Bodleian library plan rejected
Oxford University's controversial plan for a giant book storage facility was dealt a severe blow this week when city councillors refused it planning permission, writes Melanie Newman. The blueprint...
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Society 'shocked'
The Royal Astronomical Society says it is "shocked" by the sudden decision of the Science and Technology Facilities Council to withdraw the UK from the Gemini Observatory. The UK has been a key...
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Scots economy boost
A new institute to help researchers tackle some of the problems facing the Scottish economy has officially opened at Edinburgh University. The Scottish Institute for Research in Economics brings...
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Belfast joins Kolkata
Queen's University in Belfast and Bengal Engineering and Science University, Kolkata, have launched a scholarship programme to allow Indian science and technology students to live and work in Belfast...
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Global leaders wanted
Oxford and Princeton universities have jointly launched a new postdoctoral fellowship programme for would-be "global leaders" in developing countries. The Global Leaders Fellowship Programme will...
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Cash for healthy firms
New funding will boost a Warwick University programme helping small companies to prosper in the health sector. WMG, a Warwick University department that works with industry, has received an extra £1....
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A man with dramatic plot lines to make research work
Andrew Lavender dean of research, central school of speech and drama. French academics can rest easy. Despite orchestrating a play in which a family curse causes a man to kill French intellectuals in...
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Old rivalries resurface in Commons committee
Labour's anti-top-up campaigner to lock horns with the more pragmatic Lib Dem chair of new body overseeing higher education. Zoe Corbyn writes. Two MPs with key roles in a new parliamentary committee...
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The new home of the best and brightest?
As the University of Melbourne implements a radical new higher education model, some UK universities are showing interest in following suit. Hannah Fearn reports. Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the...
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World Encompassed
Czech Science and research gets boost The Czech Government will fund the transformation of the state's best higher education institutions into research universities as part of a drive to boost the...
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In the free-for-all of local pay talks, nobody wins
Trading national for local salary negotiations leads to more disputes and inequality, not less, says Sally Hunt. In 1997, the Dearing report said: "Central pay bargaining is under strain, as many...
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Peep's Diary
Coffee? Cake? Alphabet soup? Pity David Eastwood, the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He must have thought Hefce's annual meeting with university governors held...
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'Racism' is about more than colour
The problem with standard critical race theory is the narrowness of its remit, says Mike Cole. One of the main tenets of critical race theory is that "white supremacy" is the norm in societies rather...
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We must preserve our great treasure
The latest funding rise is too small to safeguard the proven excellence of Scotttish higher education, warns Anton Muscatelli. I will not be the only Scottish vice-chancellor disappointed at last...
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Quest for new grade system: must try harder
The Burgess report reveals a sector ducking the issue of our outdated degree classifications, argues Roger Brown. Anyone seeking a crash course in some of the dilemmas the sector currently faces...