Heat is on for enterprise
A dozen university teams are still in the running to host the world-class centres of enterprise that the government has promised, writes Julia Hinde. Twenty-eight universities applied to the Science...
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Lucky 37 get cash injection from JIF
A vaccine research centre at Oxford University, a research ship that monitors the shallow ocean and a southern-hemisphere telescope aimed at deepest space have won funding in the first round of...
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RAE ponders the size effect
The question of whether internationally excellent work can only be done in large departments will stay on the long-term agenda for the research assessment exercise. Assessment panels will be asked...
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Making education attractive to all
The University of Sunderland does not normally top league tables. In March, however, it led the list of universities that excel at recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to a...
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Museums warned to check for looted art
The Museums and Galleries Commission this week issued guidance to museums on researching their collections for works of art stolen during the Nazi Holocaust and second world war. The advice is aimed...
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Silicon Fen tests limits on growth
The growth of higher education and high-technology industry around Cambridge could grind to a halt because of a policy clash. Presenting scenarios for the region's development over the next 50 years...
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Understanding understanding
The Office of Science and Technology is to do a review of public understanding of science activities. Sir Robert May, government chief scientist, told the House of Lords' science and technology...
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Staff vote for v-c to resign
Staff have voted overwhelmingly for the immediate resignation of Lincolnshire and Humberside vice-chancellor Roger King, claiming "gross mismanagement". Strike action is threatened at the troubled...
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OU fees paid for claimants
Open University courses will be free to part-time students on benefits from next year, lifelong learning minister George Mudie said yesterday. Mr Mudie outlined details of the scheme, first announced...
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How the groups are shifting
Finding new ways to measure success Oxford Brookes, Northumbria and West of England universities are the new universities now becoming most like the older "redbrick" universities, according to an...
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Finding new ways to measure success
Universities are still described as 'old' and 'new'. But these labels do not do justice to a diverse and rapidly changing sector. Alan Thomson reports A new pecking order is emerging in English...
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Who is widening participation and who is concentrating on research
Finding new ways to measure success This graph is by Peter Knight, vice-chancellor of the University of Central England. He separates universities into three distinct groups that highlight the...
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On the move
Struther Arnott, 64, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews for 14 years, is to retire on or shortly after St Andrew's Day (November 30). His announcement was a surprise...
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Glittering prizes
Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, will receive an honorary doctorate of laws from Queen's University, Belfast in December. The university is also to award honorary law degrees in...
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Don's Diary
Monday Marathon 9am-3pm haematology class. By 11am more than 80 have turned up - maybe blood cells aren't so bad after all. Shake off last student by 3.30pm and retreat to office. Twenty-minute...