Running with the wind of change
Teaching assessment focuses on stars, but it must also reward the hard slog of the majority, argues Caroline Bucklow It came as a bit of a shock when, along with other associate lecturers for the...
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Can spin-outs reap returns?
Having a stake in a Pounds 150 million firm might sound pretty appealing to the average academic, but the path to the successful spin-out can be strewn with obstacles. Martin Ince reports Academics...
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What gives you fever?
A genetic defect that scientists believe causes familial Hibernian fever, a rare condition mostly affecting people of Irish and Scottish decent, could provide new clues to the elusive mechanisms that...
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Diving for treasure fit for a king
Divers from St Andrews University believe they could be on the verge of solving a maritime mystery through an expedition to the bottom of the River Forth. A team of experts from the archaeological...
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Who's going to clean up in the JIF awards?
The Joint Infrastructure Fund will soon award Pounds 100 million or more of contracts. Julia Hinde reports Universities the country over could soon be transformed into building sites as the first...
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A senior official at Portugal's ministry of education has resigned after the public prosecution office decided to investigate the private Modern University. Reports of alleged financial...
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Lord Sainsbury: How we are encouraging entrepreneurs
Competitive advantage comes not from doing what other countries do well but from what we can do better than them, and in this country one of the things we do outstandingly well is scientific...
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How to identify your skills
Science PhD graduates have many marketable skills that can land them an alternative career. Medical writer Chandra Louise tells Natasha Loder Two years ago, Chandra Louise was, in her own words, yet...
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Post-result application plan gets short shrift from staff
New admissions procedures where students apply to university once they have their A-level results would be "unworkable", bring few benefits to applicants or universities and seriously cut staff...
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V-cs propose fee voucher scheme
Higher education fee vouchers should be introduced and universities should be allowed to charge more for some courses, vice-chancellors said this week. They argued that such steps are necessary to...
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Thais look to UK for learning excellence
Thailand's Ministry of University Affairs has called on British politicians and education leaders to broker more partnerships between Thai and British higher education institutions, writes Tony...
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Police are keeping a close watch on students, intellectuals and the grave of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang to prevent public commemorations of the tenth anniversary of the start of the...
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Norway awarded a record number of doctorates in 1998 - 685, compared with 625 in 1997. Mathematics and natural sciences accounted for 29 per cent of theses in 1998. The proportion awarded to women...
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Soldiers have clashed with students at the University of Konkon in Guinea over the death of a chemistry student knocked down while shopping by a taxi driver. When students allegedly destroyed the...
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Three medical professors at the University of Milan have been arrested on fraud and corruption charges in connection with consultancy work at an exclusive private teaching hospital, the San Raffaele...