Biology in terminal condition
Biology is heading for a crisis as undergraduate applications continue to plummet, heads of biological science schools have been warned. Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology and...
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Edinburgh in revamp
Edinburgh University has appointed a businessman with expertise in managing change to run its finance, human resources and estates services as part of a radical American-style restructuring. Nigel...
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Union warns of harmful staff cut
Academics at Newcastle University have warned that a round of redundancies announced last week will damage the student experience. The university said redundancies were needed to achieve the next...
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Findings: Nose knows how you feel
Being good at understanding how others feel has usually been associated with lending a friendly ear. But research from an American neuropsychologist suggests lending a friendly nostril could be far...
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Findings: How to net more saves
It may come too late to help England's chances in the World Cup, but researchers at Greenwich University have isolated key visual clues to help goalkeepers improve their chances of saving a penalty,...
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Irish institute could close
Four departments at Queen's University, Belfast (pictured), are facing run-down or closure as a serious cash crisis develops. Its world-famous Institute of Irish Studies is one of the departments...
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Kisangani
Lectures at the University of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been suspended after fighting between rival factions of pro-Rwandan forces.
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Russia imposes law of the jungle
Russian universities will be forced to compete for students and funds under a new system of state orders for specifically qualified graduates being drawn up by the ministry of education, regional...
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Victory on loan payment dates
Stirling University students are claiming a victory on loan payments that could lead to students across the UK being able to choose when and how much they are paid. Stirling has had a two-semester...
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Members condemn unfunded growth
Phil Baty reports on Natfhe's angry mood at the union's Torquay conference Prime minister Tony Blair's commitment to raise university participation to 50 per cent is heading for humiliating failure...
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Minister in the lion's den inflames animal passions
Phil Baty reports on Natfhe's angry mood at the union's Torquay conference It all started rather well. As a junior education minister entering the lion's den of a trade union conference, Ivan Lewis...
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Union rounds on RAE debacle
Phil Baty reports on Natfhe's angry mood at the union's Torquay conference Ministers and funding chiefs are undermining the very nature of higher education by forcibly reducing some universities to a...
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Libidinous hero puts passion into history
Michael Winstanley takes an unexpected trip down memory lane and stumbles across the joy of discovery "Hiya." The student breezed into my room. It was 5.30pm on a Friday and I was winding up another...
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No way to treat valuable citizens
Part-time, untenured lecturers are the backbone of many US campuses, but at what price, asks Stephen Phillips. US campuses are in the throes of their most intense recruitment drive in a generation....
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Fast food is no substitute for an intellectual feast
Modularity is a sham and the weapon of choice in the casualisation of our profession, argues Bob Brecher. No one says Oxbridge should modularise its degrees, so if it's not good enough for them, why...