Postgraduates needed
Scottish institutions need an extra 4,000 postgraduates by 2010-11 in a bid to get closer to UK norms and create the next generation of academics, according to Universities Scotland. Scotland...
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Conflict looming
Dundee University is setting itself on course for "major conflict" if it does not rule out compulsory redundancies resulting from its current sustainability review. The warning comes from Dundee's...
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Correction
Additional sums from 2004-05 were incorrectly included in the 2005-06 salary and pension figures published for Oxford University's vice-chancellor in last week's vice-chancellors' pay table. The...
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£431m to boost student numbers
English universities will be able to offer 70,000 extra places over the next two years. Tony Tysome reports English universities and colleges have got the green light to open their doors to another...
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Access funding hit as 22 face cuts to grant
While most institutions were this week celebrating a healthy average 2.6 per cent after-inflation increase in their funding, a significant minority were facing up to the consequences of real-terms...
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New blood required
Leicester University is seeking to recruit an additional 12 academics - who will have specially reduced teaching loads - in the second wave of its "new blood" campaign to find research talent. The...
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Salford vacancies
Salford University is advertising ten new posts in this week's Times Higher . The positions, which include chairs, lecturerships and professorships, will be based in the faculty of business, law and...
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Students OK survey
The National Student Survey received a boost to its credibility this week when Warwick Student Union, after a two-year boycott of the exercise, confirmed that it would now take part. The union said...
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Royal launch in docks
The Queen has officially opened the University of East London's new Business School, library and enterprise development service. Located on the waterfront of the Royal Albert Dock, the school...
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Risky research revamp
Two research councils that were accused of risking the lives of researchers working in Islamic countries with their plans for a Foreign Office-supported project called "Combating Terrorism by...
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The footlights are farmore than a footnote
UK drama departments are world leaders in combining the theory and practice of acting. Chloe Stothart reports. A group of strangers gather in a street. They stand still, bow their heads and stay...
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Old characters in search of life on new stage
When the Birmingham School of Acting became part of the University of Central England in October 2006, it moved from a dilapidated building to an ultramodern new centre, and its staff automatically...
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Learn to perform like a Hollywood star
Academics are being encouraged to enliven their lectures by adopting acting methods used by film stars such as Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson. A workshop run by a classically trained actor...
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Who said we were rational beings?
If you have ever blown your pay cheque on designer shoes or the latest gadget rather than putting it towards your pension, then you know that people do not always make rational economic decisions,...
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Staff suffer bullying by students on the web
Making public malicious views about academics and universities online is akin to abuse, but it is a growing problem. Lecturer Amy Binns reports We all know students do it. But ridiculing lecturers by...