Slice of job life is worth bread
Let's hear it for the sandwich degree, says Stephen Gomez. The good old sandwich degree deserves a renaissance. My faculty has offered it in sciences for nearly 30 years and, as placements tutor, I...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: David Webb Age: 41 Job: Reader in electronic engineering and member of the photonics research group at Aston...
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US hit by fees hike and cuts in budget
Students at public universities in the US are returning to their campuses this month to find dramatically higher tuition costs and poorer service after budget cuts and increases in enrolment fees....
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Ethics fears hit tests
Undergraduates are being coerced into taking part in psychological experiments, it was claimed this week. While thousands of psychology students volunteer to be subjects in research projects every...
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Wales to look at less selective policy on research funding
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is likely to resist following England's move towards greater concentration of research funding, its senior officials have said. Instead, it may continue...
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Academics wish to keep dual role
Most academics are committed to both teaching and research activities and the synergy between the two informs their work, a conference heard this week. Chris Webster, professor of urban planning at...
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Today's news
Red tape delays cancer cures, researchers say The search for cures for cancer and other diseases is being strangled by red tape from Brussels and Westminster, scientists from Cancer Research UK said...
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Demand soars for plumb courses
Politicians' jibes about the contrast between highly paid plumbers and unemployable graduates have led to a boom in applications for plumbing courses. Colleges were flooded with inquiries after media...
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Top-ups are non-negotiable
Academics will sacrifice the chance of a decent pay rise if they fail to back the government over top-up fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said this week. In his first major interview, Mr...
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In the news: Sir Martin Rees
Astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees established his name in the firmament of outspoken UK academics when he became the first scientist to address the Labour Party Conference in Brighton three years ago...
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Appointments
Dave Berger, senior counsellor at the University of Hull, has been elected to serve as chair elect for 2003-04 (following on as chair for two years from 2004-06) of the Association for University and...
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TUC backlash over fees hike
The labour movement resoundingly rejected the government's plans to introduce university top-up fees and to concentrate research funding this week. In a clear sign of the rough ride ahead for the...
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Taylor set to advise Blair
Think-tank chief Matthew Taylor has been recruited to give momentum to the Blair government as the new No. 10 policy adviser, as Labour begins trawling for ideas for its next election manifesto....
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Cubie warns Scots of risk of top-ups brain drain
Scotland risks losing research teams and overseas students if English universities end up with proportionally better funding after the white paper proposals, Andrew Cubie has warned. Dr Cubie, whose...
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Speak to staff, v-cs are urged
Academics too often take the view that the strategic goals of their university are nothing to do with them and work instead to their own agendas, vice-chancellors were told this week. Universities UK...