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A panel discussion at LSE offered some surprising insights into the university sector. John Gill reports
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News in brief
European Research Council - Sainsbury joins review panelDavid Sainsbury, the former Science Minister, is part of a five-member high-level panel reviewing the European Research Council, the blue-skies...
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A proposal to unite all five research councils in a single organisation is the likely main recommendation from the advisory board for the Research Council's inquiry into biology. The inquiry...
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Overseas briefing
United StatesGovernor and chancellor fall outA clash between the head of Nevada's higher education system and its state governor has led to a breakdown in relations. The row stems from a newspaper...
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Land of the fee: US pay dwarfs UK remuneration
British salaries pale into insignificance compared with America's millionaires' row, writes John Gill
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Publishers struggle to co pe with open-access tide
Boston University has become the first major US higher education institution to post its academics' research online, bypassing the traditional route of publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals,...
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Defence of the cyber realm
Information underpins modern life. To protect it, a scheme is seeking ideas from all fields, writes Neha Popat
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Grant winners
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: F.Y. LiewInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £936,320Molecular and functional characterisation of the novel cytokine IL-35Award winner: J.K. BallInstitution...
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Silver linings
Cara Murphy's craft has not been hit by the credit crunch and her new commissions include one from Downing Street
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Appointments
Two pro vice-chancellors have been appointed at Keele University. Marilyn Andrews, head of the School for Health and Rehabilitation, has been named pro vice-chancellor for learning and student...
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A first-class ticket to a whole world of big ideas
The role of chancellor suits Bill Bryson's curiosity and popularising instinct. Melanie Newman writes
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Select Committee Inquiry - 85% failure rate was 'appropriate', but marks were raised
Claims that academic standards are slipping have been submitted to an inquiry on higher education by the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee. Among them are tales of...
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Select Committee Inquiry - 'Compensated passes' and easier work are the reality, says lecturer
An economics lecturer has told MPs that her university is guilty of dumbing down its course content and pass marks, with the average graduate having to achieve far less to obtain a degree today than...
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Select Committee Inquiry - Third-class efforts won firsts, examiner claims
An external examiner has claimed that at one university, first-class marks were routinely given to students for work that merited only third-class degrees or even failures.Richard Royle, senior...
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Select Committee Inquiry - Can't think, won't think: students damned by scholars
"Key concepts and intellectual ideas that students readily understood 10-15 years ago ... they struggle to understand today," Peter Dorey, reader in British politics at Cardiff University, told the...