAA to tighten reins on MAs
Universities have damaged British higher education by cashing in on demand for degrees with the masters title, quality chiefs said this week. Too many masters courses have been set up with too little...
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QAA's paper for Scotland
The Quality Assurance Agency has backtracked on its bid to axe the MA title used by Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and St Andrews universities for some undergraduate degrees,...
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Greenaway report's executive summary
Looking Backwards: Higher Education in the UK * In less than a generation, the UK's higher education system has been transformed from an elite to a mass system. Participation increased dramatically...
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Top-up fees verdict? 'The only way forward'
A report commissioned by the Russell Group says top-up fees will widen access to HE and allow British universities to compete globally. Tony Tysome reports Top-up fees are the only way forward if...
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In the news
The mysterious disappearance of Sufiah Yusof, 15, Oxford University's youngest undergraduate since Ruth Lawrence, has prompted fresh calls for research into the impact of radically accelerated...
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Glittering prizes
Mary Quant, fashion designer, is to receive an honorary degree from Winchester School of Art today. Sir Stirling Moss has been awarded an honorary doctorate of technology from the University of...
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Old MA ties
The minefield that is the Oxbridge MA does not stop at BA graduates being awarded the degree simply for keeping their noses clean for a few years after graduating. Under current statutes, the...
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MP's not-so-wild youth
Social security minister Jeff Rooker has been recalling his prudent undergraduate days at Aston University for the National Union of Students' magazine. Far from indulging in the present student...
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Get real, Nelson
Optimism inspired by the most evocative of sources fuelled talks over lecturers' pay between trade union Natfhe and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association this week. Natfhe submitted its...