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Nasty surprise for knight Sir Ian Kennedy, who was knighted in the new year’s honours, has lost his job as professor of health law, ethics and policy at University College London. Sir Ian had secured...
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Scientific citations
And now for the results of The THES 's 2001 celebrity scientist competition. The rough-and-ready rankings are based on the total number of direct quotations of at least one sentence published in...
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Peer in running for v-c
Rumours that Lord Browne is a candidate to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge gained strength last week when he was named in the Cambridge University Reporter . The "people's...
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Lifting cap may exclude more
One of the first victims of widening participation may be social inclusion, says Alex Price. Higher education has never had such a high profile. The government's plan to achieve a 50 per cent...
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Cooperate to contend
Research collaboration in Europe could be the way to compete with the US, says Ian Halliday. It seems appropriate in the week after the research assessment exercise results to turn from a domestic...
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Ministers favour RAE elite
Researchers still do not know how much funding they will receive next year. A compromise reached by funding chiefs last week has pleased no one, while the government has conceded that the top...
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Oxbridge exploits league loopholes
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge boosted their standing in some research assessment exercise league tables through special treatment, writes Alison Goddard. Research-active college staff at...
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For the record
Sainsbury touts UK's latest brain gains Science minister Lord Sainsbury has announced the latest batch of scientists joining the brain gain into Britain. The Institute of Ophthalmology, part of...
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Next issue
News Future shock? What will universities look like in 2010? The tots on their way to university Features Can the euro make Britons more European? Anthropologist Willem Wolters looks at how currency...
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'Tis the season to be wary
Christmas may be a time of giving but at least one university has had to issue rules for staff who accept gifts from students amid concerns that they could be construed as bribes to bolster results....
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Rethink on Scots RAE funding
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council will hold a special meeting on January 11 to draw up its funding advice to ministers. But there is speculation that there will be no final decision until...
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Bradford may lose its 5* department
Bradford University's first 5* in the research assessment exercise has been awarded to a department that is facing the axe, writes Alison Utley. The department of European studies has been struggling...
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Cash forecast causes alarm
English universities and colleges will almost break even next year but only by further increasing student-to-staff ratios, according to financial forecasts published this week. The sector as a whole...
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DoH chief: we've met our cancer challenge
Government spending on cancer research is nearing, and may have exceeded, that of charities. Sir John Pattison, director of research, analysis and information at the Department of Health and former...
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Oxford staff have to wait for weighting
Oxford University's bid to award a pay rise to all its staff has been turned down by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The decision has angered trade unions. Malcolm Keight, assistant...