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Hefce rule leaves students out in cold
Universities are pushing to relax student recruitment rules that are forcing them to turn away thousands of well-qualified applicants this year that they could otherwise accommodate. Vice-chancellors...
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IQ claim will fuel gender row
Men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and other academic distinctions because they are more intelligent than women, according to a study to be published in a leading research journal. In a paper...
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'Ustinov offers a fantastic opportunity to develop a real community'
Penelope Wilson is the new principal of Durham's Ustinov College, one of the UK's largest graduate schools Supporting postgraduate education will be central to the agenda of Penelope Wilson, who is...
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On the move
* Edinburgh College of Art has appointed Miles Glendinning director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, a post combined with postgraduate course leader in the masters programme in...
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Free up training, academy urges
Universities should have the freedom to determine their own professional development programmes for staff, the Higher Education Academy said this week. The HEA is to launch the final round of...
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Anger at Brunel over recruits' family ties
Lecturers' leaders have reacted furiously to the discovery that Brunel University has appointed two close relatives of senior staff as lecturers after making 45 academics redundant. The Times Higher...
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Brainy, but has he got a really big 'h'?
It is the question every academic could soon be dying to ask colleagues: "What's your h-index?" Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, developed the index to measure...
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Next week
Postdoctoral prospects Which disciplines are most likely to deliver permanent posts? PLUS Tales of fantasy and fear: why Hans Christian Andersen still gets under our skin
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Sex bias persists in pay
The gender pay gap starts immediately after graduation, new research suggests. Figures on university leavers' destinations from the Higher Education Statistics Agency found that men were more than...
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Skills funding impact
Universities will have to account for the money they spend on training postgraduate and postdoctoral students under new arrangements. In a letter to institutions this week, Research Councils UK...
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Health policies v rights
A leading bioethicist says Unesco's Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights heralds disaster for standard medical research routines. Udo Schuklenk, head of Glasgow Caledonian University's Centre...
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Glasgow language cuts
Glasgow University has denied fresh claims that it is singling out its School of Modern Languages for job losses as part of its cost-cutting voluntary severance scheme, launched in June. A...
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Oxford's last prodigy?
Oxford University is reviewing whether it can continue to admit child prodigies to undergraduate degrees. Under the Children Act 2004, one-to-one tutorials could pose problems and, in addition,...