Wellcome to help fund life sciences
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Wellcome Trust are planning to join forces to help fund laboratory equipment for health and life science researchers. The collaboration is...
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Academic pay lagging behind public and private sectors
Only the pay of academic-related and library staff in old universities holds up when measured against comparable jobs in the public and private sectors, according to the Hay Management Consultants'...
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NTU faces millennium time bomb
Nottingham Trent University has set aside Pounds 500,000 from next year's budget to deal with the so-called millennium muddle. Prophets of doom have been forecasting catastrophe ever since it was...
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AUT study fuels review body calls
THE erosion of academic pay levels has been highlighted in a new study for the Association of University Teachers by one of the United Kingdom's leading economists. Work by Chris Trinder, chief...
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Physicists' salaries
* Physicists' salaries have risen by an average of 15 per cent over the past two years, according to a survey published by the Institute of Physics, writes Kam Patel. The average annual salary for 90...
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Shallow waters of the mid-Indian ocean ridge
Julia Hinde marks World Oceans' Day with a trawl of marine research * The relatively shallow waters of the mid-Indian ocean ridge, which runs from Mauritius on the Tropic of Capricorn to the...
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Public spending warning on monetary union
BRITISH public spending may have to be reduced by about 10 per cent to cushion against the possible effects of European monetary union, according one of the authors of The Ostrich and the Emu, a new...
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Surrey goes into orbit with microsatellite
SPACECRAFT engineers at Surrey University have been awarded a Pounds 3.3 million contract by the United States Air Force to design and build a small experimental satellite. Called PICOSat, the 65-...
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Imperial puts medical records on-line
MEDICAL records could soon be fully digitised and include interactive multimedia features thanks to new work from Imperial College, London. A team led by Richard Kitney, director of the centre for...
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'Chicken' weeds out anti-social behaviour
A SIMPLE game of "chicken" has led two Leicester University psychologists to conclude that the "prison works" anti-crime policy is futile. Andrew Colman and Clare Wilson studied behaviour patterns of...
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Fruit flies may offer human DNA clues
DUNDEE University is coordinating a Pounds 2 million pan-European project which hopes to cast light on human genetic make-up by examining the DNA of the fruit fly. David Glover of the department of...
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Airline pilots' team work takes off
THE CIVIL Aviation Authority is funding Aberdeen University research into how airline pilots behave in a team. All UK airline pilots are now being trained to improve the skills needed to work...
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Quality plan for global value
A national quality assurance system to control degree standards at South African universities and technikons is to be set up by the government. It would give all tertiary qualifications in South...
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Higher education quality control
* South Africans brainstormed ideas about higher education quality control with 165 experts from 25 countries at the biannual conference of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in...
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Drivers prove that time is money
DRIVERS are twice as likely to drive dangerously if they are paying for time spent on the road, according to research from Leeds University. A study using a driving simulator showed that drivers were...