Oxford bid to halve tutorials is slated
The Oxford tutorial system - in which students have traditionally received one-to-one tuition from academics - is facing major cutbacks amid concerns that students are being "overtaught" at the...
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Eggheads
Napier University students are going to work in an egg with the opening of a £30 million redeveloped business and law campus. The Craiglockhart campus features an egg-shaped 200-seat lecture theatre...
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Northern Ireland split over top-ups
Proposals announced last week to charge top-up fees for students in Northern Ireland have divided the two universities in the province. Despite across-the-board opposition from the suspended...
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Senior academics under fire for suspending student hackers
Three senior academics at Oxford University were accused this week of harshly treating two student journalists, who have been suspended after they uncovered major security flaws in the university's...
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Lecturer cashes in on a whale of a tale
A Scottish college lecturer has landed himself fiction and non-fiction publishing deals stemming from a dissertation on whaling he did in his final undergraduate year. Malcolm Archibald, a former...
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QAA report gives APU little room for appeal
Concern about the limited rights of appeal against the verdict of quality inspectors surfaced this week in the wake of the most critical report so far on a university's management. As The Times...
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Scop faces uncertainty as members seek to trade up
The future of the body that represents higher education colleges was in doubt this week as it emerged that up to half its members could seek university status. Leaders of the Standing Conference of...
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LSC review aims to ease higher transition
A new relationship between universities and further education colleges could grow out of a major review launched by the Learning and Skills Council this week, writes Tony Tysome. The LSC's Agenda for...
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LSE buys space to grow
The London School of Economics and Political Science will increase student numbers by a fifth over the next five years following the multimillion-pound purchase of the Public Trustee Office next to...
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UK limbers up for push into South American market
British universities are increasingly focusing on South America as a market for overseas students. The region is being targeted to diversify the non-European Union student population in British...
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Fungus team wins funding
Aberdeen University has won almost £250,000 to target a common fungal condition that can prove deadly when it becomes "the disease of the diseased". Microbiologist Neil Gow, one of the principal...
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Simplified FP7 cash application called for
Europe's universities are seeking a simplified process for applications for research funding under the new Framework Seven research programme. The European Universities Association, in response to a...
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NZ to consult on comparison
Another attempt is to be made to publish an international comparison of university research quality, six months after the last one was blocked by New Zealand's High Court. The Tertiary Education...
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Minister fears power of private cash on research
Mosibudi Mangena, South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology, has warned that the rapid growth in the contract income of the country's nine research councils could be reaching a point where it...
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Politicians quit as transfer scandal erupts
Two Greek politicians were forced to resign within days of each other for seeking special treatment for their student children. The children of a minister and and an opposition spokesperson were...