Fund for poor children 'better spent on grants'
The government's proposal for a £500 Child Trust Fund to help children from poor families get a better start in life has been condemned by a Warwick University economist as "a waste of money". The...
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Milk buying tops student rows
Students argue most about who used the milk and did not buy any more, according to a University of Abertay Dundee survey marking the launch of its hospitality management suite. The survey, to explore...
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Asian society attacks Oxford
Oxford University's Asian society is "deeply worried" about the university's attitude to race issues. Its view could be a blow for those trying to attract applicants from ethnic minorities. The...
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Bicycle made for two
Cambridge University vice-chancellor Sir Alex Broers (right) and university proctor Frank King inspect the lockers available at the university's new park-and-cycle scheme. Staff can park their cars...
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No insult when teed off
The evidence of Charles Jones, an English language specialist at the University of Edinburgh, secured justice last week for Glaswegian Kenneth Kinnaird. Mr Kinnaird was convicted of resisting arrest...
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Charts of darkness
Risky business, these statistics. Ten years ago, the Royal Society was riven by a row between scientists and social scientists over whether risk could be assessed objectively by statistical methods....
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Breaking the QAA code
The mission of the Quality Assurance Agency has always been clear: to promote public confidence in higher education. However, the agency has just realised that this means its reports need to be...
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People's peer Lord Loon
Aberdeenshire paper The Press and Journal is always keen to find the local angle, and allegedly reported the Titanic disaster under the headline "Northeast man drowns at sea". Its story on the people...
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Glittering prizes
The Institute of Biology , in London, has elected the following honorary fellows: Sir James Armour , formerly of the University of Glasgow; Derek Burke , former vice-chancellor of the University of...
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On the move
Hugh Begg , an independent consultant, has been appointed visiting professor in local economic development in the University of Abertay Dundee 's school of social and health sciences. The Kent...
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In the news: The laboratory mouse
The laboratory mouse has become the lifeblood of bioscience, staking its claim through a century of sacrifice. Even though the level of animal experimentation in the United Kingdom has halved in the...
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Don's Diary
Weekend one Arrive in Jinja, Uganda, with colleague Phil Johnson and 15 undergraduates for the first stage of a field class and development aid partnership with the National Teachers' College in...
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World view: the road to heaven or hell
Candidates for tenured professorships in France have 30 gruelling minutes to prove themselves worthy. Yochanan Altman watched the ordeal. The tall spectacled 31-year-old, pale and unshaven, sits...
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World watch
Caracas Academics and students at Venezuela's Central University were hurt as radical students fought with moderates seeking to end a month-long occupation over university reforms. Adis Ababa...
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Eyewitness: Kazakhstan's biological timebomb
Scientists at an agricultural research institute in Kazakhstan say that they have been sidelined by the ministries of agriculture and education since last summer when they revealed an outbreak of...