Action urged to tackle stubborn dropout rates
Universities must take action to reduce student dropout rates, which have not changed for five years despite the investment of £800 million to tackle the problem.A report by the Public Accounts...
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Thames Valley to be a model Leitch institution, vows v-c
Thames Valley, Sussex and Salford have all confirmed restructuring plans. ߣߣÊÓƵ reports on the changes.Thames Valley University has announced ambitious plans to become the UK's...
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Salford's new chief performs radical surgery on committees
An overly complex committee structure is to be cut back as Salford University launches a period of restructuring.It will cut its 90 committees to eight, and a new charter of statutes will more...
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Restructuring round-up
A pioneering educational research body at the University of Glasgow is facing the threat of closure.The Scottish Council for Research in Education Centre (SCRE) was founded in 1928 but has recently...
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Sussex to review degrees to match student demand
The University of Sussex is to re-think its portfolio of degree courses after the vice-chancellor ruled that too many programmes were "determined by staff preference" rather than what students need....
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Bournemouth University
Bournemouth UniversityEntrepreneur and inventor Philip Robinson has joined the centre for research and knowledge transfer to pass on his knowledge and to provide support for student inventions. He...
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Canterbury Christ Church University
John Todd was a member of the team that pioneered the ion trap mass spectrometer, and is participating in the Rosetta space mission to analyse a comet, which is scheduled to arrive at its target in...
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University of Chester
University of Chester Howard Williams has been appointed as senior lecturer in archaeology. Dr Williams joins from the University of Exeter.Timothy Grady has been appointed lecturer in modern history...
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There’s no place like home
One way to avoid spiralling debt is to study locally, as many young people who are the target of widening access are doing. But if they are to complete their studies universities must engage with...
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Edinburgh, Hull, Swansea, Worcester
University of EdinburghNigel Brown has been announced as the new vice-principal and head of the college of science and engineering. Professor Brown will take up the new post in September, leaving the...
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University-of-Manchester
University of Manchester  Pervez Ghauri has been elected vice-president for the US-based Academy of International Business (AIB-Worldwide) for a period of two years, becoming only the third British...
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Top 10 countries in Environment/Ecology research based on total citations
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
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Our 'invisible' vice-chancellor
Leading members of the university reacted with surprise to last week's news that our vice-chancellor currently occupies bottom position in a newly compiled table of the public profile of university...
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The magnificent Sven
Emulating a local hero was hard for Kevin Fong - but fees didn't make it tougher
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Leader: Waging a one-sided culture war
Despite their anti-managerial sabre-rattling, most academics know modernisation is inevitable