Grants may be key to success
A package of New Year concessions on the higher education bill could see student maintenance grants raised but the government promised no retreat on variable charges this week. Publication of the...
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Nottingham strike threat over job scale
Academics at Nottingham University are threatening industrial action over the introduction of a job evaluation scheme imported from the private sector that has left at least one member of staff...
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Laureate backs pop science
Academics who popularise science on television should be congratulated and not attacked, Nobel laureate John Sulston said last week, writes Anna Fazackerley. Professor Sulston, who published the...
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May doubts research link
Royal Society president Robert May this week questioned universities' pious insistence that research was a prerequisite of good teaching. Delivering the Royal Society anniversary address on Monday,...
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Next week
Judgement day How do you measure up? Find out in this year's performance indicators ALSO Tom Palaima on why wars start Civil liberties at risk : review of Ene my Aliens: Double Standards and...
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QAA 'must guard integrity' if university rules relaxed
Quality watchdogs must guard the intellectual integrity of colleges seeking to become universities under new government proposals, a think-tank has warned. Bahram Bekhradnia, director of the Higher...
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'Sad' image under attack
University prospectuses are badly designed and contain "amazingly cheesy and sad images" that risk putting off applicants, a leading British designer has warned. Wayne Hemingway, founder of the Red...
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Students left at mercy of landlords in housing bill
Nearly 900,000 students will be excluded from government plans to "protect the most vulnerable" in the new housing bill, leaving them exposed to rogue landlords and unsafe housing, according to the...
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Aston merger talks fire up AUT
Union leaders have urged Aston University managers and staff to be cautious about proposals for a merger with the University of Central England. In a letter to Aston vice-chancellor Michael Wright,...
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AUT and employers square up over pay
AUT is 'promulgating completely wrong information' about the pay offer Ucea 'published disingenuous claims' about 20 per cent pay rises AUT's claims are a 'deliberate strategy' to bolster support for...
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Whistleblowers: Surrey ordered to compensate PhD student
Surrey University must pay compensation to a failed PhD student because her supervisor omitted to tell her that her work was not good enough. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer of Thornton, acting on...
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Biologists accused of apathy
MPs attacked a research council this week for doing too little to fight a growing "anti-science culture", and claimed that it lacked passion in the controversial debate over genetic modification....
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Martin Ince
Science researchers must work harder to show the applications of their labour to secure government funding. Nobody can doubt the present British government's commitment to science. John Prescott,...
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UEL pips Palace to the poet
The University of East London has got one up on Buckingham Palace. Poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who last week publicly rejected the offer of an OBE, has accepted an honorary doctorate from the university...
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Car chase ends in Dundee court
A student who took a BMW from a dealership as part of a university rugby club initiation has been banned from driving for a year. Jonathon Cummins, 22, from Dundee University, led police on a high-...