Alarm at rating website
Universities seek legal counsel over student advice site that presents 'skewed' data. Claire Sanders writes Named university departments have been described as "rubbish" and "shocking", with students...
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Closure of common room leads to isolation
Academics are suffering from "chronic levels of isolation" as collegiality is eroded by rising workloads and a shortage of good-quality staff common rooms, researchers have warned. The standard of...
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'More recently I've begun to have a personal interest in growing older'
Alan Newell is one of three Europeans to be made a fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery Dundee University computer expert Alan Newell has been made a fellow of the New York-based...
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On the move...
The Royal College of Music has appointed two fellows in creative research practice: Roger Norrington , chief conductor, Camerata Salzburg and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart, and Anthony...
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Row erupts over suffragette tale
Historians attack an independent scholar's 'crude' claims that they repeat 'mythology'. Phil Baty reports A furious row has broken out over claims that historians are failing in their professional...
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Warwick casts about for new audience
YouTube, the website that first came to public notice for hosting video clips of "happy slapping" incidents, is now carrying adverts for Warwick University featuring academics talking about their...
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Union calls for Hefce review
Funding chiefs are acting as an arm of government and are jeopardising academic freedom, the University and College Union claimed this week. In its submission to the House of Commons Education and...
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RELIGION ON CAMPUS Would you and your God feel at home in a multi-faith 'contemplation space'? PLUS Pantomime dames: Kylie and Jordan have built careers on exaggerated performances of femininity, but...
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Engineering triumph
Data security specialist Maire McLoone, a Royal Academy of Engineering research fellow in the Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) Research Institute at Queen's University...
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Artful erection
Work began this week on Liverpool John Moores University's new £23.5 million Art and Design Academy. The site, due to be completed in time for the start of the 2008 academic year, will house LJMU's...
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NHS gets shot in arm
Help is at hand for the National Health Service in its perennial battle to balance its budget - in the form of a new foundation degree in accounting tailored to NHS staff. Northampton University's...
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Our future high-flyers strive for eco stripes
Students have big concerns about the world and worry that tigers will soon become extinct but, like Tony Blair, they do not want to give up air travel. Rebecca Attwood reports The results of a new...
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'We've seen previous activists sacrifice principles for a 4x4' v 'how can we deny people the joy we got from air travel?'
'We've seen previous activists sacrifice principles for a 4x4' Elizabeth Dodd, a second-year theology undergraduate at Magdalene College, Cambridge, is junior common room green officer at her college...
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A case of dip in standards
Neuroscientist found guilty of 'deception' but not of 'fabrication' in paper on sheep memory. Phil Baty reports on a case that raises questions about integrity and peer review An internationally...
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Besieged staff attack 'bullying' closure plans
A senior academic at Cambridge University has claimed staff were "bullied, demeaned and lied to" during a review of their department, writes Rebecca Attwood. Members of the faculty of Oriental...