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Rise in first-class females
* More women gained first-class degrees in 1999, but the gap grew between them and the men who dominate the top grade. Some 7.2 per cent of women attained a first-class degree in 1999, compared with...
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CVCP board approves QAA proposals
* Universities' teaching quality will be judged in just two categories under a simplified inspection regime. The board of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals unanimously approved Quality...
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Research programme attracts HE projects
* Ninety-three applications for projects totalling Pounds 60 million have been submitted for the Economic and Social Research Council's Pounds 8.5 million teaching and learning research programme....
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Academics head meningitis study
* The largest study on the carriage of the bacteria responsible for meningitis in young people is to be carried out by experts from the universities of Oxford and Nottingham, and Imperial College,...
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Contracts bring ballot on strike action
* The Educational Institute of Scotland is balloting members on strike action after the announcement of new contracts said by management to offer "efficiency, flexibility and fairness". The...
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Bristol is legal firms' top hunting ground
* Bristol University is the favourite source of law graduates for the United Kingdom's largest law firms, according to a survey out later this month. It beats Oxford and Cambridge for the first time...
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Keele raises Pounds 55 million for campus
* Keele University has struck a private finance deal to raise more than Pounds 55 million to improve student accommodation. The cash comes from bonds that will be issued by a separate company,...
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Climate could suffer in volcanic winter
* Supervolcanoes pose a natural threat to climate, dwarfing that of man-made effects, MPs were warned this week. A "volcanic winter" caused by a major eruption could upset the climate for years,...
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Welsh transform post-16 education
* The Welsh Assembly's education and training secretary, Tom Middlehurst, has confirmed plans for reform of Wales's post-16 sector. The assembly's post-16 committee has endorsed plans proposed by the...
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Manchester helps locate Mars probe
* Radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank have joined the hunt for the Mars Polar Lander. The Manchester University experts are to turn their 76m antenna towards the planet to listen for signals from Nasa'...
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Cutting edge
Forget fortress mentality, the way to keep out hackers is to increase the speed of detection and reaction to system intrusion. How many computer hackers can fit on the head of a pin? Can bin Laden...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH www.ma.hw.ac.uk/RSE BP/RSE Research...
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Students advise on aid to E. Europe
PRISTINA Europe's students are playing a key role at the highest level in drawing up plans to aid the growth of higher education in Kosovo and other parts of southeastern Europe. Proposals from the...
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Brits at risk in Malaysian market
KUALA LUMPUR British universities are getting their fingers burned by dabbling "naively" in Malaysia's unregulated and rapidly expanding private higher education sector. Experts in Kuala Lumpur have...