Notts duo plays key role in bio research
Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University have opened the largest biomedical science park and incubation centre in the UK, writes Tony Tysome. BioCity Nottingham is a joint venture...
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January start lures new type of entrant
Thousands of students are starting higher education courses this month, avoiding the stress and rush associated with autumn enrolment. Most are mature, part-time or otherwise "non-traditional"...
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Analysis: Do we need the 50% target?
What must the government address in its upcoming strategy paper? Alan Thomson opens a series on the vital issues by asking whether ministers' aims to get half the population into HE are achievable or...
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Analysis: Poorer students pay the price for funding expansion
What must the government address in its upcoming strategy paper? Alan Thomson opens a series on the vital issues by asking whether ministers' aims to get half the population into HE are achievable or...
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Breaking down the borders of science
When Oxford University advertised its new interdisciplinary graduate training programme, it received more than 120 applications in two weeks for ten places, with many graduates offering to pay their...
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Findings: Chemically constrained
A chemist's view of evolution has revealed the guiding hand that gives Richard Dawkins's blind watchmaker a sense of direction, writes Steve Farrar. Robert Williams, senior research fellow at Wadham...
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Findings: Bad manners pay off for MPs
Female MPs are being marginalised because their male counterparts in the House of Commons are more prepared to bend and break the rules, writes Steve Farrar. A linguistic analysis of parliamentary...
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New year honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Clive Booth , chairman, Teacher Training Agency, for services to higher education. Alan Fersht , FRS, professor of organic chemistry, University of Cambridge, for services to protein...
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Islamic groups linked to killing
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has linked the assassination of a history lecturer at the University of Ankara to the academic's research into radical Islamic groups. Assistant professor Necip...
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Remarks on fascism fuel row
When UK historian Eric Hobsbawm declared at the Rome History Book Fair last year that "we need to have the courage to say that not everything about fascism was terrible", he found himself in the...
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Russian professor on trial over ethnic survey
A sociology professor at Stavropol State University in southern Russia has been put on trial on charges of provoking inter-ethnic strife. Viktor Avksentev is editor and co-author of a monograph...
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Botswana reopens after exam uproar shutdown
Botswana's only university will reopen on January 6 after disruption to examinations by unruly students forced it to close early for the holidays. Most students were given only a few hours' notice...
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Business demands edge out minorities
The rate of increase in the number of women and minorities serving as presidents of US universities is slowing as more schools turn to non-academics to take on an increasingly complicated job, a...
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Ageing Australia faces student shortage
Universities and schools in some Australian states will soon run short of students because of the country's greying population. They will be forced to recruit even more foreigners to survive,...
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Brazil's poor get £5.7m boost to learning
Brazil is to make cash available for cramming courses to enable its underprivileged young people to go to university. The move reflects the pledge by the country's new president, Luiz In cio da Silva...