Hefce to spend or return £20m
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England must spend £20 million on its newly established cadre of university centres to promote best teaching practice or risk having to return it to the...
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Charity urges shift in dropout policy to end stigma of failure
A wholesale change in the way that higher education treats students who drop out of courses was urged this week. Leaving a degree course early should not be seen as a failure for students, concludes...
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Repair bill may drive Swansea from home
Swansea University is considering the drastic step of relocating to the small neighbouring town of Llanelli after consultants revealed that its main campus needs £32 million of emergency maintenance...
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Plymouth under fire as campus faces closure
Academics and students have criticised Plymouth University's decision to close its Exmouth campus despite strong objections raised during a lengthy consultation. The university said it was expected...
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Leeds seeks biologists following faculty rejig
Leeds University has announced a recruitment drive after a complete overhaul of biological sciences and is advertising 14 new posts in The Times Higher this week. Leeds is the latest redbrick...
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Trio to sign up to exploit ideas
Three more universities are expected to sign deals with intellectual property firm IP2IPO to exploit their academics' ideas and inventions. IP2IPO creates spin-off companies at Oxford, Southampton,...
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Expert hails Victorian role models
Entrepreneurship will thrive in universities if academics return to a Victorian idea of higher education, a business professor has claimed, writes Jessica Shepherd. Allan Gibb, professor emeritus of...
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Entrepreneur offers chance to jump the queue
Bokani Tshidzu had been queuing for bread for two hours in the fierce Zimbabwean heat when she had a brainwave. Why not offer people the chance to pay to swap places with those in front of them in a...
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Hooked on bringing out bright ideas in people
The M40 between Oxford and London is full of expensive cars these days. "It's the university millionaires," observes my taxi driver, as a sleek BMW cuts in front of us. "Bleeding everywhere." This...
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Black academics strive to smash 'ivory ceiling'
While universities have seen a rise in the number of ethnic minority workers, new figures reveal stark variations in employment practices across the sector The number of senior academics from a black...
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'We actively encourage ethnic minority candidates to apply for senior posts'
Faye Doris is chair of the racial equality working group at Plymouth University. She is the academic lead for midwifery in the university's School of Health Professions, faculty of health and social...
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Salford staff claim bosses close ranks
Managers at Salford University are "complicit in acts of discrimination" and close ranks to protect each other against misconduct claims, staff have alleged in an equality audit commissioned by the...
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'Asian, white and black students ALL sit separately'
Pascale Allotey arrived at Brunel University from Melbourne last December to take up the newly created post of professor of race and diversity. Professor Allotey is a medical anthropologist and...
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Financial literacy is the key to raising our game
The link between accountability and accounting is crucial to institutions' good governance, says Nigel Savage Much has been written in recent years about the accountability burden in the private and...
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Jackie Sheehan: cheers, tears and fears on the home front
WAR, WOMEN AND SURVIVAL Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University, until December 15 As the average cost of a wedding in Britain today rises to a reported Pounds 15,000, it is...