Bar 'set higher' for IB students
The alternative to A level is being underestimated, school heads claim. Simon Baker reports
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Willetts: upfront fee payment will help increase social mobility
David Willetts has defended proposals being considered by the coalition government to allow universities to recruit unlimited numbers of home undergraduates who are able to fund their tuition fees...
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Six pioneer shared services for savings
Unions warn that complex contracts with private firms will lead to job losses, writes John Morgan
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Online route may reduce delay and ease publication of sound science
Inquiry told of rise in referees' 'counter-productive' demands for extra alterations. Paul Jump reports
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'No feedback' for 63% of postgrad teachers
Only about a third of postgraduates who are employed by their university as teachers feel that they receive appropriate supervision and feedback.The statistic is included in a charter produced by the...
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Pressure to publish papers blamed for reluctance to share digital data
Academics have been accused of failing to make use of new technology to improve research because they are "selfish" and bogged down in the peer review system.Speaking at a British Library debate,...
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Sit-in over cuts at London Met
Students object to 'heavy-handed' security guards brought in to quell protest, writes John Morgan
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Unsound caricature
The critics are wrong, argues Rick Rylance; the AHRC is funding research into the 'Big Society', not promoting it
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Here be treasure, but sector unprepared for private raiding parties
The for-profits are coming, warns Matt Robb, and universities must prepare themselves for the rigours of competition before it's too late
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The platinum standard
Academy take note: the International Baccalaureate offers the best preparation for higher study, argue John Oakes and Anthony Seldon
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Other-worldly wise
Science fiction is edging into the mainstream. Is it because life is becoming more like the subcultural visions of the future? asks Roger Luckhurst
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Diary
Southampton Bully BoyMajor Oscar Hadley is flown to the front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled "Bully Boy" unit of the British Army. Yet when young squaddie Eddie...
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The Pick - The Damnation of Faust
The Damnation of FaustEnglish National Opera, London, until 7 JuneIn 2006-07, the site-specific theatre company Punchdrunk put on a thrilling adaptation of Goethe's Faust in a disused London...
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Hubble bubble
In a recently issued five-star, top-priority email, our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, has addressed what she describes as the "urgent issue of hubs".She points out that...