Host female scientists
The government has invited tenders from institutions wishing to host an £800,000 women in science, engineering and technology resource centre. As part of its strategy to help boost the number of...
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Online bonus, e-ventually
What has happened to the UK's £62m e-university? Mark Samuels reports Teaching students online can seem like a mission impossible. All too often, e-learning leaves students frustrated and bored....
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Hard-up Oxford college axes history
Harris Manchester, Oxford's college for mature students and an important part of its access drive, is to cut history amid serious financial difficulties. The decision has angered students and the...
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In the news: Joann Fletcher
The study of hair may sound trifling, but it has thrust British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher into the centre of a heated international controversy. Dr Fletcher, who claimed last week to have found the...
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Elite face cuts to teaching grant
Teaching grants for universities offering traditional degrees will be raided to pay for courses favoured by government under proposals by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. If the...
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Rumours of spin unite opposition
The government this week denied that it was planning to relaunch its top-up fees policy, writes Alison Goddard. Reports that ministers plan to rebrand £3,000-a-year top-up fees as an "individualised...
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Oxford expert fights in 'pure' Iceland battle
An Oxford University statistician has helped to dispel doubts about a study that identified Icelanders as a uniquely pure gene pool suitable for ground-breaking medical research. Peter Donnelly is a...
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Genetic tests move onto geography agenda
Geographers, famed for their interdisciplinary approach to research, fear that the field of human genetic testing could potentially open the floodgates to greater social and political discrimination...
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Lack of data threatens quest to save species
Worldwide targets to stop plant and animal species disappearing could be missed because there are no definitive measures of rate of loss, according to the UK's leading scientists. Exactly a year ago...
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Findings: Latin a 'detour' to languages
Learning Latin used to be considered the key to learning other foreign languages, writes Neil Martin. Generations of schoolchildren knew that nobody spoke it any more and it seemed useful only to...
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Appointments
The University of Manchester has appointed Amelia Jones, former professor of art history at the University of California, as Pilkington chair of art history; Dorothy Trump, currently lecturer in...
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Whistleblowers: Ex-students reject £5k Oxford Brookes offer
Twenty-nine former students of Oxford Brookes University have rejected ex gratia payments of up to £5,000 each to drop their compensation claim after the university repeatedly failed to gain...
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Next week
DIVORCE OR DIVERSIFY Does good teaching depend on research? Or should universities choose one or the other? The THES kicks off a new series ALSO Dame Margaret Anstee reviews two books about the...
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Revamp results in campus closure
Southampton University is to close and sell off its flagship widening participation campus in parallel with a major restructuring exercise. The New College site, formerly the La Sainte Union College...
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Scottish merger plan
Lecturers' union the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association is balloting its members over a merger with the Educational Institute of Scotland. The proposed "transfer of engagements" would...