Quality-assurance blueprint puts nail in coffin for TQA
University leaders have won their war against the quality inspectors with a quality-assurance blueprint that strikes a blow for institutional autonomy and all but abolishes teaching quality...
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Campaign to axe fees intensifies
THES reporters look at the distortions caused by the student finance system. The National Union of Students Scotland is stepping up its campaign for fees to be axed and grants reinstated across the...
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Call to help needy students
THES reporters look at the distortions caused by the student finance system. Student finance is "socially regressive" and "complex, confusing and bureaucratic", say the left-leaning think-tank the...
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Postcode lottery restricts access to bursaries
THES reporters look at the distortions caused by the student finance system. Universities are being forced to deny opportunity bursaries to thousands of poor students because they do not live in the...
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Elitism bid threatens 300 Newcastle jobs
Newcastle University's plans to get into the top ten of Britain's elite universities are expected to cost up to 300 jobs. Confirming radical restructuring plans to raise £6 million a year for...
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Northampton staff fight threat of redundancies
Academics and support staff at University College Northampton are stepping up a campaign to fight the threat of 22 compulsory redundancies, writes Tony Tysome. UCN managers have said the job cuts are...
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Engineers call for clusters
Universities should concentrate engineering provision in a few centres of excellence, industry chiefs said this week after new figures showed graduate numbers down by a fifth. The Engineering...
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Reader declares himself a terrorist
A senior member of Cambridge University has declared himself an international terrorist and has invited colleagues to report him to the police in a move to highlight concerns about provisions in the...
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Star studies
Jane Robertson, lecturer in media at Paisley University, gets to grips with screen idol Steve McQueen for the launch of a BA in cinema and cultural industries. It will include theoretical film...
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College offers a one-year 'BA'
A London college is offering students with no A levels the chance to gain a full bachelor of arts degree in under a year. MST College, a college for Orthodox Jewish women in Hendon that does not have...
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Whistleblowers
Senior academics have condemned Bradford University's decision to exclude a respected modern linguist from the research assessment exercise for "strategic reasons". The Association of University...
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Analysis: New arrival causes chaos
Curriculum 2000 is under fire but Labour must think carefully before hastily altering its agenda, Cherry Canovan reports. Changes in the post-16 curriculum were intended to produce students with a...
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RAE system error
So many experts have been keen to spend their summer judging this year's research assessment exercise that the computer giving them access to the submitted papers has crashed. A notice posted at the...
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Cell research, perhaps?
Oxford tutorials never featured as highly in Jeffrey Archer's life as he liked to make out, but this could be set to change. Jonathan Aitken, who has been describing from first-hand experience the...
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No pregnant pause
Part of the elite training of Oxford undergraduates involves learning to ignore the eccentricities of their tutors. Hence Mary Archer's ability - cited this week as an example of her extreme...