Corruption of quality
An obsession with monitoring is destroying higher education, argues Stephen Prickett In March 2001, along with several thousand others, I received a corrupt offer in the form of a letter from an...
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Update: 12:40
Spending review date to be announced next week The date of the comprehensive spending review is to be announced next week, Robin Cook confirmed to the House of Commons yesterday. He told Tory former...
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Government urged to ditch Capita after ILA failure
MPs have urged the government to abandon Capita in the development of new individual learning accounts after the company's "appalling failures" in delivering the first scheme. Capita won a £50...
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Lecturers told to get real-world job skills
Lecturers should spend time in the "real" world of work to learn the practical skills they need to teach job-seeking students. Too many lecturers have spent most or all their working lives in academe...
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Cambridge plans diluted
Cambridge University has backed down on proposals to increase the number of signatories needed to force a ballot at Regent House from ten to 50. The change was proposed by the university earlier this...
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Makeover for degree at TVU
Foundation degrees for hairdressers, beauticians and aromatherapists will be offered next year under plans being developed by Thames Valley University. The university is developing an applied...
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Medics' funding future healthy
A reorganisation of the funding of medical, nursing and other healthcare students will bring stable funding and long-term investment to many new universities - but medics fear that it will also mean...
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Sci-fi crosses respect frontier
Science fiction has not been considered respectable because book covers are too brash for the average middle-class reader. But it is now achieving academic respectability, according to a researcher....
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Welsh science suffers neglect
Welsh researchers want a coherent science policy for Wales and the creation of a government advisory body to boost the weak research and development base. Wales has no science policy, and there is...
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Analysis: Just a chip off the old block?
In our second article marking the tenth year of new universities, Claire Sanders talks to parents and children who attended the same institution - pre and post-92. Bill and Steven Marshall Bill...
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Whistleblowers: Students challenge support for Monash v-c
The selection panel that appointed David Robinson vice-chancellor of Monash University was not aware that he had admitted to "a serious violation of scholarly standards" during his early career in...
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Business schools face jobs crisis
A surfeit of over-50s staff is storing up trouble for business, management and accountancy in universities. Business schools fear that mass retirement, coupled with a growing reliance on contract and...
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Today's news
Vitamin pills are a waste of money Vitamin pills are a waste of money and have no effect in combating disease, cancer or any other illness, while wider use of cholesterol-lowering drugs would reduce...
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Cutting edge: When medicine is a risky business
One in 15 acute medical admissions is medication-related but few of these are due to GP error, says Tony Avery. "First do no harm" is one of the most important ethical principles in medicine, and it...
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Prague
The prospect of university tuition fees has been knocked off the Czech political agenda in negotiations to form a governing coalition.