Asthma hazard for animal lab workers
Scientists and technicians who work with animals in ill-equipped laboratories run the risk of developing asthma. Exposure to high levels of airborne rat urine allergens has been identified as a key...
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It's time to rock the lecture boat
Throw all those notes overboard, says Nathan Abrams. Student-centred seminars are the way forward. Many lecturers compare their lectures to a voyage of discovery. The lecturer is the navigator and...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Allison Littlejohn Age : 40 Job : Lecturer in e-learning, Centre of Academic Practice, Strathclyde University...
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Shock at support for RAE
Radical changes to the research assessment exercise have been roundly rejected by grass-roots academics. Sir Gareth Roberts, commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to...
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Malaysia to monitor student prostitutes
The Malaysian government has set up a committee to monitor foreign students who are tempted to engage in immoral activities, including prostitution, during their stay in the country. The move comes...
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Cambridge academics set to vote on governance reforms
The task of determining the future shape of Cambridge University fell to its academics as ballot papers on governance and management reforms were sent out this week, writes Caroline Davis. The vote...
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Today's news
Brown and Clarke clash over top-up fees Cabinet ministers clashed yesterday over controversial plans to allow universities to charge top-up fees of up to £3,000 a year, which are expected to be...
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Update: 12:35
Strategy paper will be fine-tuned this weekend Ministers and officials will spend the weekend fine-tuning the higher education strategy paper, which is due to be published next Wednesday. No 10...
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Principal resigns over LSC dispute
A further education college principal who resigned after a row with his local learning and skills council claims college heads across the country are facing similar problems. Ahmed Choonara resigned...
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Bias cheats women of places
Women are less likely to win places in higher education than men although their qualifications are superior, according to unpublished research. An analysis by Derek Leslie, professor of economics at...
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In the news: Matthias Kelly
As the second of eight children, Matthias Kelly QC, the new chairman of the Bar Council, seems to have learnt early on to come out fighting. His inaugural speech as chairman pulls no punches. "Top-up...
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Appointments
* Cornelius Katona, professor of psychiatry of the elderly at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, has been named dean of the University of Kent's Institute of Medicine and Health...
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Census aids push to hit 50% target
Revised population figures have given an unexpected boost to the government's pledge to get half of all 18 to 30-year-olds into higher education by 2010, allowing civil servants to lower the targets...
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Increase in number of entrants helped by support system boost
Some 2.8 per cent more students entered higher education last autumn compared with the previous year, according to data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A total of 368,115...
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Matriculation diploma moved to back burner
The government has shelved plans for the introduction of a "matriculation diploma", which was proposed last year in its green paper on 14-19 education, writes Tony Tysome. The idea will be set aside...