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* Surrey University has appointed David Sharkey as its new director of finance. He previously worked for Marks and Spencer and most recently held a variety of senior group finance positions. He...
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Trust eroded by blind marking
Phil Baty reports on reactions to an NUS campaign for anonymous coursework assessment. A loss of trust and intimacy between lecturers and their students is undermining the quality of university...
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Why lecturers should get the chop
For the average British academic, martial arts such as karate, kung fu and kickboxing may seem to have little bearing on their scholarly way of life. But according to Charles Spring, programme leader...
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Prizes boost profile
The international student support team at the University of Central Lancashire has expanded its work since winning a Times Higher award. UCLan received the award for Outstanding Support for Overseas...
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Mobility top priority
Many challenges to the mobility of staff and students still exist, education ministers from the 46 countries involved in the Bologna Process - designed to harmonise Europe's higher education systems...
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Gay-bashing inquiry
The police are investigating the homophobic persecution of an academic at Oxford Brookes University. A spokesman for Thames Valley Police confirmed that an investigation was under way into incidents...
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RS elects new fellow
The president of the British Academy, Onora O'Neill, has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society. Baroness O'Neill, a professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, is one of only a...
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Google bans essay ads
Google, the internet search engine, has banned adverts for essay-writing services, a move that has delighted vice-chancellors. Drummond Bone,Jpresident of Universities UK, said: "Essay-writing sites...
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Mr John Hemming
On January 26, 2007, we published an article entitled "Great Accusations", about which Mr John Hemming MP has complained. We wish to make it clear that we did not intend to suggest that Mr Hemming...
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On track for a new battle of the sexes
Is a dash of autism and an ability to turn from the world essential for scientific success? Melanie Newman reports. A DVD of trains with faces stuck on their fronts is the intriguing new product of...
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York duo honoured
Two York University academics have received national awards for their contributions to science. Ottoline Leyser of the department of biology has received a Rosalind Franklin Award from the Royal...
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Newcastle expands
Newcastle University has unveiled plans for a £35 million development at its Barras Bridge campus. It wants to create an emerging "cultural quarter" and to provide an improved advice centre for its...
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A ticket for the jet set
Portsmouth University scientists have received £475,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to help them in their quest for a solution to fatigue fracture of components in...
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Gravity grant
The general relativity group of the Southampton University's school of mathematics has been awarded a rolling grant worth £1.7 million by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Over the next...