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BBC News Online 31st October 2005
Some academics at a university are saying they can feel pressurised into passing poor quality work in order to meet business targets.The Times (p22) 31st October 2005
Rob Allen, Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's, suggests in his letter to The Times some ways to reduce the prison population in the UK.The Times (p20) 31st October 2005
Plans to end almost 900 years of self-government at Oxford University have won support from a leading college head.Croationa Television 30th October 2005
Dr Peter Neumann, Director of the Centre of Defence Studies, has been interviewed by Croatian Television and BBC World about the anti-terror legislation and the Danish Broadcasting Company about the background of the London bombers He ahs also discussed on FOX developments in the fight against terrorism generally.Sunday Times (p7) 30th October 2005
A university whistleblower has secretly filmed meetings with senior academics at which she was put under pressure to pass first-year students whom she believed should have been thrown off their degree courses.Sky News 30th October 2005
The new edition of the Collins English Dictionary has listed some 1,500 new words which have come into usage in the last few years. Tony Thorne, Director of Language Centre, talked about the spate of slang dictionaries being published this year.Daily Telegraph (p1) 28th October 2005
The Government's policy of urging an ever-increasing number of young people into university - a record 400,000 this year - is failing in significant respects as graduates flood the job market, research published by the Department for Education shows.Guardian (p4) 28th October 2005
The Guardian reveals two main findings to this survey: that 4 million people admit taking class A substances and that prison officers are responsible for smuggling into jails. Further Home Office research by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at King's shows that heroin, cannabis, non-prescribed medication, and crack cocaine were all in circulation at the six prisons studied.Times Higher (p13) 28th October 2005
In her montly column, Alison Wolf, King's Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, says that architects, in thinking of themselves as artists, too often seem to overlook the role people play in their grand designs.Times Higher (p5) 28th October 2005
Liverpool University is close to finalising a deal to build the last foreign campus in China for the forseeable future.Times Higher (p4) 28th October 2005
Universities are unlikely to want to get 'deeply involved' in running schools, the Government was warned this week as it unveiled education reform plans.Times Higher (p2) 28th October 2005
The Medical Research Council this week sealed one of the world's biggest-ever intellectual property deals, bringing British research out of the heavy shadow cast by the US.Times Higher (p1) 28th October 2005
The Times Higher Education Supplement has produced its world rankings for the second year running. In their table the College is ninth in terms of UK universities, 23rd in Europe and globally ranked joint 73rd: a rise of 23 places on last year.Independent (Educ Supp p11) 27th October 2005
With no university, it had to watch its ablest students go elsewhere. But that's no longer the case for Cornwall says article.Independent (Educ supp p8) 27th October 2005
Academics may be trained to criticise, but that doesn't excuse rudeness. Article investigates one man's crackdown on bullying.Financial Times 26th October 2005
The Wellcome Trust has donated £8m to Dundee University for a pioneering initiative to conduct drug development work normally conducted by pharmaceutical companies.Guardian Online 26th October 2005
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) is today lobbying MPs as the terror bill gets its second reading in the House of Commons, warning that the legislation will restrict academic freedom and create "a culture of suspicion" on campus.Woman's Hour, Radio 4 26th October 2005
By 2007 all pregnant women should be offered access to pre-natal screening at 11 to 13 weeks. Earlier screening for foetal anomalies is regarded by many as a positive move, but does raise ethical concerns.Guardian Online 26th October 2005
Does the university need to be reinvented? Clark Kerr, the man who introduced free university tuition in California, once pointed out that of all social institutions, the university is among the oldest of our continuous organisations. So you'd be more likely to succeed if you innovated within it, rather than try to reinvent it completely.The Guardian (Educ Supp p12) 25th October 2005
New research is looking at the impact of a student's suicide on a university. A research project, Response and Prevention in Student Suicide, is being carried out by two professors of social work, one being Jill Manthorpe of King's.