Safety row after knife attacks
Unions have attacked Greenwich University for pushing ahead with plans to cut campus security staff despite two robberies by knife-wielding intruders in recent weeks. The university this week...
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Project lifts the hood on male dropouts
The stereotyping of white working-class youths in "hoodies" as feckless thugs creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that means many young men do not enter higher education or, if they do, do not...
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Kent institute sues ex-head for £300K
Kent Institute of Art and Design (Kiad) is pursuing one of its former academics for damages of at least £300,000 after he left to set up a rival architecture school at neighbouring Kent University....
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High-tech honeytrap How Singapore is systematically luring leading scientists with the promise of freedom, cash and luxury to set up labs in the South-East Asian city-state
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RAE raises UK journal activity
The research assessment exercise has driven up the UK's share of world research citations, a conference on publishing and the RAE sponsored by The Times Higher heard this week. According to higher...
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Home PhDs trumped by overseas maths experts
The UK's research funding regime skews the academic jobs market against British mathematics postgraduates in favour of more experienced researchers from overseas, according to leading mathematicians...
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Funding councils unveil new submissions criteria
The higher education funding councils published detailed guidance this week on what information institutions will need to gather for their submissions to the 2008 research assessment exercise....
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Put lecturers first, academy told
The Higher Education Academy, set up to improve the teaching skills of lecturers, risks ignoring the professional needs of academics as it concentrates on improving the learning experience for...
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Child's play is winning way
Watching the way his stepdaughter learnt as a child helped lecturer Paul Elmer develop the teaching style that this week won him a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. Mr Elmer, a senior...
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Higher education academy's national teaching fellows 2005
Experienced staff Patrick Bailey , professor of organic chemistry, Manchester University Philip Barker , professor of applied computing, Teesside University Colin Beard , senior lecturer, Sheffield...
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London Met strike talks
Managers at London Metropolitan University and officials of lecturers' union Natfhe have agreed to hold talks over industrial action at the institution. Natfhe has agreed to "an indefinite suspension...
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Thumbs up for Swansea
Swansea University announced this week that its decision to restructure five departments had been vindicated by its visitor, after an investigation lasting more than a year. A report from Philip...
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Schwartz heads to Oz
Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, is to take up the top post at Macquarie University in Sydney. Professor Schwartz, the author of a government-commissioned report on fair...
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New blood for Hefce
The Higher Education Funding Council for England appointed three new board members this week - David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Tim Wilson, vice-chancellor of...
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It's back to their chairs
Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, is likely to resume his seat as chairman of the influential Education and Skills Select Committee. It is unclear whether Ian Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich...