US college aims for UK overhaul
An American small college has set out to become the first UK-style business university and has hired a leading academic from the London School of Economics to help. Bentley College, which has fewer...
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In the news: Fellows of the Royal Society
The Royal Society this week announced the following fellows: Allan Bradley , director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge; Robin Carrell , professor of haematology at the University of...
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Cow pats to help crisis
A student is turning cow pats into life-size ceramics to increase awareness of the impact of foot-and-mouth disease and to help farmers hit by the crisis. Gillian Bathe is a former crofter who is now...
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Bin Laden of cancer
This week's prize for the most strained analogy goes to the University of Warwick for its treatise entitled "Scientists identify the 'Bin Laden' of cancer-causing faulty proteins". It states: "...
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Restore a pizza the wall
A pizza company that has helped to save countless crumbling buildings in Venice is to support a threatened medieval wall at St Andrews University. The Veneziana Fund, which is the charitable arm of...
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No sight of any insight
All eyes are on the Universities UK website where a dazzling new revelation is expected imminently. The policy analysis page boasts: "Insights are written for anyone with prior knowledge of, or an...
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Pakes loses election
As reported earlier, Andrew Pakes, press officer for the Association of University Teachers, stood as a councillor for the Labour Party in the elections held earlier this month. Alas he did not win,...
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Picturing Afghanistan
Good luck to Paul Seawright, director of the Centre for Photographic Research at the University of Wales College, Newport, who is en route to Afghanistan as a war artist. Dr Seawright plans to...
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Time to educate the UK about sustainability
The world summit in August should put sustainability higher up the education sector's agenda, says Sara Parkin. More than a year ago, education was passed over as a theme for August's World Summit on...
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Nerc's grant cut is no way for a council to behave
Many organisations, including funding councils, charities and government departments, put significant sums into research. But one set of funders, the research councils, have responsibilities that run...
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Teach new generation to make degrees count
Does going to university enhance your earning power? Or are people who are likely to be big earners also likely to go to college? The truth is somewhere in between, but this week's report from the...
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Boycott the behemoth
The RAE wastes resources, stifles innovation and undermines important research, argues Denis Noble. At the height of the public row over science funding in the 1980s, Max Perutz, the man responsible...
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Equal pay is responsibility of all
HE must overhaul its archaic pay structures before it can combat pay discrimination, writes Jocelyn Prudence. Much has been made of the gender pay gap in higher education and the extent to which job...
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Why I... believe that all biology degree study should include a module in bioethics
John Bryant. Professor in the school of biological sciences University of Exeter. "You're evil," the heckler shouted. "You're evil. You are the anti-ChristI" What had I done to merit this tirade?...
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Historian fears for academic freedom in Israel
An Israeli historian who has supported the call for an academic boycott of his country believes he may be fired by the University of Haifa. Ilan Pappe said Haifa's dean of humanities had called for...