Internal politics hold up spin-offs
Caroline Davis attends the launch of the UK's first Enterprise Week Departmental politics and slow decision making are among the main barriers to the creation of university spin-off companies,...
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'Oh no, not another professor trying to be a business manager'
Colin Howard is vice-principal for strategic development and professor of veterinary microbiology and parasitology at the Royal Veterinary College. He is also director of the London...
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Enterprise 'gap year' proposed
Students should be encouraged to take a "gap year" for enterprise development along the lines of language students spending a year abroad. The proposal came from Kevin Steele, chief executive of...
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Caught in vicious cycle of declining standards
Academics say the resources squeeze is forcing alarming compromises. Phil Baty reports on the results of an exclusive poll On the face of it, the statement by Les Ebdon, Luton University's vice-...
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To give the university some credit - and they don't deserve much - the pressure is less to pass students who are borderline than to revise module requirements to ensure that they pass. For example,...
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Students providing replica replies are cleared of plagiarism - because module leader supplied model answers in advance of exams
"There appears to be a serious plagiarism problem," a Middlesex University tutor wrote in an urgent email tocolleagues thissummer. A large batch of exam papers from a group of undergraduates sitting...
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Visa clampdown delivers £30m fees income blow
Universities have lost about £30 million in vital tuition fee income this year as a result of a Government clampdown on visa applications from overseas students, the Conservatives claimed this week....
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UK drive to boost overseas numbers
The Government this week urged universities and colleges to boost their contribution to the UK economy by recruiting more overseas students and becoming global centres of excellence for teaching and...
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Long view
The report Cross-Border Higher Education: An Analysis of Current Trends, Policy Strategies and Future Scenarios , published by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, suggests three scenarios...
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US part funds primer
Nottingham Trent University has set up one of the UK's first campus "prep schools" for overseas students in partnership with a US company. The International College, based at the university, will...
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'I know the value of flexibility for mature students'
Dame Sandra Burslem is well placed to understand the difficulties facing mature students - she enrolled on her first degree as a 28-year-old single mother. "I was a single parent and I enrolled at...
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Do more for older students, v-c says
The Government, academics and universities must do more for older students, a leading vice-chancellor said this week after figures revealed evidence of an increasingly ageing student body. Dame...
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NUS president may contest Clarke seat
Students' leader Kat Fletcher may stand as an anti-tuition fees candidate against Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, at the next general election, it emerged this week. Ms Fletcher, president...
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Sector seeks cross-party support in US
American universities face, at best, four years of stalemate with the re-election of George W. Bush and a Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, according to university lobbyists and...
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Joint project a first
An ߣߣÊÓƵn state government has negotiated a deal to establish the country's first branch campus of an American university. South ߣߣÊÓƵ's Labor Premier, Mike Rann, last week signed an...