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Arts face cash cuts in switch to metrics
Vice-chancellors warn that the Government's new bias towards science will starve arts and humanities research of funding. Anna Fazackerley reports University heads this week accused the Treasury of...
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Grow your boat gently down the stream
Students at leafy Bath Spa University are sending a meadow on a barge to comfort grass-starved Londoners, writes Anna Fazackerley. The floating garden will be towed by a tugboat down the Kennet and...
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Sussex v-c urged to quit in wake of chemistry axe row
The vice-chancellor of Sussex University faced a rebellion from his council and calls for his resignation this week as he confirmed that he would abandon his controversial plan to axe chemistry,...
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Dispute dispatches
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports * A group of overseas students at...
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2006 degrees will be 'suspect'
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports Degrees held by 2006 graduates "will for...
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Contingency plans for exams
More universities confirmed this week that, if necessary, they were ready to award degrees to students who had not been able to sit their finals because of the exams and assessment boycott. Others...
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MPs wade into the war of words
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports Academic unions are furious over the '...
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We won't settle until docked pay is returned to members, say unions
Unions say that universities, by digging in their heels over pay, are tainting graduates' qualifications and undermining academic values. Phil Baty reports Union leaders have warned that there will...
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Tories target science
The Conservative Party has set up a task force on science, technology, engineering and mathematics as a key part of its Economic Competitiveness Policy Review Group established by party leader David...
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Women out on top
The expansion of higher education has benefited women from middle-income backgrounds rather than men and women from the poorest backgrounds, David Willetts, the Shadow Education Secretary, told an...
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HND students' loss
Foundation degree students at higher education institutions outnumber those on higher national diploma courses, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. In 2004-05, the overall...
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Correction
Our feature (May 12) about Oxford University's struggles with Nippon Dental University over the return of an ancient medical text should have stated that, under Japanese law, anyone who unwittingly...
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Mark of quality sparks flurry of enthusiasm
Best Student Experience Even the official Frisbees of the University of Wales, Swansea, advertise the fact that the institution won The Times Higher 's Best Student Experience 2005 award. Across...
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In his own words
In his own words: an image of linguistics guru Noam Chomsky has been created by Nicholas Wade, professor of visual psychology at Dundee University. Titled Deep Structure , it features phrases that...