Hefce may axe postcode cash
Only a quarter of universities would get extra cash to widen participation under plans being developed by English funding chiefs. The idea is to provide outreach funding to all, but to concentrate...
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Union report shows Oxford inequalities Students from poorer Oxford colleges suffer academically compared with students at richer colleges, according to the Oxford University Student Union. They lose...
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British-led networks reach for nanotechnology's blue skies
Two British-led networks of scientists are bidding for millions of pounds of European funding to drive forward blue-skies research into nanotechnology. The aim is to spawn collaborative projects by...
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Huddersfield loses sex bias case
Huddersfield University sexually discriminated against lecturer Penelope Wolff when she was rejected for promotion by an all-male panel of deans who used a selection system that "lacked any rationale...
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Medics face untimely jobs axe
London medical schools are set to axe jobs despite government plans for the biggest single expansion in student doctor numbers in a generation. Guy's, King's and St Thomas's medical school, one of...
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Newby: 'libraries are key to targets'
Libraries and their ability to supply learning and teaching resources in unconventional settings will be vital for universities to meet expansion targets, according to Sir Howard Newby, chief...
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Podgorica
Forged degree certificates are being sold to obtain teaching posts in Montenegrin secondary schools, according to Vlajko Milicevic, who heads the country's fight against economic crimes.
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Paulin avoids charge
The Board of Deputies of British Jews will not prosecute poet and Oxford academic Tom Paulin for inciting racial hatred in alleged remarks he made about Jewish settlers to an Egyptian newspaper,...
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Whistleblowers: German MBA deflated
The University of Wales has ordered a thorough check of all publicity material produced by a private partner college in Germany, after investigations found that the partner had been making confusing...
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Analysis: Widening the gateway to higher plane
Colleges are being pushed to form links with higher education but is it an initiative too far for an already stretched sector, asks Tony Tysome City and Islington College acting principal Frank...
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AUT may boycott new RAE
Almost 50,000 lecturers may boycott any future research assessment exercise if funding chiefs fail to spell out in advance how the money will be allocated. After the outcry from lecturers, vice-...
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Ethical dilemma could delay FP6
Researchers have been told to carry on putting together proposals for the European Union's Sixth Research Framework Programme despite a row over ethics that is threatening to delay the programme....
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Research councils to present a united front
The seven research councils will present themselves as one from now on, although there is no likelihood of merger, according to John Taylor, the research councils' director-general, writes Caroline...
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Whistleblowers: Cambridge lecturer seeks judicial review
Cambridge University is back in the High Court next week, as campaigning history lecturer Gill Evans seeks a judicial review of the university's procedures for promoting academic staff. Dr Evans...
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Toronto settles in academic freedom battle
The University of Toronto has settled a lawsuit with a British drugs researcher who alleged that an employment offer was revoked because he asserted a link between antidepressants and suicide....