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Bullying in Universities: It exists
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New broom: the new man at Southampton outlines his plans
Thursday, 14 January 2010
He’s British but he cut his teeth in Sydney. The no-nonsense Professor Nutbeam is ruffling feathers at Southampton and doesn’t mind who he upsets.
Boom time for degrees in the new year
Thursday, 14 January 2010
A rise in courses beginning in January reflects an increase in demand by jobless workers
Leading Article: Southampton on the map
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Professor Don Nutbeam, the new man in charge at Southampton University, has had some useful experience, both in public health and in the first Blair government, not to mention his years helping to run Sydney University in Australia. He knows how to get things done.
Diary Of A Third Year: I resolve to drink more, avoid the library and shut the windows
Thursday, 7 January 2010
New Year resolutions aren't much use for university students. January is slap bang in the middle of the academic year. If you've left all good intentions until now, you've left it too late. But late is better than never, so here are my New Year resolutions for 2010.
Northumbria University heads south to get the London look
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Northumbria is opening a new base in the capital to establish a fashion presence in one of the world's style centres.
How a medieval philosophy don won her battle against Cambridge for failing to promote her
Thursday, 10 December 2009
For the past 17 years Gill Evans has been a thorn in Cambridge University's side, making the lives of successive vice chancellors a misery and forcing the ancient university to change its ways.
Michael Farthing: New student visa rules risk creating 'Fortress Britain'
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Education broadens horizons but if the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has its way with student visa regulations, those horizons are about to narrow significantly for students at home and abroad, with disastrous consequences for the higher education system in the UK.
Diary Of A Third Year: Plagiarists and idlers - beware the power of the internet
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Essays are the staple academic diet of most students. Their role in academic life hasn't changed in 50 years, but the way students write them certainly has.
Leading Article: Bursary message
Thursday, 3 December 2009
We have an incredibly complicated system of financial help for students since the introduction of top-up fees, as the OFFA survey demonstrates. Students should be using information about bursaries to make up their minds which university to attend, but they are not, according to the evidence. Higher education institutions will clearly have to make a much more determined effort to get their messages across. They should also look at the impact their arrangements are having on student choice.
Study reveals lack of awareness over university bursaries and scholarships
Thursday, 3 December 2009
It is amazing but true that one quarter of students and parents have not heard of the bursaries that each university has to provide to students in need. So, three years after the controversial top-up fees were introduced, along with a complicated paraphernalia of loans and scholarships, thousands of students don't have the information they need to choose the institution that is best for them.
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