Northern science lobbies to lift profile
The Northwest is the first English region to launch its own science strategy dedicated to regenerating and encouraging science. "England's Northwest - a strategy towards 2020", launched by the...
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New foot and mouth epidemic 'inevitable'
A new foot-and-mouth epidemic in the UK is "inevitable" and imminent, researchers at Cardiff University have warned. The process that led to last year's crisis, which cost taxpayers about £10 billion...
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College finds new ID
A Birmingham college threatened by closure three years ago is to move to a new £35 million campus. Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education, which bought land from Aston University,...
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Ulster v-c slams fees
Vice-chancellor of Ulster University Gerry McKenna has condemned top-up fees as "inherently discriminatory" and unfair on middle-income families. Speaking at Limavady College of Further Education,...
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Animal tester insured
The government is to provide Huntingdon Life Sciences, the chemical, pharmaceutical and toxicological testing centre, with insurance services. The company, which has endured ongoing attacks from...
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Wales funds change
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is to invest £5.3 million to support "major change" in the structure of Welsh higher education. Money will be allocated to institutions that have...
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Students knock boring tutors
Tutors with poor command of English and lecturers who are boring came in for criticism from economics undergraduates, according to a survey. One student said: "Nothing against foreign lecturers, but...
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London six fight to tempt locals
Low aspirations of local people mean South London's six universities face a struggle to attract the 8,700 extra students a year needed to meet government targets, according to a report by consultants...
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Nathfhe strikes
* Strikes are likely to shut London's universities one day every month for at least four months of next year after lecturers' union Natfhe, the Association of University Teachers, Unison and Amicus...
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Modular degrees linked to suicides
Modularisation and bigger staff-to-student ratios in higher education could be contributing factors in student suicides, a guide has warned. Modular degree courses can exacerbate students' feelings...
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Sacked lecturer wins new tribunal
A lecturer sacked by Surrey University after complaining about management practices at the business school where he worked has been given a second chance to claim victimisation under the law to...
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'Teaching research in danger'
Teaching as a research-based profession is in grave danger, education secretary Charles Clarke has been warned this week. The British Educational Research Association has written to Mr Clarke to...
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'We're serving Jesus - without the labels'
Where once university chaplains dealt solely with issues of religion, today they offer more general support to those of any or no faith. Olga Wojtas reports Bath University's Christmas carol service...
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'Cool' TV celeb helps with campus depression
A drug company is paying the star of a reality television show to give talks at US universities in a bid to deal with the growing problem of depression among students. MTV series The Real World,...
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Council forces Wits v-c to resign
Before Norma Reid Birley resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand, the university chair of council threatened her with dismissal and immediate ejection from the official...