Puzzle-solver could win $1 million prize
A researcher from Southampton University says he has solved a question that has troubled mathematicians for a century. Martin Dunwoody has submitted his proof of Poincare's Conjecture. If correct, he...
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Electronic books 'will be in huge demand'
Lord Stevenson, chairman of Pearson plc, told a conference this week that the "book is here to stay" and predicted a bright future for companion websites. The conference, "Higher Education and...
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Singing Ron cuts disc for charity
Ron Lorimer, a store technician at Dundee University's School of Life Sciences, infamous for singing while he works, has cut a CD of classic tracks, backed by bass guitarist and PhD student Alex...
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Correction
David Paton, who featured in a THES story about university economists finding a way to beat bookmakers (March 29) is senior lecturer in industrial economics at Nottingham University Business School,...
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Part-time numbers growing
More and more people are studying part time, according to data released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Full-time first-degree students now make up less than half of the student...
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Colleges in clash with LSC leader
College heads have again clashed with John Harwood, chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council, this time in a dispute over a proposed national learner survey. Mr Harwood has accused the...
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Race for NUS presidency is still wide open
Candidates for the National Union of Students' presidential elections next Tuesday have everything to play for since the dominant issue of student funding remains unresolved. Voters at the union's...
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Science forced to cut millions
Research councils will have to make millions of pounds in cutbacks after the imposition of new government accounting techniques. The amended rules rigidly separate capital and resource budgets that...
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V-cs told to focus on links to community
Regional collaboration and rewarding links with business and the community are likely to be the main focus of a strategic plan being developed by funding chiefs. The plan will be informed by a...
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Science 'should unite'
An independent Europe-wide body is needed to oversee the planning and construction of large science facilities. Delegates at this week's Institute of Physics annual congress, which met in Brighton,...
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Journal clarifies its reviewing system after contributor challenges editor
An academic journal has been persuaded to review its editorial policy after a contributor complained that it was misleadingly claiming to be peer-reviewed. Andrea Sabbadini, editor of Psychoanalysis...
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'Policies flawed by sexy papers'
The editorial policies of the two most prestigious scientific journals - Nature and Science - have been criticised by scientists. Experts are asking whether competition between the two is...
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What's up doc? A lack of men
Medical schools should positively discriminate in favour of male students to boost their numbers and avert a staffing crisis, a senior medic said this week. The British Medical Association medical...
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UHI: delay is costing us £2m in shortfall
The UHI Millennium Institute says it is suffering a shortfall of at least £2 million compared with the grant it would win if it were funded on the same basis as other Scottish higher education...
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£800,000 to secure copyright licence is 'money well spent' for UUK
Universities have won the copyright licence they wanted at the end of a tribunal believed to have cost almost £2 million. Sol Picciotto, a member of the Universities UK negotiating team and head of...