Student poll puts staff under pressure

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Vice-chancellors at universities in the UK have been urged to examine the performance of their departments as a result of the first national survey of student satisfaction, which revealed that many of the country's "unfashionable" universities were rated by their undergraduates as amongst the best. Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which, in cooperation with the National Union of Students, conducted the survey, stated that older, supposedly more popular universities should try and identify why they finished lower down on student satisfaction.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Students, College, Universities and colleges, Surveys, College students

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Adapt to survive the next chapter

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An analysis of the role of university libraries and how they balance the demands of serving both students, who are now regarded as paying customers, and academics, who use libraries to do some of the research necessary for the research assessment exercise. Libraries at universities in the UK are also being expected to play a greater role in recruiting new students, breaking down social barriers and showing students that libraries are not intimidating places.

Libraries, Libraries and Archives, Academic Libraries, Analysis, University and college libraries

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We met, talked and then whoosh!

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An overview of the services provided by SciTalk, a networking website that helps introduce novelists, playwrights and poets to scientists so that they can more accurately portray the science of the work they are producing. Particular attention is paid to a meeting between novelist Clare George and neuroscientist Jonathan Cole.

Authors, Writers, Works, George, Clare, Cole, Jonathan

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