Pawn in drinking game?
Chess fans could find themselves out on the piece more often if they take up a boozy variant of the game, designed by an art student at Leeds University. Drinking Games is the brainchild of Susan...
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UK research to sit international maths test
A team of the world's top mathematicians is about to find out how good the UK is at the subject. The 13-strong group plans to descend on Britain in December as part of a project to assess British...
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War of letters on MRC
The Commons Science and Technology Committee was drawn into a public squabble with the Department of Trade and Industry last week over the committee's damning report on the Medical Research Council....
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Withholding exam results from debtors may be unlawful
Universities may be acting illegally if they withhold exam results from students who owe them money, an education lawyer has warned after the Office of Fair Trading forced Kingston University to...
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Lib Dems plan tough standards
Many honours degree courses could be forcibly downgraded to foundation degree status if they failed to meet rigorous inspection demands under Liberal Democrat plans for higher education. Lib Dem...
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Tories 'have got numbers wrong'
Nearly 80,000 student places would have to be slashed to cover a multimillion pound deficit under Conservative Party plans for funding higher education, according to a new economic analysis, writes...
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Industry tie no road to riches
Many UK universities are being overambitious about how much revenue they will be able to generate through business links and innovation activities, says Richard Lambert, who is running the government...
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Narrow focus key to London innovation
London needs to concentrate on just three of its 40 higher education institutions to turn around its poor innovation record, according to Sir Derek Roberts, provost and president of University...
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Students rate teamwork below presentation skills
Students are neglecting the most essential workplace skill demanded by employers - teamwork - according to a survey. Teamworking emerged as the lowest rated skill, according to a survey of more than...
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UK technology stars revealed
Details of who is paying universities for the privilege of exploiting their research and technology have emerged for the first time from an interim report by Nottingham University Business School....
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Turkish president presses for state overhaul
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has called for sweeping democratic reforms of higher education in what is seen as a direct attack on the controlling higher education authority. At ceremony to...
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V-c power struggle
ߣߣÊÓƵ's vice-chancellors say the federal government's plans for higher education will reduce university autonomy, adversely affect overseas student numbers and deter poor students from enrolling...
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Call for local course design
Colleges should be given the freedom to design their own vocational qualifications as part of a radical review of the nature and purpose of further education that is needed to meet the government's...
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Colleges to apply for university title and validation powers
Some further education colleges plan to apply for taught-degree awarding powers and may bid for a university title under new rules proposed by the government, writes Tony Tysome. Large "mixed economy...
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Sewage clean-up hits birds
A greener environment with cleaner water could threaten one of the UK's greatest wildlife spectacles - the 2 million water birds that come to spend the winter on estuarine and non-estuarine coasts,...