Computing hit by low take-up
Academics face redundancy as former boom subject fails to attract new students. Chloe Stothart reports Redundancies are looming as the once booming field of computer science shows signs of bust, with...
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Masons shake on new effort to sign up students
The Freemasons have set up a scheme to recruit more university staff and students, writes Chloe Stothart. Under the scheme, Masonic lodges in Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Exeter,...
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Sustainability award energised St Andrews
Winning a Times Higher award is often a matter of years of hard work coming together at just the right time. When St Andrews University won our first award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable...
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Foreign service. The internationalisation of UK academe PLUS Will rejecting materialism make us happier?
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Teesside expands
Teesside University is going for growth by investing £2 million to recruit 51 new staff, including 25 academics in posts ranging from lecturer to professor. The posts, which are advertised in this...
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Union attacks job cuts
The lecturers' union at Cardiff University this week criticised plans to make 20 academics redundant in response to funding shortfalls in the university's Business School, education unit, School of...
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'Gaps' in Islam studies
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is earmarking £1 million to tackle "gaps" in the teaching and research of Islamic studies, which was this week designated a "strategically important"...
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MRC eyes biomarkers
The Medical Research Council has launched £17 million worth of projects designed to explore the indicators of disease known as biomarkers. Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the MRC, said: "We've...
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Risky business
The Government's plans to move towards employer-led degrees pose risks for higher education, according to a report from an education think-tank. The Higher Education Policy Institute said that...
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Champion fighting the rise of 'doctor factories'
Professor Sir John Tooke has been thrust into the heart of a fundamental debate about the direction and nature of UK higher education. As dean of the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, Sir John is...
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200 scientists join forces
Huge cross-discipline gene study leads to breakthroughs and calls for more collaborations, Olga Wojtas writes. This week sees the publication of the results of the £9 million Wellcome Trust Case...
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Sustainable grounds for campus growth
Universities must court students keen to be green, writes Rebecca Attwood. Universities will have to go green to stay competitive, according to the student campaign group behind a new league table...
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Artificial snot created
Researchers have created artificial "snot" to enhance the performance of electronic noses. The researchers, at Warwick and Leicester universities, have coated the sensors used by odour-sensing "...
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Library for Aberdeen
Aberdeen University is to build a new library in the next phase of its ten-year £228 million investment programme. The £55.5 million project will be the largest capital fundraising project undertaken...
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Diabetes work backed
Scientists at Swansea University's School of Medicine have been awarded more than £93,000 by the Bupa Foundation to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate...