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28 mars 2014

More than 26,000 students 'dropping out of university'

By Graeme Paton. Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that 6.7 per cent of students dropped out of university after a year in 2011/12, rising to almost one-in-five at one institution. More than 26,000 students dropped out of university last year amid continuing concerns that school leavers are being pushed into taking inappropriate degree courses. Read more...

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28 mars 2014

'Girls in science? Give pupils real choice in education'

By Nigel Carrington. The UK is a leader in science, but our even greater success story is creativity – we shouldn't rush to prioritise one subject over another, says Nigel Carrington. The economy needs more young people to study science, technology, engineering and maths, according to the CBI, and girls in particular should be steered away from “feminine” arts subjects. Read more...

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28 mars 2014

Universities 'given go ahead to favour state school pupils'

By Graeme Paton. Research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England finds that state school pupils perform better at university than privately-educated peers with the same A-level results, prompting fresh calls for a reform of the admissions system. Read more...

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28 mars 2014

The universities with the most and least state school students

By Graeme Paton. More places at British universities were awarded to applicants from state schools last year, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, but some elite institutions such as Oxford still admitted at least four-in-10 students from private schools. Record numbers of university places were awarded to applicants from state schools year following a Government drive to create a more socially balanced student body. Read more...

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28 mars 2014

Funding agencies risk driving away international scholars

By David Kent. Scientific research extends well beyond borders and its internationalization has been a major boon for collaboration and advancement. Last month, Switzerland made news by putting a cap on immigrant labour that would prevent mobility into their scientific research environment. This met with much criticism and resulted in the EU banning Swiss applications to its Horizon 2020 grant applications (a good account of the situation appeared in the Huffington Post earlier this week). More...

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28 mars 2014

Teaching “Productivity”

By Melonie Fullick. Recently the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) released a report (PDF) on a study “designed to measure the teaching loads of faculty members in the Ontario university system and the relationship of this variable to others, such as research output and salary.” The study, comprising 10 of Ontario’s 20 publicly funded universities, looked at faculty teaching in three disciplines (economics, chemistry and philosophy). Read more...

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28 mars 2014

In praise of university administration

By University Affairs. This is a guest post from Christoper Buddle. Check out his blog, Arthropod Ecology.
In academia, professors are sometimes offered interesting opportunities to take administrative appointments, and we have the chance to say “no” if the fit or timing isn’t good. Terry McGlynn recently wrote about declining an opportunity for such an appointment, and I know of other (close) colleagues who have recently turned down similar positions. Read more...

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28 mars 2014

Students tackle the ‘cult of busy’

By Cassandra Hendry. New website explores society’s obsession with busyness. A new website focusing on society’s obsession with busyness has been launched by a group of Canadian students. The site attempts to answer the question, what are you busy for?
The website, Cult of Busy, was created by the 2013 cohort of 3M National Student Fellows. More...

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28 mars 2014

Video-based science journal makes its mark, by JoVE!

By Natalie Samson. Online journal’s vision of scientific publishing is as much YouTube as test tube.
A U.S.-based video journal is looking to overthrow text as the definitive medium for scientific publishing in the 21st century. Moshe Pritsker, co-founder and CEO of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), said text-based articles fall short as a vehicle for efficiently communicating research protocols between scientists. More...

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28 mars 2014

Gen Y - Don’t apologize for your liberal arts degree

By Brad Ferguson. You’re graduating from a liberal arts program – now what? Many graduates have neat trajectories laid out before them: Medical students become doctors, engineering students become engineers, education students become teachers, and business students become business owners.
But what about our liberal arts graduates? What do they become? More...

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