UUK backs students' rights
Students have every right to call their universities to account, the chief executive of Universities UK said this week. Speaking at a "Students' complaints" conference, Baroness Warwick said: "Long...
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Booming subject outstrips funding
Biological sciences are booming in UK universities, but the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council warned this week that research funding might be unable to keep up. According to...
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US may lure UK bioscientists
Britain's burgeoning bioscience sector will ship out to the US unless there is urgent action to improve funding and coordination, a government and industry report warns today, writes Anna Fazackerley...
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Solo saboteurs take the rap for torpedoing language drive
The government's national languages strategy is being undermined by a "free for all" in higher education that ignores national and regional needs, the government's languages advisory body warned this...
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V-c blames foundations plan for scuttling honours
The government policy of expanding foundation degree places needs to be re-examined, as it is stifling the growth of honours degrees, says the vice-chancellor of Newcastle University. Christopher...
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Theory, practice and Justice at last
When Terry Cape enrolled to study the unique law degree at Northumbria University, he was attracted by the savings. "I knew I would save about £6,000 on the cost of a legal practice course," he said...
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Law courses set for radical shake-up
The traditional three-year law degree could be phased out under radical plans from the Law Society to restructure legal education. The society's new training framework, currently out for consultation...
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Business told not to whinge
British business should stop "whingeing" about the perceived shortcomings of universities and address the damaging decline in their own research and development activities, according to Richard...
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Working group to resolve email overload
The discovery that staff at Newcastle University sent and received more than 100 million emails in the past year - double the number for 2000 - has prompted moves to resolve the mounting information...
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Wearable computers to liberate academia
Welcome to the campus without walls. The advent of wearable, mobile computing has the potential to liberate students, researchers and academics from the physical confines of lecture theatres,...
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Comic finds a laugh on physics website
A one-in-3-billion chance encounter with a group of US physicists provided the spark of inspiration for a sell-out tour by British comedian Dave Gorman. Mr Gorman happened upon the American Physical...
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UCL marks 30 years of e-networking
The UK's first electronic messages were full of complaints about unexpected delays, writes Steve Farrar. Yet the bouts of lethargy that would suddenly afflict the net when Peter Kirstein was trying...
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Let's junk baffling jargon, says new LSC boss
Words such as "provider", "underpinning", "stakeholder" and "learner" may be banished from Learning and Skills Council documents as part of a jargon-busting crusade launched by new chief executive...
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Another tier as red tape is cut
College funding chiefs have promised to cut the red tape crippling the sector by creating a new tier of regional management. Mark Haysom, the new chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council,...
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Bureaucracy buster on cards
A "gatekeeper" body to check government policies for excessive red tape is likely to be set up next year. The Department for Education and Skills' Better Regulation Review Group says in its interim...