Denham booed over adult education budget cuts
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, was booed as he defended the Government's record on education at a volatile meeting with campaigners in Westminster last week.Responding to persistent...
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Flexible and purposeful
David Eastwood on the challenge of allocating funding to support excellent research and world-class teaching
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Students armed with sub-editing skills are given tools for life
If people who teach journalists will not uphold standards in the use of English, we cannot expect others to do so, says Tim Luckhurst
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Research elite shaken by RAE settlement
Good news for post-92s but cash spread more thinly. Zoë Corbyn and Rebecca Attwood report
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The week in higher education
- University lecturers are doing more unpaid overtime than they did last year, according to the University and College Union. The UCU, which was marking Work Your Proper Hours Day on February, said...
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Daytime TV: Hidden depths
Gary Day is gripped by Jeremy Paxman's analysis of Victorian paintings and the latest drama on Mrs T
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Top journals in mathematics based on citations per paper
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 October 2008
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A pretty pocket
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has professed himself "moderately shocked" by the recent announcement from Universities Secretary John Denham that while recognising the "...
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Doctor who and how
Viva PhD success - and let's fête the candidates a little, too, says Tim Birkhead
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Leader: Excellence receives its rewards
The shift in focus away from the elite changes the research landscape and fulfils the funding council's promise for the RAE
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From where I sit - Don't skirt around mental illness
In an ideal world, tertiary educators would be able to teach innovative courses, updated every year by the latest research in their field. Students would read widely, be well adjusted and eager to...
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John Dunning, 1927-2009
John Dunning, a renowned authority on international business, has died.He was born in Bedfordshire on 26 June 19, educated in Harrow and London and, after National Service in the Royal Navy,...
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Denham deluded over funding focus on elite 1
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, will have to devise a very crude alternative to the research assessment exercise if he wants to restrict future funding of "pockets of excellence" in teaching...
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Denham deluded over funding focus on elite 2
The Universities Secretary has apparently identified two models for quality-related (QR) finance - concentrating research funding on what appear to be the existing research-intensive institutions or...