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Speaking in a House of Lords debate on the security services, Lord Annan, former vice-chancellor of London University and an intelligence officer in the Second World War, drew attention to the...
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Pension contributions - Volunteers overseas won't lose out
Academics who want to volunteer overseas will not miss out on their pension contributions, Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, has announced. The Government has...
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European Commission - Knowledge must cross frontiers
Europe needs a fifth freedom - free movement of knowledge - to best answer the challenges of globalisation, Janez Potocnik, the European Science and Research Commissioner, said last week. In London...
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Biosecurity - Labs lack funds to maintain safety
Universities have to "beg and scrape" for money to maintain high-security pathogen laboratories adequately, George Griffin, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, last week told...
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Copyright policy - MPs urge clarity on 'orphan' works
MPs have said there needs to be a clearer policy on "orphan" works or those for which it is impossible to trace the copyright holder, according to a committee of MPs on the work and operation of the...
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Deadly secrets
David Wilson's first-hand contact with serial killers while in the Prison Service has informed his work as an academic
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Appointments
Paul Manners has been appointed director of the new National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, which was set up to improve links and dialogue between universities and the public. Funded by...
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Assessment criteria for practical skills
Striving to make the marking process reliable, clear and scrupulously fair will help students learn from the exercise, even when they fail
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Staff give sector managers low marks
Employee survey makes 'disturbing' reading for higher education, writes Melanie Newman
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Talented non-academics overlooked for v-c posts, says registrar
Universities should apply their widening participation policies to the recruitment of vice-chancellors and consider administrative staff without academic backgrounds for the job, the registrar of the...
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£4m to aid Cambridge outreach
A £4 million gift from an educational philanthropist will boost the University of Cambridge's efforts to attract more state-school applicants.Harvey McGrath, former chair of Man Group and a graduate...
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The Week in Higher Education
- "Universities must tread carefully to avoid antagonising the University and College Union unnecessarily," said the leader column in The Independent education and careers supplement on 20 March. The...
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MPs suggest policy shift could damage universities
Committee dismisses government case for second-degree funding changes, writes Rebecca Attwood
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ELQ cuts cited as spur to Hefce funding queries
The withdrawal of funding for students taking equivalent or lower qualifications is being blamed for queries by a number of universities about the accuracy of recent funding allocations.Ten English...