Degree of desperation
The Diary would like to congratulate St Jude's University College, which has come a long way in recent times. Casting an eye over the institution's website, the extent of the college's former...
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Getting tough on toffs
Two suggestions for the name of the access regulator - an independent body that will assess universities' performance in widening participation, announced by Labour this week - have crossed our desk...
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Germaine has Popstar rival
Feminist icon Germaine Greer is again in the frame for the rectorship of a Scottish university. Beaten in the St Andrews University rectorial by former Liberal MP Sir Clement Freud, she seems likely...
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Don's diary: raw face of forced migration in Ethiopia
Monday The sign over the (very imposing) main university entrance reads: "Get an Addis Ababa University Degree, not an HIV/Aids certificate". In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, Aids is...
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Why I...believe there must not be any 'no-go' areas for research
Media speculation about Pete Townshend's encounter with child pornography centred on the question: Was he really doing research into the issue or was he just another sick punter? I have always found...
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Access tsar to penalise elites
Key points Universities must draw up an access agreement to improve access for disadvantaged students before they are able to increase tuition fees This agreement will be supervised by an access...
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Liverpool: balancing local need
Undergraduates 16,610 Postgraduates 5,840 Proportion from low social classes 21% Hefce teaching income £51m Hefce research income £22m Income from Hefce 36% Russell Group member Liverpool University...
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FE urged to work with HE
Key points Expansion of vocational degrees Streamlining of accountability burden Some further education colleges to receive direct funding from Hefce Further education colleges and universities are...
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The researcher: 'I was naive'
Les Jervis, associate dean of science at Plymouth University, set out to be a research scientist, but teaching and administration came to overshadow his research. Dr Jervis opposes any policy that...
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Union executive accused of racism
The National Union of Students executive has been accused of racism by its black students committee after an African student was barred from an executive meeting. The black students committee has...
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Scottish access host
Scotland's higher education institutions have won an extra £10 million from the government to improve access for students with disabilities. And the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Further...
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Correction: Market gamble, public payoff
Last week's soapbox piece by Mike Emmerich, Gerry Stoker and Dan Corry should have read: 'So to avoid further disadvantaging poorer students, the greater the emphasis on top-up fees, the larger and...
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Why didn't we say no?
Bite-sized learning is upon us, and academics must accept some of the blame, says Tom Hickey It is time for educators to end their complicity in the degradation of the academic process in the UK....
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Don't ignore mature majority
Mature students are patronised by colleges, dismissed by Hodge and passed over by the NUS, says Alan Coleman The government's plans for student funding and widening participation appear to have...
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Research rewards at risk
Universities across Europe fear that a new directive from the European Union could stop them exploiting their intellectual property, seriously undermining research, innovation and funding....