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Chinese authorities have released Chen Lantao, a former university researcher and marine biologist, who was serving an 18-year prison sentence for denouncing the military assault on Tiananmen...
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Unpaid slog sustains research
Unpaid overtime is sustaining higher education, according to early results from the Treasury-driven transparency review of spending in British universities and colleges. Institutions that have...
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DTI gives part-time workers equal rights
Ministers have expanded rules on part-time workers' rights to include the 100,000 part-time lecturers employed by agencies. The Department of Trade and Industry published Part-time Workers'...
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Genome project enters the final stage
Scientists involved in the international Human Genome Project have entered the final phase of their project to decode the genetic book of life. The experts based at 16 centres worldwide are close to...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES. Lucy Aitkens argued that employers should recruit Oxbridge graduates. I contest the argument that Oxbridge graduates are "the best" for employers to recruit. Employers only...
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Don's diary
Monday Most of our fellow passengers on the Glasgow to Amsterdam flight are heading for Camp Zeist and the trial of the Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing. For the six of us from the University...
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Students appeal to save Malaysian hall
The Malaysian government will decide this month on the fate of Malaysia Hall in Bryanston Square, London, when the leasehold expires. It is the meeting and transit point for Malaysian students...
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Puttnam urges HE and industry cooperation
(Photograph) - Universities and industry need to work closer together to ensure that the country's brightest talent does not move abroad, according to Lord Puttnam, chairman of Enigma Productions and...
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Ulster's course aims to boost business
Ulster University is introducing an integral course in entrepreneurship that it hopes will boost the number of small and medium-sized businesses in the province. From September, students taking...
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Strike over cuts to holiday called off
Lecturers at Northumbria University have called off their threat of industrial action after university management agreed to reinstate their Easter vacation period to three weeks from two. Members of...
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Dundee bids to attract non-Scots students
Dundee University is marketing three-year honours degrees in its new prospectus in a bid to combat a downturn in British entrants from outside Scotland, and to attract high-flying Scottish pupils who...
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Funding chiefs look at employability indicator
Funding chiefs - under pressure from education secretary David Blunkett to produce an indicator of graduate employability - are leaning towards a complex definition of it. "To have any validity,...
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Overhaul of support scheme considered
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is consulting on an overhaul of Scotland's unique postgraduate student allowances scheme to make funds available to more...
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Newcastle arrives home-from-home
Six students from Newcastle University have completed a 50,000km overland expedition to Newcastle, Australia. The Newcastle2Newcastle group started its journey last April and travelled to Australia...
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Eye witness
Kamisese Mara, Fiji's president, has sought an injunction to stop the sale of a biography of Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, leader of the 1987 military coups. In Rabuka of Fiji, Rabuka, a former...