Fears over high-tech research
Sir Alec Broers, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, this week urged MPs to recognise that high technology offers as many "exciting, challenging and important" fundamental research opportunities...
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Disabled dons fight sector's handicaps
Disabled academics are calling for an ombudsman to check higher education's "limitations" in dealing with disability and discrimination. Four disabled scholars have taken their cases to the House of...
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Plan for Pounds twenty million museums body
The government plans to launch a new national body for museums, libraries and archives next April. The Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) will have an annual budget of nearly Pounds 20...
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Charities scoop lottery cash
A host of charities across the UK has been awarded research grants worth Pounds 23.4 million by the National Lottery Charities Board. A total of 139 health and social research organisations will...
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Cardiff scraps semester rejig
Protest from staff and students has forced Cardiff University into a U-turn over its reformed semester system, after just one academic year. A campaign by the student newspaper, Gair Rhydd, and a...
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Why are there top dogs in global science?
In the run up to Unesco's World Conference on Science, Tom Phelan and Stephen Cole discuss their research on national variations in scientific productivity It is clear that a relatively small group...
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Agenda for a better world
Federico Mayor, Unesco's director general, sets the scene for next week's World Conference on Science in Budapest In seeking a new relationship between science and society, the United Nations...
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Legal wannabes urged to rethink
University careers advisers are warning law undergraduates they may never get the chance to work in the legal profession. But they say there is evidence that a large proportion of law graduates go on...
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England vote lets in Scots auditors
Scotland's professional body for accountants is tipped to sweep up more training work south of the border following a decision by its English counterpart against bringing in specialist examinations,...
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Bristol MBA moves north
Scotland has long attracted a disproportionate share of United Kingdom students, but now even the courses are moving north. Bristol University is transferring its MBA in international business to...
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World Watch
A report by a commission of European experts this week condemned the Institute of Indo-European Studies at the University of Lyons-III following an investigation ordered by the education ministry...
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World Watch
Michael Tendler, professor at the Alfven Laboratory of the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology and at the University of Montreal, will be presented with the Ernst Mach Prize and Medal of Honour in...
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World Watch
A court has found eight ear, nose and throat specialists from Italian medical universities guilty of irregularities when they were commission members in competitive exams for university posts in...
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Eyewitness
A degree of strained normality returned to the University of Belgrade this week as students took examinations postponed because of the war . For the Albanian Kosovar students dispersed around the...
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Can Pristina University rise from the ashes?
Aerial bombardment in Kosovo may be over, but the task of rebuilding academic life is a formidable one, says Minevere Ra****i There is a mood of considerable optimism among all of us involved with...