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Swedish student unions are protesting against universities and colleges selling students' personal information to recruitment agencies, unions, book clubs and marketing companies. Under Swedish law,...
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Japanese courts asked to step in to prevent closure
A small private university well away from Japan's centres of population has become the latest victim of the cut-throat competition for undergraduate students. Hagi International University,...
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Chinese flock to join party
More students than ever are members of the Communist Party of China, figures released on the 84th anniversary of the party's foundation show. Official sources announced that last year 2.42 million...
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We can't peer into souls but we can open minds
Could university authorities have stopped a former student carrying out the London bombings? Simon Lee reflects In the middle of our graduation festival last week, the mass media wanted urgent...
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Nancy Rothwell
In academia, degrees, titles such as professor, doctor and fellowship of esteemed societies mean a great deal more than becoming a Dame I've never understood the British honours system and, in spite...
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Robert Prescott: Awash with satirical soundwaves
Sir Henry Wood's statue sported a sailor's cap, signal flags exhorted "every man to do his duty" and the 2005 Proms marked the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Horatio Nelson...
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Deepthroat rumbler rumbled
Ivor Crewe, who is standing down as president of Universities UK, has been widely praised for his work helping to drive through the top-up fees Bill. Yet now the truth is out. Professor Crewe...
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Deckchairs and panel chairs
The funding council must be bored of people moaning about its pesky research assessment exercise. Indeed, rumour has it that the Higher Education Funding Council for England had been trying to rush...
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V-c opts not to meet the parents
Steve Smith, vice-chancellor of Exeter University, was not at last week's graduation ceremonies for chemistry and languages students - the areas hit in last year's departmental cull. Those who had...
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Lukewarm interest in heating up
Peers and politicians have been acting jolly interested in climate change recently. But are they as informed as they should be? One science-minded Lord tells us that he borrowed the important report...
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Guidance that takes the biscuit
Running a university is a weighty business. Thankfully, Edinburgh University's academic affairs, planning and secretariat department is taking its job very seriously with the issue of new guidance on...
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Why I...believe universities should be more understanding of fee paying students
At Sussex University, the annual dissertation dash has become a grand tradition. It is known as the "five o'clock run" or the "run of shame", as thousands of students have to hand in final coursework...
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Too bad, 'good girl'
Our increasingly feminised culture ought to help women succeed but it doesn't, argues Mary Evans When footballer Paul Gascoigne famously burst into tears on the pitch, he had no idea that he would...
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Bard, by any name, is still sweet
It's a noble idea that a team rather than one man wrote the works of Shakespeare, says William Leahy The announcement by Michael Boyd, the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, that the...
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The sticky issue of fudging it
Misconduct is part of human nature, laments Tim Birkhead. Even scientists are at it It's not been a good week: a lot of exam marking, a wet field course and three separate instances of scientific...