G8 urged to back alliances
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports G8 leaders are being challenged this week to revitalise African higher education via a ten-year programme drawn up by...
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Modern Scots wisdom for v-cs
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports Forty minutes drive from Gleneagles is Abertay Dundee University, which has just finished hosting a five-day...
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Hi-tech weapon in Aids battle
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports The first comprehensive guide on Aids awareness in South Africa has emerged from a ten-year partnership between four...
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Rural network blossoms
UK-Africa collaboration is breathing life into the continent. Olga Wojtas reports The University of Fort Hare, the Open University and the Egyptian Ministry of Education have teamed up to bridge the...
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Flagship institute set to ask for more cash
Chancellor Gordon Brown's flagship project linking Cambridge University with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will have to ask the Government for more cash, despite previous assurances that...
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Budding stars get full picture
Higher education landed a starring role in the British film industry this week with the launch of a network of academies to train everyone from set builders to movie moguls. Skillset, the sector...
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Winchester success boosts bids for university status
Four higher education colleges are on the home straight to gaining university status following news that University College Winchester has succeeded in its bid to become the University of Winchester...
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Anglo-Saxon roll lists every king and Bugga
From Abarhilda to Zacharias, every recorded Anglo-Saxon - and every fact recorded about them at the time - gets a mention on a new research database that promises to shed more light on England in the...
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Legal threat over course 'chaos'
Salford University faces the threat of legal action from up to 139 senior public-sector professionals over its handling of their masters degree courses. Professionals, including National Health...
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Letting learners mark the teachers
Olga Wojtas reports on Scotland's trailblazing quality-assurance system It is a concept that might send a chill down the spines of some lecturers: the student quality inspector. But this, in the land...
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What to do when it's the lecturer who's missing classes
"How would you deal with a lecturer who keeps missing classes and does not seem to know much about his subject?" the student representatives at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen were asked. Tackle...
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V-cs fight to keep autonomy
More than 70,000 foreign students are enrolled in offshore programmes run by Australian universities, but vice-chancellors are resisting federal government demands for tighter control of their...
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Nigeria gets tough on overseas providers
Nigeria's National University Commission has declared all foreign university satellite campuses illegal pending approval of guidelines governing their operation. The guidelines will require the...
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...I'm too busy multitasking
A red-faced Maria Misrajust can't seem to finish her new book. And after racking her brain for a reason, she concludes... Earlier this month, the Sam Johnson prize for non-fiction, for which I was a...
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Develop a career - not a clone
As a mentor, don't look for adoration or for someone to follow in your footsteps, says Harriet Swain. You need to guide, support and listen to your student to help them find their own way in academe...