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Blair not bent on top-up fees, says Clarke Downing Street is "not wedded" to the idea of top-up fees for university students, the education secretary, Charles Clarke, told MPs yesterday. Though Tony...
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Defra chief makes Whitehall take note
Howard Dalton was well aware of the challenge when he agreed to become the first chief scientific adviser for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Although Defra was a relatively...
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GM debate 'should put science before dogma'
Exotic plants available at garden centres are more of a threat to the environment than genetically modified crops, Lord May of Oxford will tell members of the Royal Society today. In his annual...
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Keele to axe jobs
Academics' union leaders at Keele University are outraged at plans to axe 35 posts to stave off a financial crisis. The university has told staff it needs to cut academic jobs to save £1.5 million...
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Whistleblowers: University won funding by 'misrepresentation'
Funding chiefs are to investigate allegations that the University of North London made "extensive misrepresentations" in its submissions for funding in the research assessment exercise. In a letter...
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Meet target or lose cash, report warns
Institutions that fail to put their weight behind the government's widening-participation strategy will have their public funding stopped, warns a detailed strategy document unveiled by the funding...
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Opposition mauls 50 per cent 'con-trick'
Opposition politicians have denounced the government's 50 per cent participation target as a "con-trick" after details of methodology came to light in the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Hefce 'out of step' with centre
An arts centre catering for students with disabilities is struggling to secure cash from the funding councils because of the "inflexible" accreditation system. A third of students at Leicester...
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NHS told to learn from US example
The government is not doing enough to recruit and retain clinical academics, a report from the Nuffield Trust says. "The UK government is pursuing a policy of unprecedented growth in funding for the...
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Research strategy limits teaching of students
Students are suffering because universities have failed to take seriously the distorting effects of research on teaching, a top educationist has warned. Graham Gibbs, director of the Centre for...
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Few respond to consultation on RAE
Sir Gareth Roberts has revealed that there were only 30 written responses to the review of research assessment, although he hoped for a last-minute flurry before the consultation ended today. The...
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Findings: X-ray specs for hole diggers
Devices that can "look" into the ground to "see" buried pipes, patches of contaminated soil and even underground geological structures have been developed by scientists, writes Steve Farrar. The...
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Findings: Climate curtain divides Europe
The cold war map of Europe may have melted but it seems an iron curtain of climate change is now dividing the continent, writes Steve Farrar. Scientists have found that while springtime is beginning...
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Legal bid mooted over axed art course
Students of Lincoln University's fine art degree in Hull have threatened to take legal action to overturn plans to close their course and make staff redundant. "We consider the authorities to have...
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British shun careers abroad
Almost two-thirds of British students lack the essential skills and attitudes to compete for top graduate jobs across Europe, new research shows. The European Student Survey 2002, which looked at...