UK leaps to global success
British universities are the biggest winners in The Times Higher 's 2005 World University Rankings, published this week. Harvard University is again the world's top institution, with the...
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The job's yours... actually it's not
Gargi Bhattacharyya had already informed Birmingham University that she would be taking a year off and moving to London to take up the post of president of the Association of University Teachers. It...
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'Rich children are already bussed to top schools - but in people carriers'
Government plans to give schools more freedom to run their own affairs should not overshadow the help that poor parents need to pick the right school for their child, an economist who has advised the...
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On the move ...
* Royal Holloway, University of London, has appointed Rupert Gough director of choral music. He will take the lead in maintaining and developing the college's long-established chapel choir tradition...
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Royalties coup boosts science
An intellectual property rights agreement worth £144 million has been clinched by the Medical Research Council. Anna Fazackerley reports The Medical Research Council this week sealed one of world's...
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Pay shake-up will ease jobs crisis - UUK
The new framework for academic' pay will help universities to address their shortage of economists, engineers and lawyers, MPs were told this week. Drummond Bone, president of Universities UK, told...
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Virologists hatch plan to beat bird flu
Virologists at Cambridge University have teamed up with scientists from the Roslin Institute to create genetically modified chickens that can resist the lethal H5N1 avian flu virus, writes Yfke van...
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Budget rejig could harm art holdings
Curators are calling for the £9 million system of "ring-fenced" grants for university museums and galleries to be protected amid fears that changes to the funding regime will see budgets for art...
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Next week
Letters, libraries and Larkin Roger McGough recalls rare words of encouragement from the notoriously curmudgeonly Philip Larkin at Hull University
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Pay windfall at Dundee
Minimum lecturing salaries will rise 15 per cent at Dundee University as it becomes the first Scottish institution to establish the new pay framework. New lecturers will earn a minimum salary of £28,...
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Oxford paper pulped
Oxford University ordered the destruction of last week's issue of its student newspaper after it published leaked material from a student disciplinary case. Oxford Student journalists Patrick Foster...
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Private halls sold off
Halls of residence in Manchester, Aberdeen and Glasgow were sold this week for £57 million. University Partnerships Programme - formerly part of Jarvis - sold property housing 1,386 students to...
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Bringing us all to book
A genetics landmark was passed this week with the publication of a catalogue of human genetic variation by the International HapMap Consortium. Oxford University and the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
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Degrees of success
The Government was this week due to publish research into the early careers of graduates who left university in 1999. A team from the the University of the West of England and the Institute for...
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UK fears Europe control
Leading figures in British science are trying to wrestle the new European Research Council away from the European Commission's control. The exact governance arrangements of the new European council,...