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Bush announces increase in research spending United States president George W. Bush's 2002 budget proposal increases spending on federally financed basic research by 6 per cent but spending on global...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian According to a National Union of Students survey published today, the large-scale privatisation of university residences is hitting student pockets hard. Unequal internet access for...
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Synchrotron Radiation Source: access to beam time
Deadline: 11/05/2001
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Project Grants
Deadline: 18/05/2001
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Latest international news
Muslims denounce women's football in Kuwait Kuwait University is under pressure to cancel a women's football tournament due to take place today after the Muslim Brotherhood denounced it as a...
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Latest UK news
Physics head quits over job losses The head of physics at Queen Mary, University of London, has quit in protest against job losses in the department. Peter Clegg resigned after four senior staff...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The University of Cambridge again tops the FT 's "employer-oriented" league table of UK universities. (Weekend 7/8 April) Although the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have a...
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UK degrees top tickets to jobs market
British universities produce some of the most employable graduates in Europe, according to a range of studies published this week. The findings support claims that higher education drives the...
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Next week
NEWS Educational research: how a national strategy caused uproar. FEATURES One in four South African students is estimated to be HIV positive. How are universities tackling the crisis? BOOKS Raymond...
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For the record
IT is the student's favourite A quarter of undergraduates want to work in IT or the internet - but less than 1 per cent want a career in education. When website ukplacements.com asked 10,000 students...
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MIT puts most of its course content online
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that it is placing virtually all its course content online. Lecture notes, reading lists, assignments and course outlines will all be available...
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Gang of five plans to escape QAA grip
Five elite universities have joined the London School of Economics in developing plans to break free from Quality Assurance Agency scrutiny. University College London and the universities of Oxford,...
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Walkout looms as pay talks founder
Further education college lecturers are to ballot for a national strike next month after pay talks this week failed to produce an agreement with employers. At the sector's National Joint Forum...
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Welsh urge review of 'deplorable' cash quota
The Welsh Assembly has called for an urgent review of higher education funding following an outcry from universities over the prospect of cuts, writes Tony Tysome. Jane Davidson, the assembly's...
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Floud pitches for funding in election run-up
Vice-chancellors set out their general election stall this week by highlighting the need for investment in the United Kingdom's value-for-money higher education system. Roderick Floud, provost of...