The week in higher education
- Jerry Jarvis, managing director of exam board Edexcel, warned in The Guardian on 17 April that up to 40,000 students could be saddled with "worthless" vocational diplomas. He claimed that teachers...
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QAA warns institutions off 'gold-plating' their audits
Avoid wasteful bureaucratic second-guessing, says watchdog chief. Rebecca Attwood reports
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HEA draws worldwide criticism over suspension
Academics from around the world have joined in criticism of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy following the suspension of its director of research and evaluation.Lee Harvey was suspended from the post,...
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Experts criticise 'pseudo-scientific' complementary medicine degrees
Vice-chancellors should re-examine courses, say campaigners. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Icons of the 1960s are in need of £11bn makeover
Report says buildings require costly repairs as they near the end of their lives, writes Chloe Stothart
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Income of £7,000 required to cut dropout risk
Students need a guaranteed minimum income of £7,000 to combat the risk of dropping out through financial hardship, the National Union of Students Scotland has warned.Findings detailed in the report...
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Egyptian joint venture falters
Loughborough University highlights difficulties with degree validation. Melanie Newman reports
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20 years ago
"Reading for a degree is out of fashion, and has come to seem either a quaint affectation, or even worse, a flaunting of elitism by association. But the use of written aids to passing degrees is...
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News in brief
Transatlantic co-operationPM keen to boost exchangesUK and US universities should co-operate "at a far higher level" than they do, the Prime Minister wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal. "I...
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The last punk
Tara Brabazon on Peter Saville’s remarkable staying power at the edge of fashion
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Surveillance and the rights of the individual
New guidance clarifies the use of closed-circuit television
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Top 20 institutions in chemistry based on citations per paper
Data from Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997-31 October 2007
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Praise for our Prospectus
Our Deputy Head of Prospectus Management, Angela Topping, was quick to respond to recent claims by the new Government-run student juries that some university prospectuses were "misleading" and "...
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A sunshine state of affairs
Florida's not all guns and gators, says Alan Ryan - it funds a liberal arts college