Queen honours top 20 projects
Genetic fingerprinting, work with refugees, Charles Darwin's letters and the science of cleaning were among 20 winners of the Queen's Anniversary prizes for higher and further education, awarded last...
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Whistleblowers: Serial litigant accuses race council of racism
The race equality watchdog has joined a growing list of institutions accused of racism by former Greenwich University lecturer Suresh Deman. The THES reported last week that Mr Deman, a business...
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US early admissions lose favour
Competition among America's elite institutions for the best students has taken another twist with last week's announcements by Stanford and Yale universities that they will drop their early...
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Appointments
Tim Wilson is to take over as vice-chancellor of Hertfordshire University next year when Neil Buxton retires after 15 years. Professor Wilson, a former rugby coach, has been at the university since...
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MPs threaten to revolt over top-up fees
Labour backbenchers are threatening a revolt over top-up fees amid fears that higher tuition charges will deter young people from poor families, writes Alan Thomson. More than 90 Labour MPs have...
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Ministers must cough up £17.5m to meet careers goals, say v-cs
The government must plough an extra £9.6 million a year into higher education, as well as £7.9 million in one-off capital expenditure, if careers services are to meet graduate employability...
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In the news: Malcolm Grant
The prospect of a life spent inside an ivory tower has never appealed to Malcolm Grant, pro vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. He has a string of outside interests including being a barrister...
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Regional targets to be set for poor
Targets are to be set detailing the numbers of poorer people universities must recruit in each English region, funding council officials confirmed this week. A document to be published soon...
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College leads growing protest
A Cambridge University college has expressed "distaste" for top-up fees as the university prepares to restate its position on the issue. Cambridge is today expected to oppose the charging of...
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Kabul students take to streets after shooting
Protests at Kabul University led to violent clashes with the police this week, leaving at least one student dead and sparking more demonstrations and the occupation of the university. The first major...
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Sceptics discover predictable results in ESP study
One of the largest probes into the possible existence of extrasensory perception has found no evidence of the phenomenon despite the involvement of ,856 participants. The Mind Machine experiment,...
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Harvard drops Paulin's talk
Harvard University has cancelled a lecture by Oxford academic and poet Tom Paulin after complaints about his criticisms of Israel. Mr Paulin had been due to speak to the English department last night...
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Canny spin-off hailed as trendsetter
ߣߣÊÓƵ's first private university spin-off from a public university has been praised as an original that could start a trend. The UK Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, which tracks...
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Vigilante students tackle skinheads
Students at Voronezh University in Russia have set up a vigilante unit to protect overseas students from racist attacks by local skinheads. Muggings of students of non-European origin by local...
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Chinese to curb PC use by night owls
Beijing's Tsinghua University has banned first-year students from taking personal computers into dormitories because of fears they will lurk late into the night in internet chatrooms. The university...