Let's bring back the weekend
Michael White says it's time we all took a stand against the long-hours culture. For the past two decades, a long-hours culture has pervaded most areas of working life in Britain, including higher...
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Cheater's charter
In a society that has commodified knowledge, plagiarism is no big deal, argues Frank Furedi. Last month, the University of Virginia was stunned to discover that 122 students in its introductory...
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Why we think new technology requires an ethical shift
In their general election campaigns, all of the major political parties proceeded on the assumption that a modernising UK economy would embrace ever more technological innovation. Commercial...
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Could we be Europan?
Julian Hiscox reports on a search for life a billion kilometres away under 30km of ice. The origin of life poses one of the most vexing questions in modern biology. While great strides have been...
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Cutting edge: Ben Shelton
Exposing the infidelity of fly catchers has allowed scientists to catch natural selection in the species juggling act. In the face of the cold accounting of natural selection, few things would seem...
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Narrow targets could expand results
Boris Segerstahl looks at ways in which European research universities can compete globally. Europe's research universities have entered a new era of competition and challenges as fresh demands are...
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Toddler is raring to find feet
A less than warm welcome has not deterred TechBC, Canada's first high-tech university. Philip Fine meets a precocious two-year-old. Dianne Cyr is trying hard to think of some incident that could...
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US brain drain over stem cells
The British brain drain may be about to be reversed in human stem-cell research. Several American scientists are believed to be pursuing moves to the United Kingdom to take advantage of supportive...
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Language cuts 'harm community access'
New universities in London that are cutting language degrees because of a lack of demand have been warned that they are harming access for their local communities, writes Cherry Canovan. Michael...
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Medics lured to the City
Debt-ridden medical students are being tempted to abandon a career in health for jobs in the City, student leaders are warning. The British Medical Association is worried that the problem could...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The Cancer Genome Project will ask the pharmaceutical industry to cooperate with a £30 million project to explore the underpinnings of cancer. Transplants of the larynx are likely to...
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Higher education appointments
University of Leeds Roger Gair has been appointed to the post of University Secretary. He was previously the University Deputy Secretary. Andrew Parkinson has been appointed to the new post of...
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Higher education awards
UMIST Mick Marchinton , professor in the school of management (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) has been advanced to companionship of the Chartered Institute of Personnel...
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Job losses feared as Glasgow forecasts £3m deficit
The threat of job cuts has re-emerged at Glasgow University less than three years after it shed hundreds of posts to combat an impending deficit. An internal audit predicts a £3 million shortfall by...
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Slick move for science
Meanwhile, back in Canada: the College of the North Atlantic, in St John's, Newfoundland, has struck oil. About 1,154 barrels of an oil-and-water mixture, spilt accidentally 25 years ago, was...