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Hard-up research 'heading for crisis'
The perennial debate over the way universities receive government research funds was reignited this week amid warnings that the sector is once again "galloping away to disaster". A report on the...
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Future science outlined for Brown
The government's seven research councils have told Treasury officials how their research is likely to develop over the next ten years in response to the long-term science review announced by the...
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University ties help business foster innovation, report finds
Firms are far more likely to be innovators if they have links with universities, the most comprehensive survey of innovation in the UK to date has found. Only one in five firms without university...
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QAA links quality faults to cash flow
One in three students drops out of degree courses at further education colleges, quality watchdogs have found. Overworked staff, badly stocked libraries and high student dropout rates are among the...
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FE fears effects of top-up fees
The introduction of top-up fees threatens to widen the funding gap for teaching between further and higher education to "indefensible" levels, college heads have claimed. They also argue that...
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Totally tropical tartan envoy
An academic at St Andrews University has been appointed to the diplomatic corps of the Kingdom of Redonda, a tiny uninhabitable island northwest of Montserrat in the Caribbean, which was discovered...
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Cold-spot scheme warms to success
Liverpool Hope University College is reaching out to communities that have traditionally shunned higher education through a campus-share project with local sixth-form colleges. The project has been...
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Negligence claim
Lawyers representing victims of what has been described as the largest mass poisoning in history are seeking to take their case to the House of Lords after it was thrown out by the Court of Appeal....
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Nesta cash imbalance
London receives about three times the amount of grants for arts and science projects from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts than might be expected for its population,...
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Cosmic investment
A £21 million programme to study the building blocks of the universe was approved this week by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. It will fund two university centres and 18 academic...
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Correction
The pay rise of Sir Michael Bichard, rector of the London Institute, reported last week ("Thriving v-cs net 6.1 per cent rise in wages", February 20) was 2.7 per cent not 9.9 per cent.
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Credits for prior learning face curb
University schemes allowing students to skip up to two-thirds of their degree courses by paying to have their work experience and even hobbies turned into academic credits are facing a clampdown by...
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Feathers fly as pigeons take to the road
An Oxford University zoologist has been accused of academic misconduct over his work on the homing instincts of racing pigeons, the results of which are to be broadcast in a prime-time BBC TV show...
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Scots research trumps rivals
Scottish institutions beat their English and international counterparts in terms of bang for research buck, according to a new report. A key measure of research quality is the number of times...