Student cheat figures shock
As many as a third of all undergraduates could be plagiarising from the internet, a new study suggests. In a paper for next week's inaugural Plagiarism Advisory Service (Pas) conference, Fintan...
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Back animal lab, top surgeon demands
One of the UK's top brain surgeons this week attacked the Government for failing to defend animal research at Oxford University as evidence of a growing campaign by animal rights extremists came to...
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Red tape drives Smithers private
Buckingham University, Britain's only private university, is gearing up to recruit more high-profile academics after the capture of Alan Smithers from Liverpool. Terence Kealey, the vice-chancellor,...
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Website to trace stolen artefacts
An online "identity parade" of looted ancient statues has been compiled by UK academics in the hope of tracing treasures missing from archaeological sites and monuments in Albania, writes Paul Hill....
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Exam reforms edge nearer
Key elements of the planned ten-year reform of GCSE and A levels could be brought forward to help universities distinguish between the best candidates and to deter institutions from setting their own...
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We'll halt expansion if we win, say Tories
The Conservative Party will abolish all university tuition fees and abandon the government's 50 per cent participation target if it wins the next general election, it was confirmed this week. In an...
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Men leave low-status academy to women
The declining social and economic status of academics, combined with increasing regulation, may be to blame for falling numbers of male lecturers, although this could be opening opportunities for...
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'Research funding fast-tracks men into top jobs'
The closing of the gender gap is "barely visible" at a management level and men in their mid-30s are still more likely to be fast-tracked through the ranks, says Hilary Pilkington. Professor...
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Female majority in medic studies
Women are outnumbering men in medical schools across the UK as male students continue to turn away from a career in medicine, a British Medical Association study has found. A report on the demography...
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'Fat-cat' post angers union
One of higher education's top ambassadors, Roderick Floud, has been branded a "fat cat" over his appointment as president of London Metropolitan University immediately after his retirement as its...
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Extinct birds to return to Britain
Ghost suits and puppetry skills are helping Stirling University researchers reintroduce the Great Bustard to Britain 175 years after it died out here. Patrick Osborne, senior lecturer in...
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'Soft' courses attacked
Runaway growth in community education is evidence that tertiary education reform in New Zealand is not working, universities say. Spending on the low-level courses doubled last year and has increased...
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Medici tomb is opened
Researchers from the universities of Florence, Pisa, Long Island and Minnesota have finally opened the first three of 49 tombs of members of the Medici dynasty, who ruled Florence and much of Tuscany...
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V-c snubbed by council
The University of New South Wales council has questioned its departing vice-chancellor's decision to clear a renowned transplant immunologist of charges of scientific misconduct. In April, vice-...
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French research funds win tax breaks
France has launched its first public utility research foundations, which are aimed at encouraging private industry and individuals to invest in public research through tax breaks. Research minister...