Access undermined by 'unfair' system
The government's drive to widen access to higher education through the college sector is being undermined by an "unfair" quality-assurance system, the Association of Colleges has warned, writes Tony...
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Private degree market stifled
Governments should avoid over-regulating the "inexorable rise" of private, profit-making higher education businesses, according to the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Roger King, the first...
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Performers must face music and write
Arts and humanities research chiefs have infuriated musicians with a declaration that their performances cannot be classified as research. In a paper that seeks to draw a line under the acrimonious...
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'Dreary' Dundee is the place to be
Dundee University is the best UK scientific institution to work in, according to the results of an international survey of life scientists. A survey of several thousand researchers by the journal The...
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Academics arrested in Zimbabwe protests
John Makumbe, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe and head of the local branch of Transparency International, has been arrested just weeks after warning that civil society was to...
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Coke ban still fizzing in Dublin
Students at University College Dublin have voted to keep a ban on the sale of Coca-Cola products in student union outlets on campus. A referendum has resulted in 59 per cent of students voting in...
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Strikes scupper reforms
Confusion over the future of plans to give France's universities more autonomy to is deepening as students continue to mount protests. After denying reports last Friday that President Jacques Chirac...
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Top Russian rector forced out
The rector of one of Russia's top universities has resigned after falling victim to the political fall-out following the arrest of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Leonid Nevzlin, who owns 8 per cent...
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EU votes on stem cells fail to solve problem
The European Parliament has moved closer to agreement on a common policy on the use of funds to finance experiments on human stem cells - but their proposals are likely to be ignored. Members of the...
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Moscow fire kilss 36 foreign students
Moscow fire and police officials were this week continuing their investigation into the deaths of 36 foreign students after a blaze at the Peoples' Friendship University. Vietnamese, Chinese, African...
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US insularity is a 'liability'
Americans' lack of knowledge about the world is a "national liability" in the war on terrorism, according to an association of US foreign-study directors. The Association of International Educators...
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Governance 'needs fusion'
Governance of higher education in the 21st century needs to fuse academic mission with executive capacity, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. A study of trends in...
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Student aims to catch cheats
A Canadian masters student aims to catch students in the act of plagiarism in an effort to understand why some copy directly from sources such as the internet. Melissa McGonnell is compiling a study...
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Think you belong on the world stage? Think again
Very few UK universities that describe themselves as 'global' institutions merit the term, argues Eric Thomas Thousands of universities worldwide have built up substantial and diverse international...
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Gary Day
The Tories have resurrected Michael Howard, but for Blairites the past, like the present, is dark and forbidding You know you're nearly in Leicester when the train slows by the cemetery on the...