Shielding against imitation
While the Lambert review recommends that business should better exploit universities, there's one institution that's rather miffed at being exploited by Lambert. The Open University has written to...
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Physical attraction
A column purporting to identify the best physics jokes appears in this month's Physics World magazine. The Diary particularly likes the following, sent in by Ruth Hamilton of the Yorkhill NHS Trust....
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Rent-a-quote raises his game
Cary Cooper's move from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to Lancaster University has not reduced the number of times his wise words have graced the pages of our national...
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Currying favour
Parents are being encouraged to send hampers to their offspring at university. The web-based company studenthampers.com will dispatch a parcel containing "easy-to-prepare hot meals, treats and snacks...
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Why I ... believe more students will opt for bankruptcy despite efforts to stop them
From April, the option of bankruptcy will suddenly become much more attractive to students looking for a way out of their debts, when new legislation comes into force aimed at helping entrepreneurs....
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Nursery or bursary?
The government should invest at preschool level and up to widen access, argues Leon Feinstein Tony Blair recently referred to the benefit of public-sector funding of programmes for preschool children...
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Scrap that student survey now
The proposed national satisfaction poll would be a costly and pointless exercise, says Lee Harvey The Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposed national student survey is a misleading,...
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Grants key to dropout rate, v-cs warn
Fewer students are dropping out of UK universities but the improvement is unlikely to continue if top-up fees are introduced without bigger maintenance grants, vice-chancellors have warned. Dropout...
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In the news: James Ross
Gas company chief James Ross has been appointed the first chairman of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Mr Ross, 65, chairman of gas-piping company National Grid Transco, will head the...
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Appointments
* The University of Oxford has made the following appointments: Marilyn McCord Adams , chair of historical theology at Yale University, regius professor of divinity and canon professor at Christ...
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Critics lambast Winston's ideas
Celebrity scientist Lord Winston has sparked an outcry among academics by calling for the public to dictate the direction of British science, arguing that mistrust of science has reached "crisis"...
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Scientists find a parallel world
"When you are inside Parliament you get the impression that very few people know about science. That needs to change," Mark Lancaster, one of the partners in an experimental Royal Society scheme...
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Boycott of TV MMR debate under attack
Scientists and doctors who backed out of a potentially hostile television debate about the measles mumps and rubella vaccine wasted an important opportunity, key figures in science communication have...
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Pay dispute prompts AUT to ballot on action that will 'hurt students'
Old universities could be hit by a wave of industrial action designed to "hurt students" as early as February next year, writes Phil Baty. The executive committee of the Association of University...
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Brown to budget for R&D
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week said he wanted to make Britain "the best location" in the world for science, research and development. Delivering his pre-budget report to the Commons on Wednesday,...