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University for Suffolk gains momentum
Hopes that Suffolk may get a university were raised this week as the University of East Anglia confirmed that it was examining plans for a new campus for 8,000 students in the county. UEA confirmed...
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RAE rankings comes under fire
The lack of assessment criteria in the research assessment exercise resulted in "propagandist promotional text" and "opinions stated as fact", according to a leading US academic. Eileen Gambrill,...
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Research review casts net wider
A review of research assessment has been launched in the wake of last year's RAE, writes Alison Goddard. Sir Gareth Roberts, president of Wolfson College, Oxford, will chair the steering group. It...
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QAA director signals shake-up
Universities may not have the evidence base needed under the new quality assurance regime to prove to the public that they are maintaining standards, according to the new director of review at the...
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Students choke on bite-sized learning
Huddersfield University is ditching 'fashionable' modularisation for traditional year-long courses. Is this the start of a semesterisation backlash? Alison Utley reports Three years into its search...
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Debt-averse steer clear of access courses
A new national strategy for access to higher education courses is urgently needed, researchers have concluded. Action should be taken to ensure that a higher proportion of students who successfully...
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Music schools attacked
University music schools and traditional conservatoires, the gatekeepers to the world of classical music, have been told to open their doors to black and Asian students from Britain's inner cities. A...
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Dundee's brightest get head start on campus
Four new arrivals at Dundee University are current pupils from Dundee High School, under a pioneering scheme to promote direct entry to the second year. Pupils taking the new Scottish Advanced Higher...
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Whistleblowers: 'Irregularities' continue to dog drink researcher
New evidence of financial and scientific irregularities by leading alcohol researcher Martin Plant has emerged following an investigation by The THES . Edinburgh University this week confirmed for...
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Analysis: Are white coats indelibly stained?
In the wake of the Bell Labs scandal, Steve Farrar asks just how prevalent research fraud really is One-third of the editors of the world's leading academic journals have encountered research fraud....
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In defence of the indefensible
Why Terrorism Works
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Life, love and a finite universe
How the Universe Got its Spots
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A city made of glass and other shattered dreams
Architecture and Design for the Family in Britain, 1900-70
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The foul smell of success
Opening Up