Labour MPs turn on the chancellor
Members of the education select committee have condemned Treasury plans for substantial cuts to university spending in the week in which the government promised "opportunity for all". Gordon Marsden...
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Don's diary
Monday. Saba looms into view, rising like a jagged green shark's tooth from the deep blue of the Caribbean. Our tiny Windward Island Air- ways plane bounces through a steep descent, its wingtips...
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Chimbote
Several hundred Peruvian students were arrested after they held the campus at the Universidad Nacional del Santa in Chimbote under siege for a day in protest at the re-election of president Alberto...
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Petaling Jaya
Ethnic groups in Malaysia have again questioned the fairness of quotas that favour Malay students' entry to local universities over Chinese and Indian students with better A-level grades.
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26 on shortlist for new humanities centres
The Arts and Humanities Research Board has announced a shortlist of 26 applications for its new scheme of research centres. It will fund new or existing centres to undertake strategically important...
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Quebec
Twenty-seven students were injured after they drank vending machine coffee laced with arsenic at Laval University in Quebec City. Animal rights extremists are suspected, because the machine is...
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Cash incentive boosts trainee teachers
Teacher training applications have increased by 32 per cent since last year, following the government's announcement that postgraduate trainees will be paid Pounds 6,000 from September. Estelle...
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Decision on Euro merger taken today
Senior managers from European universities will decide today whether to merge the CRE (Association of European Universities) with the Confederation of Rectors Conferences. If the CRE, meeting in...
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Modern career service template to be made
Sir Martin Harris, Manchester University's vice-chancellor, is leading a review into the state of British university careers services, due to report by the end of the year. An expert panel, including...
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Police investigate 'forged' documents
The police have been called into Southampton Institute to investigate allegations that university documents have been forged. The THES has obtained documents that purport to show that a lecturer in...
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Reprieve for workers after union climbdown
The threatened sacking of nearly 600 part-time lecturers at Woolwich and Greenwich Community College has been averted following a pay and conditions deal between management and union leaders. College...
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St Andrews will fight student rape lawsuit
St Andrews University says it will defend itself "robustly" against a lawsuit by a former student who says she was raped in 1996 during an exchange trip to Odessa in the Ukraine. Erin McLean, who has...
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Oxbridge under fire for masters awards
Labour MPs have launched an attack over the way Oxford and Cambridge award masters degrees. In a Commons' motion, 20 Labour MPs said Oxford and Cambridge's system of automatically granting an MA to...
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Athlete goes to bed up a mountain
Sports scientists at Staffordshire University have recreated the French Alps in an athlete's bedroom in an attempt to boost Britain's medal chances in this year's Olympics. While Spencer Duval, 30, a...
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Teachers working all hours
University teachers work half as much unpaid overtime as their basic paid hours, according to figures published in the McCrone inquiry into Scottish teachers' conditions of service. A comparison of...