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Oxbridge sets new exam to select the best Oxford and Cambridge universities are turning their back on A levels and reintroducing their own entrance exam papers after being overwhelmed by candidates...
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Bid for new blood
The government is seeking new members for its main science, engineering and technology advisory body. Science minister Lord Sainsbury, making the announcement, said interested individuals from...
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King's is victor in cell race
King's College London made history this week by announcing that it has generated and kept alive the first human embryonic stem (hES) cells in the UK. Researchers at the college's neuroscience...
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Kidnapped beauty queen due at Luton
Vietnam's reigning beauty queen has been kidnapped in an apparent bid to prevent her taking up a place at Luton University next month, writes Phil Baty. Eighteen-year old Miss Vietnam, Pham Thi Mai...
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Economists lose offices to lawyers
Three academics at University College Cork are considering legal action after they turned up to work to find that the management had changed the locks on their office doors and hired a removals firm...
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Academic to face panel
The vice-chancellor of Oxford University has confirmed that Andrew Wilkie - the academic at the centre of a row for refusing to consider an Israeli doctoral candidate for a place in his laboratory -...
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Aspirants get go-ahead
Chester College and King Alfred's College, Winchester, have won approval from the Privy Council for taught-degree-awarding powers. Both institutions hope to meet new criteria for the title of...
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Aberdeen pushes sport
Aberdeen and the Robert Gordon universities and Aberdeen College are joining forces with Aberdeen Football Club, local councils and Grampian Institute of Sport to turn the city into a centre of...
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Physicists shift base
Imperial College London has poached a team of leading theoretical physicists from Queen Mary, University of London. The group of string theorists is led by Chris Hull, who is credited with playing a...
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Clarification
Last week's league table of teacher training courses ( THES , August 8) was not published by the Teacher Training Agency, although it produced the data on which it was based. The ranking was...
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Whistleblowers: Brighton loses appeal in discrimination case
An employment appeal tribunal upheld a ruling that Brighton University discriminated against a disabled lecturer by making it impossible for her to return to work after sick leave. The tribunal found...
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Colleges lack cash to deliver quality
The quality of higher education courses delivered through further education colleges is damaged by a lack of money, according to an exclusive analysis of Quality Assurance Agency inspection reports...
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Call for foundation autonomy
Government plans to expand higher education through foundation degrees delivered by further education colleges will fail unless colleges are given more autonomy, the Learning and Skills Development...
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Town & Gown: City of bricks and mortars
Claire Sanders looks at Cambridge in the latest in our series on university towns More than any other city in the UK, Cambridge is a university city. On a hot summer day the sense of overheating is...