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Queen's Belfast called to account The Northern Ireland Assembly’s committee for employment and learning is seeking an immediate briefing on the financial situation at Queen’s University, Belfast,...
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Bosses demand class act
Many graduates from "non-traditional" backgrounds lack the self confidence and self-presentation skills they need to secure a well-paid job when they leave university, researchers have found. They...
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Contract culture ended at RGU
Robert Gordon University is giving all contract researchers job security. It is the first UK higher education institution to do so. The deal has been struck through a partnership agreement between...
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Ethnic staff suffer 12% pay gap
Ethnic minority lecturers are paid 12 per cent less than their white counterparts, the Association of University Teachers said today. On the deadline for universities to produce legally binding plans...
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Scots not ready for race laws, inspector says
Scotland's further education colleges are ill-prepared to meet the demands of new race relations legislation, an HM inspector has warned, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain MacRobert said the recent...
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Colleges call for role in reviews
Further education heads have called for funding to allow more college lecturers to join quality review teams assessing higher education in colleges. The extra money is needed to allow FE staff to be...
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Ryan quits as 'ill-paid' Oxford don
One of Oxford University's most senior academics confirmed his departure to join one of America's top institutions this week, arguing that "no rational person" would work in British higher education...
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Analysis: UK outspins rivals in US
A revolution in attitudes to science and its funding has led to a new era of growth in entrepreneurial zeal in British universities. Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis report Two years ago, John...
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Whistleblowers: Staffs runs into trouble over research ethics
When The THES reported that Staffordshire University had been forced to issue tough new rules on research ethics, after evidence emerged that research had been going ahead without proper scrutiny or...
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Complaints cut in half by early action
Nottingham Trent University has cut its student complaints by 50 per cent with a project designed to nip problems in the bud. As students become fee-paying customers, universities fear litigation....
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Custom course to plug brain drain
Loughborough University has been chosen to pioneer a course aimed at plugging the graduate brain drain in the East Midlands. The region traditionally loses two-thirds of those who study there. It...
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Findings: Birds confound founder theory
New species emerge through gradual evolution and not through sudden jumps, according to a new study of sea birds, writes Steve Farrar. Computer modelling and analysis of DNA from populations of...
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Findings: Egyptians kept building simple
The golden section was first mentioned by Euclid about 300 BC. Approximately the ratio of 8:5, this number is believed to have particular aesthetic balance and beauty. It is commonly used to explain...
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Prize idea comes out of TA trip to Kosovo
The leader of an entrepreneurial student team that has scooped £10,000 in a national business plan competition developed his award-winning idea while serving with the Territorial Army in Kosovo....
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Europe aims for top at Wem
Europeans were hustling at the World Education Market in Lisbon last week hoping to capture a large slice of the emerging e-learning business. They were on home ground for the first time since Wem, a...