Second-class masters
'It is the practice for students who achieve a fail grade to be offered a multidisciplinary masters rather than a postgraduate diploma' Students who fail masters degree courses at Middlesex...
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Melton Mowbray governors call for inquiry
Melton Mowbray College governors have commissioned an independent investigation into Whistleblowers' revelations that the college has recruited suspected illegal immigrants as students. The decision...
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Where personal principles meet profit
As universities strive to snare paying overseas students, academics can get caught in an ethical trap. Harriet Swain reports. You have been seconded from your university to teach at a private...
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Rome
Italy's cabinet has backed the founding outside Turin of the country's branch of an Italo-French university agreed last October. The French campus is in Grenoble. Enrolments in the bilingual...
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Kuala Lumpur
University Technology Malaysia is to train 15 military officers in ballistics and explosives under an agreement with the Malaysian defence ministry.
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Mexico City
Students taking part in a five-month anti-fees strike at Mexico's National Autonomous University have demanded the rector's resignation and negotiations. The university, with 268,000 students, is the...
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Hull course under fire
Academics at the University of Hull raised concerns about an MA programme in security studies on which seven high-ranking Indonesian army officials were studying last year. Student campaigners also...
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Questions of censorship
In February, Quality Assurance Agency auditors accused the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside of complying with a ban imposed by a partner college on materials referring to Jewish books. They...
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Tim Boswell
'Pro-Europe, anti-capital punishment, he voted for a second reading of David Alton's bill against abortion in 1988 and, more recently, in favour of lowering the homosexual age of consent' If Tim...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Escape Liberal Democrat conference and miss first speech by Charles Kennedy as leader (have it recorded on video). Instead travel along the north-west main line from Manchester to Glasgow....
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Takes one to know one
The chairman of Conservative Future, Gavin Megaw, has hit out at Labour Student careerists for ruining the National Union of Students by failing to mount effective campaigns against tuition fees....
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On the move
Timothy Emlyn Jones, assistant principal (academic affairs) at Wimbledon School of Art, has been appointed deputy director of Glasgow School of Art. He succeeds James Cosgrove, who will retire later...
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Glittering prizes
Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong and now European Commissioner for external relations, will receive an honorary degree of doctor of civil law when he is installed as chancellor of the...
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Moscow
Dimitry Likhachev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and literary scholar, has died in St Petersburg, aged 92. Likhachev spent four years in Stalin's labour camps after being arrested in...
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The indomitable inner spirit
The essential meaning of a university still lives through entrepreneurialism, writes Sheldon Rothblatt. We need to discover a new law of gravity and inertia. Let me explain. Set ways and convention...