Strong brand is key to recruitment
Selling a strong brand is key to university success in recruiting students, particularly postgraduates, a report says. The reputation of an institution and its ability to sell this image to potential...
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Caution kills science teaching, MPs hear
Science's falling popularity is due in part to overcautious school teachers shielding their pupils from laboratory work, MPs heard this week. Giving evidence to the Commons science and technology...
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Bosses must support training
The government should use a "carrot-and-stick" approach to persuade employers to support training as part of a sustained effort to attract more people into learning, the Learning and Skills...
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AUT fights plan to link staff pay to job ratings
Ranking every job in every university on a seniority scale of one to 1,000 could lead to the collapse of the national bargaining system, lecturers' leaders have warned. The Association of University...
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Trust resubmits genome site bid
The Wellcome Trust has resubmitted its failed application to extend its genome campus at Hinxton Hall, Cambridge. The scaled-down proposal would see a development just over half the size of the...
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Animators lack digital know-how
Universities' failure to train students in software packages used in the animation and special-effects industry is threatening their ability to find jobs when they graduate. The tension between...
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France reforms training of health professionals
Trainee nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and pharmacists will study alongside medical students following reforms that will progressively introduce a common first year of studies for all health...
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Research institute to probe rare diseases
France has a new institute to develop research into thousands of diseases, each of which affects only a few people, writes Jane Marshall. The institute "without walls" was launched by research...
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Calls for Turkish minister to resign
Turkey's education minister is to be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry over allegations of discrimination against religious students at the country's universities. A motion centres on a ban on...
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Germany 'needs graduates'
Germany is producing too few university graduates to manage the transition to a knowledge-based service economy, according to a report by the influential German Institute for Economics (IW). In 1998...
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Makerere denies Gaddafi a degree
A standoff between state and academia in Uganda over a proposed honorary degree for Muammar Gaddafi has ended with a rebuff for the Libyan president from Makerere University's senate. Ugandan...
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Germans bid to rebuild Kabul
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...
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McGill forms venture company to fund spin-offs
McGill University has formed a private company with neighbouring universities and hospitals to get more discoveries out into the marketplace. McGill, Universite de Sherbrooke, their research...
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South Korea to boost female faculty numbers
South Korea's national and private universities will be expected to fill at least 20 per cent of faculty posts with female professors under equal employment policies to be implemented this July....
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In the news: Mike Dexter
Mike Dexter has turned down a two-year extension as director of the Wellcome Trust, and he will step down at the end of his five-year appointment next March. His directorship has been a busy time for...