Get training on track, railways told
Train operating companies and rail service providers such as Railtrack must improve their "pitiful" staff training record, the government has said. Malcolm Wicks, the lifelong learning minister, has...
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Atlantic alliance appoints a chief
A university network that once considered bidding to run the e-university has appointed its first chief executive and is planning a renewed push in the new year. David Pilsbury, previously head of...
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Bond buys Edinburgh a revamp
Edinburgh University is borrowing £40 million through a bond issue to the Prudential finance group in order to restructure. George Sutherland, Edinburgh's director of finance, said the university,...
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Whistleblowers: Evans's appeal upheld
Cambridge University breached its own rules and broke principles of natural justice when it decided not to promote history lecturer Gill Evans for the eighth year running this month, a university...
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Tough teacher talk for v-cs
Universities and schools are failing to work together to produce the type of professional teacher government reforms demand, according to a report from vice-chancellors and principals. Standards have...
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Dyslexic students of art get test help
The Royal College of Art has brought in language consultants to look at the needs of its dyslexic students. Alan Cummings, the college's new pro-rector, said that some 10 per cent of RCA students...
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History shows geographical bent
Geography is becoming more important to history departments, with a growth in more regional degree programmes, according to a survey by the History at the Universities Defence Group. The survey...
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Team plans to take IT to market
The government is teaming up with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to stop academic research in information technology gathering dust on a "virtual shelf". Research carried out...
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Germans make mark on high-earners list
German graduates earn the highest salaries in Europe, according to the largest ever survey of graduates in 12 countries. The survey, which questioned those who graduated in 1995, found that Germans...
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Brits get cash for star role in Chile
Astronomers have applauded the government's announcement that the United Kingdom will be joining the European Southern Observatory. Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, said: "The UK has slipped...
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Analysis: Trying to refresh a sullied image
With the BSE crisis, the unknown risk of radiation from mobile phones and unexpected floods attributed to global warming, science has had a rocky ride in the past few years. Few would deny that the...
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Analysis: The age of 'strategic alliances'
Bids for funding for new collaborations are growing faster than the funds. Claire Sanders reports. In a footnote to the government's announcement on widening participation in September, an extra £15...
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Don's Diary
February Film contributions to a BBC Horizon programme on Lake Vostok. Hours of questioning for a few minutes airtime. Lake Vostok is an enormous lake discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet only...
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In the news: Catherine Cesarsky
For United Kingdom astronomers, joining the European Southern Observatory would mean coming under the jurisdiction of ESO director general Catherine Cesarsky. She was appointed in September last year...
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Peer pressure for dons
So can we expect a few profs among the "people's peers", to be appointed next year? A spokesman for the House of Lords appointments commission confessed that a number of applications from academics...