Cash for Scots students
The Scottish Executive hopes to widen participation in further and higher education with a £49 million programme that will give cash to young people who stay on at school or college. Jim Wallace,...
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Fear over IP proposals
Academics at Cambridge University will have to ask the authorities for permission to make money from their ideas under new intellectual property proposals, it was claimed this week. Revised IP...
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Public health 'ignored'
Research into how to deal with public health threats such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, terrorism and obesity is being dangerously neglected, some of the country's leading health experts...
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Treasury-CMI deal criticised
The Treasury was accused this week of setting an unwelcome "constitutional precedent" by excluding government colleagues from plans to set up a £65 million partnership between Cambridge University...
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Industry winners losing out in the RAE
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports University departments doing research vital to the future of the UK economy are under threat from the research...
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'Fourth-stream research is vital but difficult'
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports Minoo Patel, head of the School of Engineering, is keen to define and illustrate what Cranfield University means by...
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Model Cranfield caught in trap
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports Cranfield University finds itself at the heart of an uncomfortable contradiction in government policy. It works with...
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Welsh v-cs concerned about 'cuts' to budget
Welsh university heads have reacted angrily to "effective real-terms cuts" as allocations were unveiled this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. Allocations for teaching for next...
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New boss ready to rattle Manchester
The preoccupation with variable tuition fees is a damaging distraction to the wider debate over the future of higher education, according to the incoming president of the newly expanded Manchester...
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Aussie students fight top-up fees
Students at universities in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria took action as governing councils considered a federal government option to increase fees by up to 25 per cent. More than 1,000...
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'Flawed' report riles elite
Two top New Zealand universities have resorted to the courts to stop publication of a report on research performance that makes comparisons with the UK. Auckland and Victoria universities claim the...
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Hawaii hopes to get blues
The University of Hawaii's department of tropical plant and soil sciences has embarked on a ten-year quest to develop the first blue orchid. Students and faculty in the department assist Hawaii's...
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12 Saudi liberals arrested
Five academics were among 12 Saudi Arabian liberals arrested in a countrywide purge last month, according to human rights agencies. One professor is said to have been detained while in the middle of...
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PM jumps gun with A$3bn vow
Brendan Nelson, Australia's education minister, has promised universities up to A$3 billion (£1.23 billion) extra in federal research grants if the Howard government is re-elected this year. Speaking...
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Fair-trade coffee earns York a bean
Canada's York University has unveiled its own brand of fair-trade coffee. Las Nubes, the Costa-Rican-grown coffee, will give the Toronto-based university a buzz while offering a novel way of...