Napier aims for top spot
Napier University is advertising for three "champions of change" to help to achieve its goal of becoming Scotland's leading modern university within five years. Joan Stringer, the principal, is...
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AUT to fight Brunel axe
The Association of University Teachers is to ballot members on industrial action in its fight to stop Brunel University axeing 60 jobs. The university is keen to boost its research standing and is...
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Ulster seeks expansion
Ulster University this week unveiled plans to almost treble student numbers on its Magee campus in Londonderry. In the past 20 years the university has increased the numbers on the campus by more...
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First-years share £1m
A bursaries scheme that rewards undergraduates who take sciences or modern languages was unveiled by Lancaster University this week. The university said it would commit £1 million to student support...
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Words mean prizes
A £7,500 literary prize for students on the University of East Anglia's famous creative writing masters course will be launched next month. The prize, the biggest of its kind, will be awarded by...
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Correction
We reported last week that no one from the Association of University Teachers had been available to comment on a local pay dispute ("Unions boycott pay talks"). In fact, the AUT did provide a comment...
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OAPs lose home in fight with college
A piece of land neighbouring a leafy campus in a conservation area seemed the perfect place to build a retirement home. But after a ten-year battle with Edge Hill College over the rowdy behaviour of...
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Model contracts to ease links with industry
It will be simpler, quicker and easier for universities to strike deals with commercial partners thanks to a set of model contracts. The Lambert Model Agreements Toolkit was launched at the...
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Managers urged to wait a year before ditching languages
Universities should wait 12 months before closing language departments, says a report on languages in higher education published today. The paper, commissioned by the Department for Education and...
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Students baffled by 'failed' fee regime
Ministers' plans to create a market in higher education have already "failed", with students, parents and teachers in a state of confusion about the new tuition fee and bursary regime, MPs were told...
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Heads enjoy 100% rise in pay over ten years
Pay for university heads has doubled over the past ten years, according to a comparison of this year's top academic earners with those from a decade ago. The average salary for the 20 highest-paid...
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Academic aid sought over terror hysteria
The UK's health services could collapse in the event of a terrorist attack as tens of thousands of "worried well" report for treatment, government advisers fear. Restricted documents leaked to The...
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Brainier - but not smarter
We humans may like to think that we have grown ever more intelligent as our brains have grown larger over the past several million years, but that is not necessarily the case, research revealed last...
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RCA places entrepreneurs in the middle of the picture
The Royal College of Art launched its innovation strategy this week, showing that commercialisation of ideas is not just for scientists, and offering a possible blueprint for other arts institutions...
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A pop - and away he goes
Hugo Glover was close to failing the first year of his design products masters course at the Royal College of Art. But a chat with a frail aunt who had a muscular disease led to a new idea for his...