Single mind suffers double vision
Following the union of Guildhall and North London universities, John Shaw looks at the pros and cons of merger When universities merge, teaching staff might feel they inhabit a Lewis Carroll universe...
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On the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Caroline Baillie Age: Definitely five, sometimes 100. Job: Deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education...
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Graduate jobs data deemed flawed
Performance indicators designed to measure universities' success in getting graduates into work are worthless, a professor of economics who has studied the formula and pronounced it fundamentally...
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EU cash is poisoned chalice, says UK
UK researchers are afraid to apply for funding from Europe in case they are too successful, the House of Commons science and technology committee has heard. European Framework funding was viewed as a...
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Scientists claim shuttle 'not vital'
The loss of the space shuttle Columbia may have been a human tragedy but many US scientists say its impact on research is less than catastrophic, despite the loss of more than 100 on-board...
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Peerless secretarial skills
Former Cabinet minister and Labour Party stalwart Barbara Castle, who died last year aged 91, has left the original transcript of her Cabinet diaries from the 1960s to the University of Bradford....
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Appointments
Susan Baker , a reader in social sciences at Cardiff University, has been appointed King Carl XVI Gustaf's professor of environmental sciences for 2003-04 based at Umeå University, Sweden. The...
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Union fury as v-cs pocket 6% pay rise
Vice-chancellors have accepted far greater pay rises than the increases given to their staff. University heads got a median rise of 6 per cent last year, according to a survey by The THES . Some 33...
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Threat of 'lockout' at London Met sparks talk of staff boycott
Lecturers' leaders are planning an academic boycott of London Metropolitan University as industrial relations there collapse. Staff have been told that they will have their salaries stopped if they...
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In the news: Edward Said
Fellows at King's College, Cambridge, have closed ranks over reports that they have turned down distinguished Palestinian-born academic Edward Said for an honorary fellowship. The college refused to...
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White paper is 'Tory-friendly'
The Conservative Party should back the government's plans for higher education and end the agony of opposition policy for opposition's sake, a former Tory minister said this week. Robert Jackson, who...
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Entente cordiale benefits students
This week's bridge-building summit between the UK and France over Iraq produced one spectacular success in the form of a groundbreaking agreement to create the first cross-Channel university, writes...
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Cambridge's status at risk
Cambridge University could be excluded from the government's elite tier of research universities after academics dismissed proposals to reform the way the institution is run. Vice-chancellor Alec...
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Fact: term jobs damage grades
The first concrete evidence that poorer students are undermining their academic performance by working during term time emerged at a Universities UK seminar on debt this week. Higher education...
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Graduates seek bankruptcy to clear debt
Hundreds of students and recent graduates are seeking to declare themselves bankrupt in a bid to write off their student debt, the National Union of Students said this week. Since it emerged this...