Beam me up, on the double!
It's teleportation - but not as Captain Kirk knew it. York University computer experts have demonstrated how Star Trek fiction is already becoming scientific fact. In a classic episode of the TV...
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Cambridge leads rival on state school intake
Cambridge University is taking a far higher percentage of its students from the state sector than Oxford University - and the gap appears to be widening. Figures released by Cambridge this week show...
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Scotland's women step out of the shade
From queens to fishwives, suffragettes to prostitutes: the first Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is helping to address concerns about gender imbalance in historical record. The dictionary,...
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OU nets access funding windfall
£4.2 billion for teaching - an increase of 4 per cent in real terms £1.3 billion for research - up by 4.6 per cent in real terms £344 million for widening participation - up by 18.5 per cent in real...
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Oxbridge wins research cash race
Cambridge and Oxford universities are the main beneficiaries of research allocations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England unveiled this week, writes Jessica Shepherd. Cambridge, with...
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Loan rules may bar thousands from study
Tens of thousands of mature students could be forced to pay their £3,000 top-up fees upfront this year because the Government has blocked their access to state grants or loans. Student leaders have...
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Five new categories mark second year of awards
In what is fast becoming one of the highlights of higher education's social calendar, the Times Higher Awards 2006 were launched with a champagne party in the National Portrait Gallery in London....
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'Trust' means fewer checks
Higher education's quality watchdog will slash the number of inspections it carries out each year from several hundred to as few as 30 as it moves into a new phase of its light touch audit regime,...
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Sectarian discrimination fears hamper research recruitment
Ulster University must be more active in seeking out research stars, according to an external review chaired by Sir Graeme Davies, vice-chancellor of London University. It fears that UU may be too...
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Musicologists take note of melodies of diaspora
When people move they take their music with them - a phenomenon that will be examined by musicologists in Sicily this spring. A seminar on "the music of diasporas" will be the first major event...
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Red faces after find at green centre
A Spanish research centre specialising in renewable energy and environmental protection is engaged in a clean-up operation after nuclear waste was found in its own backyard. The Centre for Energy,...
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Women lead race to take Harvard top job
As the smoke begins to clear after the departure of Harvard president Lawrence Summers, at least four women have emerged as potential successors. If one were appointed, she would be the first female...
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Student expelled over calendar
A Belarusian university student has been expelled for possessing 5,000 pocket calendars bearing a photograph of academic Alaksandar Milinkevich, the main opposition candidate in this month's...
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Ramallah
Tuition fees for more than 19,000 Palestinian students will be cut by 75 per cent this semester under a Unesco project funded by the Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People. The...
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Luxembourg
A Thai research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped it out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology of...