Medics' funding future healthy
A reorganisation of the funding of medical, nursing and other healthcare students will bring stable funding and long-term investment to many new universities - but medics fear that it will also mean...
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Sci-fi crosses respect frontier
Science fiction has not been considered respectable because book covers are too brash for the average middle-class reader. But it is now achieving academic respectability, according to a researcher....
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Welsh science suffers neglect
Welsh researchers want a coherent science policy for Wales and the creation of a government advisory body to boost the weak research and development base. Wales has no science policy, and there is...
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Analysis: Just a chip off the old block?
In our second article marking the tenth year of new universities, Claire Sanders talks to parents and children who attended the same institution - pre and post-92. Bill and Steven Marshall Bill...
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Whistleblowers: Students challenge support for Monash v-c
The selection panel that appointed David Robinson vice-chancellor of Monash University was not aware that he had admitted to "a serious violation of scholarly standards" during his early career in...
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Business schools face jobs crisis
A surfeit of over-50s staff is storing up trouble for business, management and accountancy in universities. Business schools fear that mass retirement, coupled with a growing reliance on contract and...
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Vitamin pills are a waste of money Vitamin pills are a waste of money and have no effect in combating disease, cancer or any other illness, while wider use of cholesterol-lowering drugs would reduce...
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Cutting edge: When medicine is a risky business
One in 15 acute medical admissions is medication-related but few of these are due to GP error, says Tony Avery. "First do no harm" is one of the most important ethical principles in medicine, and it...
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Prague
The prospect of university tuition fees has been knocked off the Czech political agenda in negotiations to form a governing coalition.
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Full head(s) of steam
The Diary would like to know: what do you call a train-load of vice-chancellors? Suggestions to arrive in time for September's jaunt to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, please.
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Australian professor told 'pass us or die'
Police in Australia's Northern Territory are investigating threats against a university professor who was warned he would be decapitated if students failed an English language examination. Greg Hill...
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Too few black staff in FE
An equality watchdog has called for immediate action to tackle institutionalised racism in further education, writes Tony Tysome. Only four out of 500 colleges have black principals, and black staff...
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Media serves double fault
Over-zealous and sometimes critical attention from the media could damage the chances of some of Britain's sporting hopes, a leading psychologist has warned. Media coverage in the run-up to an event...
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'No fee, no degree' threat
A record number of students will be prevented from graduating this summer as universities introduce tough sanctions in response to non-payment of tuition fees. A snapshot survey by The THES this week...
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The train on platform 1 is not posh enough
Universities UK is planning to charter train carriages to transport vice-chancellors to their annual residential meeting this September because the only public trains available do not have first-...