Loan rate protests
The president of the National Union of Students is calling for changes to the rate of interest on student loans. Gemma Tumelty has written to Universities Secretary John Denham to say she is...
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Unistats site is a hit
A new website providing information to university applicants about courses is receiving 4,800 visits and 82,000 page impressions a day. Unistats, launched last month, replaces the Teaching Quality...
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Human rights prize
The Council for the Assistance to Refugee Academics is to receive the University of Graz's Human Rights Prize 2007. Cara, founded in 1933 to support scientists persecuted by the Nazis, today provides...
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Concert hall approval
London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama has been given the go- ahead for a £70 million development. The building, which has been granted planning permission by the City of London Corporation,...
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Library to bring kudos
Aberdeen City Council has approved plans for a new £57 million library at Aberdeen University. The library, the university's largest ever capital development, is part of a £230 million investment...
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Power to 'mini' v-cs
Four "mini" vice-chancellors have been appointed to lead new academic colleges at Birmingham University. In a major reorganisation, the 19 schools are being replaced with five unified colleges. The...
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Unequal gains
People from high-income groups are still more than four times as likely to get a degree as those from low-income groups, new research shows. A study by the Sutton Trust reveals that social mobility...
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Gilbert joins skills body
Manchester University's vice-chancellor will represent higher education on the new UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Alan Gilbert joins 19 business and trade union leaders on the commission,...
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Media academy launch
A network of designated "media academies" was launched last week to encourage colleges and universities to work with industry. The network of 17 academies was devised by Skillset - the UK Sector...
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Nottingham honoured
Nottingham University has won an award at the 2007 Cathay Pacific Business Awards, which honour UK business dynamism and achievement in China. Nottingham was selected from a range of sectors for its...
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Top women sought
The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC) is seeking nominations of outstanding women in the field whose success will inspire others. The UKRC launched its Women...
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Peep's diary
Oh come, all ye cheesed-off What better to put members of the Scottish Parliament in festive mood than having carol singers gather outside their £414 million home? But their seasonal cheer would have...
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There's no added value in sales talk
'Student-centred' policies that see academic study as a mere commercial contract cheat both pupil and scholar, says Frank Furedi. Higher education managers and policymakers habitually use a student-...
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Be aware of the pitfalls and metrics could work
Bahram Bekhradnia cautiously welcomes Hefce's plans to replace the RAE with citation analysis for the sciences. The Higher Education Funding Council for England's latest proposals to replace the...
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Iain Macleod? Who he? Give us Denis Healey
Philip Cowley is astounded and embarrassed by what the results of a survey of politics academics reveal. "That's ludicrous," spluttered the man sat next to me as the results were announced. "...