Comet threat averted
British space scientists were working this week to prevent the wreck of some of Europe's most important satellites by space debris. John Zarnecki, of the University of Kent, was one of a team at the...
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Online thrill, but geology job loss
Britain's geological record is to be digitised and put online as the British Geological Survey undergoes a major reorganisation. The move to transfer details of a portion of the survey's millions of...
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Industry link needs cash carrot
Government and education officials are making a concerted effort to create an annual Pounds 100 million stream of funding for universities to help strengthen their links with industry, business and...
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Hostels say debt deters young
Roughly 15,000 young homeless people have the potential to benefit from higher education. But they see it as "a foreign country", with the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service as "a...
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UEA fined on safety
The University of East Anglia has been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws after an explosion at its flagship school of environmental sciences. UEA was fined Pounds 9,500 and made to pay...
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Rotblat pushes for an ethics oath
Sir Joseph Rotblat's campaign for a Hippocratic oath for scientists is stirring up the international debate on science ethics. The nuclear scientist and Nobel laureate has been contacted by...
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Pisa
British foreign secretary Robin Cook and Helen Liddell, minister responsible for the single market, are to intervene in an action pending at the European Court of Justice in support of more than 1,...
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Prague
Czech government and opposition leaders this week celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Velvet revolution, which ended 40 years of communist rule. The revolution was sparked by the police's brutal...
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Chiefs query Cubie maths
Scottish principals are lamenting the Cubie inquiry's headline-grabbing price tag of Pounds 12 million to axe higher education tuition fees north of the border. In its response to Cubie's second...
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Art students say no to modules
Fine-art students at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside are so angry at changes in their degree programme that they have founded their own school of art. With help from staff, more than 40...
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Oxford evicts fee protesters
Student unrest over tuition fees re-emerged this week as protesters were evicted from Oxford University's development office after a weekend occupation. The university won High Court permission on...
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Uni hires debt collecting firm
Middlesex University is employing a firm of debt collectors to chase unpaid tuition fees. University finance directors say the action is largely unheard of but could set a precedent. Fee-paying...
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Troubleshooter vexed
Funding chiefs have drafted veteran college troubleshooter Terry Melia to probe The THES's revelations that Melton Mowbray College recruited suspected illegal immigrants as students despite warnings...
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LJMU reviews its conferral of professorships
Liverpool John Moores University is reviewing its procedures for conferring professorships following an investigation into academic fraud by Whistleblowers. The discovery earlier this month that...
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Change freezes library research
University librarians fear that research in their field is under threat as a result of a big shake-up of official bodies charged with keeping an overview of the sector. The concerns stem from the...