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...
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Outrage at axing of classics
Queen's University Belfast should beware the ides of August - classics scholars across the UK and Ireland have mobilised to protest against its decision to axe teaching in Latin, Greek and classical...
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Caution on Pimlott ignored
The governing council at Goldsmiths College awarded Ben Pimlott a second five-year term as warden against the recommendation of its own reappointment committee, it emerged this week. The THES has...
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Union bids to improve access
Scotland should jettison postcodes as a means of determining whether students come from disadvantaged areas, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. Instead, it has come up with an...
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Five-star rhyme
Staff in the University of Birmingham's Research Support and Business Development Unit have attempted to lighten the gloom of the latest round of redundancies, which were brought about by the failure...
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Robbing the bank
The Diary is intrigued that York University Students' Union has placed an "essay bank" on its website. Along with physics, politics, health and other topics are five offerings on criminology,...
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Scissors for a snip
Student poverty being what it is these days, institutions have their work cut out trying to prevent students pilfering items such as stationery - no doubt to sell on the black market to raise a few...
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Mucky proposal
The small but growing Institute for Learning and Teaching is rebranding itself following protests that it has stolen the registered ILT trademark of the Institute of Logistics and Transport. From now...
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Man or mistress?
A perplexing tip-off arrives for The Diary. Girton College, Cambridge, has elected a new deputy head. Is this an entry for the dearly departed "On the move" column? Or an amusing anecdote, given that...
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Tourist trap
Tourists are being targeted as potential students by the University of Wales, Bangor. It is distributing leaflets showing Snowdonia and the Menai Strait to tourist information centres, shops, hotels...