Exam certificate frauds exploit clearing dash

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University admissions staff have been warned that fake exam certificates are on the rise as desperate students from overseas try to gain entry to British universities. Increasingly sophisticated technology is being used to make it more difficult to distionguish between fake and real certificates.

College admissions, Diploma mills

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What were the lessons learnt from the case of Frank Ellis - the university lecturer suspended after claiming black people were intellectually inferior to whites?

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Higher education panellists at an event hosted by the University and College Union as part of Black History Month discussed lessons learnt from the case of Frank Ellis. Other topics discussed included academic freedom, racial prejudice and the power of the lecturer.

International Affairs, Racial Oppression, Analysis, Influence, Lecturers, Race discrimination

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Staff are silenced by fear of reprisals

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Four out of ten academics claim their freedom to express unpopular or controversial opinions is under attack, according to a poll by ICM for The Times Higher. Of the 502 respondents, 39 percent said their right to question received wisdom was in jeopardy.

Reports, Surveys, Academic freedom, Scholars, Teaching, Freedom of

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