University of Dundee - Lecturer forged references
The General Medical Council has ruled that a University of Dundee lecturer forged references he submitted with his application to a postgraduate course. When Rafik Anis, clinical lecturer in...
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University of Derby - VAT cut brings staff bonuses
The recent cut in the rate of VAT has prompted the University of Derby to give staff up to £100 in shopping vouchers, to a total value of £211,000. It says the reduction from 17.5 per cent to 15 per...
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Rugby request kicked into touch
Academics at Leeds Metropolitan University have been urged by a local rugby union club to promote the game at their new-year lectures. University managers received an email from the Leeds Carnegie...
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University of Hertfordshire - Job worries outweigh partying
Students are more concerned about finding a job after they graduate than partying, according to the University of Hertfordshire. A national survey it conducted found that nine out of ten students...
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University of Salford - Solar-panel research wins funds
The future of solar-power generation could be shaped by a University of Salford project to improve the efficiency and durability of thin-film solar-cell panels. Researchers at its Institute for...
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University of Liverpool - How we did the funky gibbon
Researchers are citing the feet of gibbons as the modern-day equivalents of those on which prehistoric man may have moved about around 2 million years ago. Scientists at the University of Liverpool...
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University of Chester - Support services are five-star
The student support and guidance and careers and employability departments at the University of Chester have been graded "world class" by an international assessor. The university said the five-star...
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University of Bolton - Study will peddle pedal power
Staff at the University of Bolton's School of the Built Environment are taking part in a Department of Transport-commissioned three-year study on the popularity of cycling in the UK. Bolton is one of...
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University of Aberdeen/The Robert Gordon University - Time to survey the surveyors
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is funding an investigation of how surveying and built-environment education should adapt to meet the needs of industry over the next two decades. The £30,...
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It's a hard feat to cut rise in global heat
The Met Office has released early global temperature figures, in partnership with the University of East Anglia, showing that 2008 was the tenth warmest year since records began in 1850. The...
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HE ambitions linked to interest in current affairs
Students with a strong interest in current affairs are much more likely to plan to go to university than those who are not engaged with the news, research suggests.Researchers measured the "cultural...
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Original features
Universities all over the country are upping their efforts to get schoolchildren on campus, but a science centre at Queen Mary, University of London is hoping to raise the bar substantially when it...
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News in brief
DIUS funding£158m retraining allocationsThe Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has released details of how it will allocate a £158 million fund to help train people who are...
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Fears of a price war are mounting following the freeing of universities to set their own overseas student fees from next year. And there are predictions that the ending of the informal cartel using...
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Industry raps performance gap
Professional body's report is a 'wake-up call' for European business schools, writes Hannah Fearn