Summer cash crisis predicted
Universities will face a crisis over pay and funding this summer that will be more severe than the one now hitting schools, university employers warned this week. "There will either be large-scale...
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Devil's in our detail
To survive in the new academy, the humanities must refocus on the 'big issues', argues Eric Gould Despite some nasty scrapes, "humanity" in the singular has managed to survive. But in the plural?...
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Why I believe history textbooks should tell the truth about Europe's violent past
Growing up in Turkey, I thought that table manners were "western" and that we learnt how to use the knife and fork from the more "civilised" Europeans. Didn't Norbert Elias in The History of Manners...
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Healthy students shun caff delights
The campus cafeteria's days could be numbered, according to a survey out this week. It reveals that health-conscious students now require continental-style bars and coffee shops, as popularised by...
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League tables 2003: Who hits lofty heights?
Radical changes to this year's league tables give some surprising results, says John O'Leary Ten years after the publication of the first British university league tables, the rankings still have...
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Figures hid true graduate jobs picture
Official figures exaggerate the employment prospects of graduates in some of higher education's most popular subjects by failing to distinguish between different types of job, according to university...
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Physicist finds that the chef's hat fits
Alison Cole, 29, graduated in physics from Imperial College London before becoming a chef. She has worked at some of the country's top venues and is now a full-time mother, writes Alison Goddard. She...
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In the news: Leslie Wagner
Leslie Wagner has been telling headhunters for a while that he is not interested in another vice-chancellorship when he retires from Leeds Metropolitan University in August. But when he was asked to...
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Appointments
* John Barrow , professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, has been appointed Gresham professor of astronomy. He will...
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Harvard funding model 'is not for UK'
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision Endowments can never free the government from funding higher education, Cambridge University says in its response to the...
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Northern Dance gets lift from affiliation
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance is to become affiliated to the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. The school is regarded as the leading contemporary dance school outside London and teaches...
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Show your art, institutions told
Universities do not make the most of their museum collections, keeping them for select researchers rather than opening them up for teaching purposes. As the University of East Anglia's Sainsbury...
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FE-business venture seals export deal
Further education colleges have teamed up with equipment suppliers to open a multimillion-pound international market. Colleges are offering training as part of a package to help foreign teaching...
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CVU may validate two-year degrees
The Council of Validating Universities has emerged as a leading candidate to represent higher education in Foundation Degree Forward, the body that will offer a national validation service for...
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Cranfield pitches in to help the FA tackle turf
The Football Association is leaving no stone, or turf, unturned in its strategy to win back the World Cup - or any major international trophy for that matter. It has turned to the science of surfaces...