Tories target science
The Conservative Party has set up a task force on science, technology, engineering and mathematics as a key part of its Economic Competitiveness Policy Review Group established by party leader David...
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Women out on top
The expansion of higher education has benefited women from middle-income backgrounds rather than men and women from the poorest backgrounds, David Willetts, the Shadow Education Secretary, told an...
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HND students' loss
Foundation degree students at higher education institutions outnumber those on higher national diploma courses, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. In 2004-05, the overall...
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Correction
Our feature (May 12) about Oxford University's struggles with Nippon Dental University over the return of an ancient medical text should have stated that, under Japanese law, anyone who unwittingly...
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Mark of quality sparks flurry of enthusiasm
Best Student Experience Even the official Frisbees of the University of Wales, Swansea, advertise the fact that the institution won The Times Higher 's Best Student Experience 2005 award. Across...
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In his own words
In his own words: an image of linguistics guru Noam Chomsky has been created by Nicholas Wade, professor of visual psychology at Dundee University. Titled Deep Structure , it features phrases that...
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Islamic teaching to be scrutinised
Minister alarmed by 'wrong-headed influences' on students launches review, reports Claire Sanders The Government has launched a major review of the teaching of Islam in colleges and universities in...
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Six put faith in Hobsons choice
A UK service centre will take contact with foreign applicants out of the hands of academics, writes John O'Leary Six universities are planning to bring in a private company to handle sensitive...
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Council calls for Ellis to be sacked
Free speech was high on the agenda of the final AUT meeting. Phil Baty reports Activists from the Association of University Teachers swept aside concerns that they were abandoning the union's...
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Fight for NHS cash hots up as 'chaos' threatens nurse training jobs
Pressure is building on the Department of Health to transfer the billions of pounds it spends on the education and training of nurses and other health professionals to the Higher Education Funding...
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Milking it
Milking it: public understanding of science infiltrated the largest public art event, the CowParade, at its Edinburgh launch. Glasgow University researchers Gordon Barr and Andy Parkin created Chem-...
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Low morale and fear haunt staff
Favouritism and bullying alleged at Birmingham, reports Phil Baty A "culture of fear" and "rock-bottom morale" have been identified by academics at Birmingham University in a frank internal report on...
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Redundancy plan to boost wages
Thousands of Russian researchers face the sack under an Academy of Sciences modernisation plan designed to increase salaries threefold. Architects of the plan - approved by President Vladimir Putin,...
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Cuts hit Italy's Brain Return project
An ambitious programme to bring expatriate academics back to Italy and attract foreign researchers has been frozen due to lack of money, writes Paul Bompard in Rome. The "Brain Return" project was...
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Finnish masters lose large pay boon
A masters degree no longer guarantees a fat pay packet, according to research conducted by the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development. The proportion of Finns with a masters has increased...