Libraries join the net
Historic book collections in Oxford University's Bodleian Library are to be made available to the public online through a joint initiative with web search engine company Google. Oxford, and the US...
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Red-tape warning
The group responsible for recommending reductions in higher education bureaucracy has warned its successor body to guard against new threats. The Better Regulation Review Group, chaired by David...
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Race for place tightens
Oxford University's admissions figures published this week show that the proportion of applicants offered a place has dropped for the third year running. Three years ago more than a third (34.2 per...
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Furious parents round on Exeter
A group of angry parents and secondary schoolteachers are preparing to take legal action against Exeter University if it approves plans to close its chemistry and music departments next week. The...
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Drop in demand forces Hull to axe maths
Hull University is to close its maths department in the face of falling student demand for the subject. The university has said that existing staff will be moved to York University to ensure that...
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It's a downward spiral of decline
As degree up-take dwindles, so does teacher supply. Anthea Lipsett reports "In 2002, only 7 per cent of people who went into secondary schools to teach science had a physics degree," says Peter Main...
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I'm often 'between jobs'
Michelle Terry was lucky enough to be spotted by a casting director when showcasing her work as a final-year student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, part of the Conservatoire for Dance and...
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Survey a flop, say heads
What are the job prospects for art and drama students? It is a sensitive question for conservatoires and art schools keen to dispel accusations that their graduates are less employable than those...
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Lawyer issues warning on prospectus promises
Universities risk being sued by students if they make claims in prospectuses or at recruitment fairs that they cannot live up to, a higher education lawyer has warned. Nicola Hart, head of the...
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Oxford to spend £6m a year on bursaries
Oxford University is to spend a third of its top-up fee income on "opportunity bursaries" from 2006 - but only 3 per cent of undergraduates are expected to qualify for a full award, worth £10,000 for...
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Bone idol
What to do with the leftover Christmas turkey? Turn it into a floral display. Ewan Manson, a third-year fine art student at Dundee University, specialises in turning poultry and fish bones into...
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Academics berate useless postgrads
Excessive red tape, punishing teaching schedules and mountains of marking are all blamed for eating into academics' valuable research time, but now the finger is also being pointed at incompetent...
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Is an easy chair culture taking over campus?
Some academics claim the proliferation of professorships devalues the title, but others say its narrow definition as an academic expert is outdated in a changing landscape. Anna Fazackerley reports "...
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Two professors defend their record
Malcolm Schofield, professor of ancient philosophy, Cambridge University In a lively Senate House debate about the dearth of promotion opportunities for scholars at Cambridge University in 2001,...
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ANU and Melbourne top Aussie rankings
An ߣߣÊÓƵn survey, the first of its kind, has ranked the country's universities in terms of their international standing. The "group of eight" oldest and most research-intensive institutions top...