Commonwealth plan aims to improve student mobility
Commonwealth students could soon find it easier to transfer their studies to other member states if a Commonwealth Secretariat initiative proves successful. The secretariat wants to see a more...
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Leicester to host business 'Utopia'
Many business schools are sacrificing academic independence as they pursue research agendas driven by private industry, according to Gibson Burrell, new head of the University of Leicester's...
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Graduate scheme is given consent
Graduate apprenticeships have finally received a kite mark from the University Vocational Awards Council and sector skills councils, more than two years after the idea was first mooted. The...
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Numerical skills are key for modern nurses
Nurses need better mathematical skills if they are to fulfil roles in a modern health service, a report from the Learning and Teaching Support Network says. Universities should develop a framework...
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Campus closes as lecturers meet Mugabe's indifference
The campus of the University of Zimbabwe is eerily quiet. It is mid-term, but there are no students and very few staff. Work has all but ground to a halt, the result of a lecturers' pay strike that...
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Inquiry ordered after heart study arrested
An inquiry has started into possible violations of academic freedom by a Canadian teaching hospital after a Halifax doctor had her research interrupted for five months. The Canadian Association of...
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Shekels saved on loo roll
Behind the glitter of Tel Aviv University's new buildings lies an annual deficit of 209 million shekels (£ million) and an expected deficit in next year's budget of about 250 million shekels....
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Swedish pull aid to Africans after corruption allegations
Higher education reforms in Mozambique have suffered a severe blow after Sweden suspended financial assistance to Eduardo Mondlane University because of corruption. There are fears that other key...
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Europe falls for Casablanca business venture
Four institutions from both sides of the Mediterranean are joining forces to launch a new business school in Morocco. The Euro-Mediterranean Business School will begin providing short courses for...
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Anti-terror measures curb US research
University researchers are being frustrated by restrictions prompted by the US's war on terrorism that set limits on how they conduct their work - and who is allowed access to it. One of the issues...
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Beware the red herring in pursuit of excellence
The government's drive for critical mass in research overlooks many subtleties of innovation, argues Paul Wellings Government plans to link research quality and critical mass need to be tested with...
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King's College may drop chemistry
King's College London admitted this week that its chemistry department is considered unsustainable and may face closure. The news comes a week after King's chemistry professor Susan Gibson was named...
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Students angry at forced OU upgrade
The Open University has had to upgrade some of its degree courses after the Quality Assurance Agency said that they lacked enough higher-level study, forcing more than 1,000 students to change their...
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Ucas brings in professional training for admissions staff
Admissions staff will be given professional training under a scheme announced this week by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, writes Alison Goddard. The scheme - to be launched on July...
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Not so secret story
Next week sees the launch of the latest book by astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees. Secrecy surrounds the contents of Our Final Century?, but The Diary can divulge what Fortune magazine reported Sir...