Snobbery is harming Scottish institutions
Scotland's traditional universities must abandon their "inflated academic snobbery" and work with new universities to help Scotland emerge from recession, a leading MSP said this week. Alex Neil,...
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Pay-offs must be justifiable
Universities will have to publish full details of pay-offs to their vice-chancellors, under guidelines issued this week. The advice, which followed an investigation triggered by The THES , stipulates...
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Union attacks nursing lecturers' pay bar
Lecturers' union Natfhe has stepped up its campaign against pay bars for nursing lecturers. A number of universities are in the process of dropping the rules, which stop nursing lecturers from...
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Findings: Fungi prevent tumour growth
A chemical extract from an oriental mushroom has proven to be an effective "vaccine" against cancer in mice. A study at the National University of Singapore has found that laboratory animals fed...
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Earth-shaking research
A team of Greek engineers has produced a computer model that could help prevent ancient monuments becoming victims of earthquakes. The research has emphasised the unpredictable nature of a particular...
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Staff and students unite to damn Canberra's voucher plan
ߣߣÊÓƵ's vice-chancellors, academics and students have flatly rejected federal government proposals for voucher-style funding of higher education. The government had suggested alternatives to the...
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AS trend deepens divide
Sixth-form exam reforms are threatening to widen the divide between old and new universities, experts warned this week. The first set of results from teenagers taking the new Curriculum 2000 courses...
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Student, 46, wins place for medicine
Mature students are expected to comprise two-thirds of the intake at one of the UK's new medical schools, with the oldest of them aged 46. Sam Leinster, dean of the University of East Anglia's new...
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Medical school saves funding for medics
One of the UK's newest medical schools, the Peninsula Medical School, is developing a model for funding student placements in a bid to stop the Department of Health transferring money from medics to...
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Ucas admits results fiasco
There could be more than 10,000 errors in offer letters sent to Scottish university applicants, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has admitted. Glasgow Caledonian University alone has...
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Oxford trailing rival in job race
Oxford University graduates were more likely to end up unemployed than their rivals at Cambridge University last year, latest careers statistics show. Both universities have blamed recession for...
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'Light touch' fails to cut red tape
The new "light-touch" quality assurance regime is unlikely to reduce the bureaucratic burden on universities, according to a former head of a quality watchdog. Roger Brown, who was chief executive of...
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Welsh escape subject-based assessments
Welsh higher education standards watchdogs are planning to abandon subject assessments in a move to a "lighter-touch" quality-assurance regime, writes Tony Tysome. Proposals for a quality-assurance...
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Blueprint will divert biology funding
Some areas of biological science are set to lose funding following a shift in emphasis by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Over the next ten years, the council predicts...
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Partnerships will broaden UK provision, says paper
British higher education must develop its own brand of "multiversity" rather than emulating the American system if it is to expand and widen participation, the Council for Industry and Higher...