Bit of monkey business
Famous alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford - exposed this week for offering university places for cash - include Michael Heseltine, described by an unofficial guide as a "jungle fugitive raised by...
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Time to push the secret art of built-engineering
Hundreds of skilled engineers are needed to help us fashion a better world, says Richard Haryott. We live in a wonderful world and a wonderful age. All around us there are opportunities for people to...
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Blair attacks 'cosy elitism' of opponents of access targets
Tony Blair has attacked the "cosy elitism" of those who oppose the target of half of young people going into higher education. The prime minister, speaking at the Abraham Moss High School in...
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Price of Pembroke scandal is autonomy
Oxford University is to reduce the power of its colleges through a new code of practice for admissions after Pembroke College was caught offering places for cash. The Rev John Platt and Mary-Jane...
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Hunt promises a 'rejuvenated' AUT
Sally Hunt became general secretary of the Association of University Teachers this week and immediately warned the government that it cannot widen participation or deliver world-class research on the...
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Students win suit over poor teaching
A class of students has made legal history by winning a lawsuit against their college for poor teaching, even though some gained their qualifications, writes Phil Baty. Six students won their case...
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Joint bid to cut casualisation
Deals aimed at ending inequality and cutting casualisation in universities have become the first breakthroughs for the new national joint negotiating committee. The committee, which brings employers...
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Survey finds divide in law
Law schools in old universities overwhelmingly employ external examiners from old universities, making it difficult to ensure comparability of degrees across the sector, according to one of the first...
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Wales gets a 28 per cent boost in research cash
The success of Wales's universities in the research assessment exercise has been rewarded with a 28 per cent real-terms increase in research cash in the funding allocations for 2002-03. This will...
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£33m bid to reinvent Leicester's campus
When Leicester University vice-chancellor Bob Burgess interviewed architects bidding to design Leicester's biggest campus expansion since the 1960s, he asked them one key question: what is a...
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Rise in good degrees not just grade inflation
The proportion of students graduating with a first-class or upper-second degree has increased from a third to a half over the past 15 years. Are standards falling and grades being inflated or are...
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Analysis: Smarter way for a nation to learn
The Scots blueprint on lifelong learning gives people access to education at any stage in life, whatever their means. Olga Wojtas reports on a visionary plan. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and...
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Whistleblowers: Sacked lecturer makes history with challenge
A lecturer sacked by Surrey University after he complained to the vice-chancellor about harassment and mismanagement in his department is to go back to court in higher education's first known...
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Students arrested as Mugabe targets campuses
Zimbabwe's students are the target of a government attempt to clamp down on sectors of society that it sees as supporters of the political opposition, following Robert Mugabe's victory in this month'...
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William costs St Andrews £175,000
St Andrews University has suffered a £175,000 clawback in funding because of the "Wills effect" on student recruitment. The only other Scottish higher education institution to face a clawback,...