UK's competitive edge relies on academia
Increasing government support for higher education and sustaining spending on the science base are crucial to revamping the UK's failing competitive edge, according to research that will influence...
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Body Count Cadaver shortage problem for medical schools Range wars Kitchens - the third front in the cold war US follows Hobbes, Europe follows Kant Gary McDowell reviews Robert Kagan's Paradise and...
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New Stirling principal
Christine Hallett, Stirling University's senior deputy principal, has been appointed acting principal following the sudden death of principal Colin Bell last month. Professor Hallett, who held the...
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Refugees highly skilled
Most asylum-seekers and refugees possess high-level qualifications and want to work, yet the vast majority are unemployed, Birmingham University researchers have found. A Learning and Skills Council...
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Dundee charity probe
Dundee University is set to investigate its dealings with charities after claims that it muzzled whistleblowing about an organisation that has been banned from representing itself as a charity. The...
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Research resistance
The Research Councils UK strategy group has warned against the government's attempts in its higher education white paper to concentrate research excellence in fewer institutions. The response, which...
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Islamic studies launch
De Montfort University has teamed up with Leicester's Muslim Community College to run a joint honours degree course in Islamic studies from September.
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CIHEF fires enterprise
The Creative Industries Higher Education Forum is setting up a group to identify ways of boosting knowledge transfer. The forum, a product of Universities UK and the Department for Culture, Media and...
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Universal backing for stand on racists
Phil Baty reports on fierce debate at Natfhe's annual conference Lecturers' union Natfhe will support unreservedly any member who refuses to teach, or to work with, any known member of the British...
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New degree is a 'cheap and inferior con'
Phil Baty reports on fierce debate at Natfhe's annual conference Foundation degrees are a "con on working-class people", the Natfhe conference agreed. Delegates threw out parts of a motion that gave...
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Call to merge praised
Phil Baty reports on fierce debate at Natfhe's annual conference The president of the Association of University Teachers won a standing ovation when she called for one union for the higher education...
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Integrity is not safe in hands of 'crass' government
Phil Baty reports on fierce debate at Natfhe's annual conference The government will destroy the integrity of higher education if its white paper becomes law, Natfhe claimed at its annual conference...
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Whistleblowers: High Court urged to quash Ofsted report
A mature student plans to ask the High Court to tear up an Ofsted inspection report on his former college, claiming that some of its findings are "perverse and irrational" and that inspectors failed...
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Call for foreign scholars to take anti-terror oath
The Commons science and technology committee is keen to introduce a Hippocratic-style oath for scientists to aid the fight against terrorism. At an evidence session on the scientific response to...
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Academy to take lead role
Newcastle College is to build the UK's largest further education music, performance and media centre at its Rye Hill campus. The £19 million fame academy, funded by the Learning and Skills Council...