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Think-tank attacks 'regressive' funding policies Students should pay higher tuition fees and interest on their loans, according to the country’s leading Blairite think-tank. The Institute for Public...
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From today's UK papers
Doctor who warned on MMR forced out Andrew Wakefield, the specialist who first raised concerns about links between the MMR vaccine and bowel disease and autism, has been forced out of his job at the...
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Not past his sell-by date
Recently retired academic Roy Porter tells Christopher Wood why we - and his bank manager - can look forward to more books. When writing about the historian Roy Porter, the convention is to refer to...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
The textbook that changed my life is older than I am. In one way or another, it has always been with me. It follows me around. More to the point, I suppose, I follow it. In fact I inherited it - it...
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Keep this book to yourself
Peter Atkins is quietly impressed by an insider's guide to writing textbooks I cannot recommend any aspiring textbook author to buy this book: it is so good. Writing Successful Textbooks is a step-by...
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Netgazette
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS Research Councils Science and innovation minister, Lord Sainsbury, announced appointments to the councils as follows: Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research...
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Next week
News The importance of image. Features One hundred years of Nobel: we look back at a century of Nobel prizes and analyse what it takes to become a laureate. Books Brendan O'Leary admires Amnesty...
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Clinical chairs staying empty
More than one in seven clinical chairs is empty, the Council of Heads of Medical Schools' first comprehensive survey of medical school vacancies has shown. Michael Powell, executive secretary of the...
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Cambridge officers under fire for Capsa fiasco
Two of Cambridge University's most senior managers should be sacked unless they can explain their role in the disastrous implementation of a £9 million financial system, the university's internal...
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Investing in success puts elites in red
Elite research universities are operating at a loss and will suffer worse shortfalls if cash they were expecting from the research assessment exercise fails to materialise next year. Many of the...
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For the record
Sally Hunt set to be next AUT secretary Sally Hunt is set to be the next general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, after winning the backing of the union's executive committee as...
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AS-level failures add up to disaster
Up to 60 university departments that rely on students with maths A levels could be closed because of a huge drop in applications. Early indications are that 20 per cent fewer students will sit A-...
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Alexander's key to success
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, has emphasised that the country's economic success depends on close links between industry and tertiary education. Her address...