Career breaks hit selection for RAE
The majority of women have research records dubbed inadequate, yet no consideration is taken for time lost on maternity leave, writes Phil Baty. Women are badly underrepresented in the research...
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Wikipedia is monitored for PR disasters
Wikipedia, the hugely popular internet encyclopaedia, is emerging as the latest battleground in the competitive world of university marketing, writes Phil Baty. While anyone is free to edit and add...
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Aggro inspires bouncer to hit artistic heights
Nightclub bouncer Terry Massiah drew on his experiences at the door to inspire the artwork that landed him a first-class degree in fine art from Bedfordshire University. Mr Massiah, a father of four...
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Rooting out radicals is a job for students
Extremism is best tackled by an engaged and aware campus body and not by attempting to restrict speech, academics say. Jessica Shepherd reports. Just how should universities clamp down on extremism...
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Arrest of London Metropolitan student shocks campus
An academic at London Metropolitan University has spoken of his shock at learning that one of his students was among those arrested last week in connection with the alleged plot to blow up passenger...
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US visa limbo costs physicist Stanford post
A Brunel University physicist has been forced to give up a top research post at Stanford University because he shares his name with a suspected Islamic terrorist. Akram Khan, a reader in the School...
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Healthy jobs boost
More than 80 per cent of students who graduated in 2004-05 in medicine and dentistry, subjects allied to medicine, veterinary science and education, found employment, according to the Higher...
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£33K bill for degree
Sixthformers starting university this year expect to fork out £33,512 over the course of their degree, a rise of almost £5,000 on last year's projected figure, a survey has found. The survey by...
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'Introduce British Bac'
A levels should be phased out after 2008 and replaced by a British Baccalaureate with a menu of academic and vocational elements, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research. The think-tank...
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VSO: update gap year
Gap-year programmes for UK students are at risk of becoming outdated and a new form of colonialism, according to international development charity Voluntary Service Overseas. The charity is calling...
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Engineers' e-archive
Professional Engineering Publishing (Pep), the publishing arm of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, has created an online archive of engineering journals dating back to 1847. Pep publishes 17...
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Top-ups affect inflation
The Bank of England stated last week that the introduction of top-up fees in England was partly to blame for rising inflation. Mervyn King, the bank's governor, said there was a "50:50" chance of...
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Summer time and the living is easy...
... but not if you're an academic, says Anna Fazackerley, who finds quite a few on a busman's holiday, hunched over a PC or working hard in the lab. For James Tooley, professor of education at...
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V-cs go to ends of earth - and Derbyshire
Where do university heads escape in August after a gruelling year dealing with striking academics, litigious students and the latest government directives? Vice-chancellors are just as likely to take...
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New title brings boom in students
England's newest universities look set for a bumper recruitment year in which they will buck the downward trend in applications nationally, according to new figures. Nine of the 12 institutions that...