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Colleges strike About 70,000 lecturers and technicians and other support staff are expected to take part in a one-day strike across England and Wales on November 5. They reject a 2.3 per cent pay...
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Clash of egos shakes world of physics Stephen Hawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, was accused yesterday of receiving instant credibility because of his celebrity...
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Today's news
Funding crisis deepens Academics fear 50 per cent target is doomed as the Department for Education and Skills looks at cost. (The Guardian) Clash of egos shakes world of physics Stephen Hawking,...
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Update: 12:25
Hefce gets new directors Three new directors have been appointed to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Liz Beaty, director of higher education development at Coventy University, will...
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Today's news
Eighty per cent want rise in university funding A significant percentage of voters want the government to put more money into universities to match the planned expansion in higher education places,...
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Today's news
Eighty per cent want rise in university funding A significant percentage of voters wants the government to put more money into universities to match the planned expansion in higher education places,...
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Update: 12:40
Queen's Belfast hosts future of Europe conference Some 200 academics, senior civil servants and government officials are gathering this week at Queen's University Belfast to discuss the future of...
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Scientist arrested over trade espionage
A researcher has been accused of stealing trade secrets from a US university laboratory, the second such case in as many months. Yin Qingqiang was arrested while trying to pass through a security...
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E-learning solves resource problem
Nigeria is combating a dearth of academic books and journals through a national virtual library project that is set to serve 18 study centres across the country. The Nigerian minister for education,...
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Positive use of negative
It could be interpreted as another wheeze linked to the research assessment exercise, but The Diary is assured that a new publication, The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine , has been...
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Plight of the navigator
A former lecturer in marine navigation has had to be rescued by a lifeboat after getting stuck on a sandbank. Yachtsman Peter Mitchell was stuck for seven hours upstream from Sunderland Yacht Club on...
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When size matters
Swiss scientists have worked out the average dimensions of a European nose. At the age of 30, the average European man's nose is 5.8cm long and sticks out 2.6cm from the face. For a woman of the same...
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For the Farterland
Nose picking, farting and belching in public are rife in the UK, according to a survey by London's Science Museum. More than a third of the 6,000 people surveyed said they picked their nose more than...
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Next week
News Crisis in science: can universities do more to woo students back to maths, physics and chemistry? Features BA Festival of Science: why Leicester's role in the space programme makes it the...
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Can they justify their £750m JIF awards?
THES staff assess the Joint Infrastructure Fund's impact. When the Joint Infrastructure Fund was unveiled by the Office of Science and Technology and the Wellcome Trust in July 1998, it sparked a...