Loan funds a shot at film fame
In what may prove to be the best investment of his life, Edward Jeffreys decided to spend his student loan on making a film about fate rather than spending it on food, books and beer. Now the Napier...
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Healthy pay fires overseas interest
A report on recruitment says the UK fares well in the global pay league, which makes it attractive to foreign academics, but job satisfaction in universities is low. Paul Hill surveys the figures UK...
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Blair digs deep to fund India link
Collaboration with counterparts abroad is laying foundations for future enterprise The Government looks set to create a research fund to encourage collaboration between academics in the UK and India...
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Mexico looks to UK to profit from spin-offs
Mexican education bosses are so impressed by UK universities' success at exploiting research that they want to apply British knowhow to some of their own scientific projects. Jaime Parada Avila,...
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Parties vie for student vote
New Zealand's Labour Government has put student debt at the centre of its campaign for re-election in September. It promises to abolish interest charges on loans for tertiary fees, as well as on...
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Fear over access to Arab campus
As Israel prepares to disengage from Gaza, lecturers at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem - the only Arab university in the city - fear increased restrictions. Al-Quds has buildings in the old city and...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"The QAA is seeking senior assessors to scrutinise applications from institutions wishing to become universities. 'Knowledge or experience is not essential.'" - The Times Higher , August 5 So, may we...
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Alan Ryan
There is nothing like two Dames and a Knight to cut bureaucracy and help universities to run a bit more efficiently When he was president of Princeton University, Bill Bowen had a simple recipe for...
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Leader: Useful tonics and bitter pills
There is little to fault in the diagnosis, but the proposed remedies may not all benefit the patient. Asked by the Government to recommend ways of increasing the recruitment of academics and...
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Leader: Contented postgrads
There was a time not too long ago when introductory PhD training could amount to giving a new research student a pile of academic papers and an empty office and telling them to come back in three...
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Don't let terror stifle expression 1
An important function of universities is to "sustain a culture that demands disciplined thinking, encourages curiosity, challenges existing ideas and generates new ones", according to the Dearing...
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Don't let terror stifle expression 2
We cannot hope to combat terrorism without understanding its underlying nature, and Bill Durodie ("Terror in the first person", Review, August 5) is quite wrong to claim that we have now entered an...
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Truth is our mission
Bob Brecher asks where academics' loyalties lie (Working Knowledge, August 5). Their key loyalty should be to their side of the contract they have with society, which entitles them to the trust,...
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RAE sidelines youth
Dave Toke's claim ("RAE rules may lead to cull of older staff", August 5) that the 2008 research assessment exercise threatens older researchers rests on two assumptions. First, that he is no better...
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Don't bet on it
Veronica King of the National Union of Students stated in the report about online poker that it's easy to see how students may be tempted to play because student debt is so high ("St Hilda's is flush...