Cutting edge
A great Leonid display comes but once every 33 years, lighting up the lives of amateur astronomers everywhere This week's Leonid meteor shower was one of the most eagerly awaited astronomical events...
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Uni backs student in fight for job
The University of Northumbria has welcomed a ruling from the European Court of Justice that has backed one of its post- graduates in her fight to have her application for a post in Madrid's Prado art...
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Task force acts to halt divide
PARIS The THES reports on two conferences with one agenda - global learning A task force set up by Unesco and the World Bank to map the future of the university sector in the developing world will...
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Heads plan to make knowledge a common goal
DURBAN The THES reports on two conferences with one agenda - global learning More than a dozen Commonwealth education and training organisations pledged to work together to place education at the...
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Poor prospects fuel drop-outs
Male students from regions with high unemployment are more likely to drop out of university before finishing their courses than those from more affluent areas, according to new research. The findings...
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Lower classes miss out on expanded HE
The mass expansion of higher education in Scotland has benefited the middle classes much more than those from poorer backgrounds, according to a survey of Scottish school-leavers. Those whose fathers...
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Pounds 5 million pledged for adult students
* Some Pounds 5 million will be set aside by the Higher Education Funding Council for England next year to pay for more than 5,000 part-time adult students who are University for Industry learners....
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Nasa names probes after Polar explorers
(Photograph) - Polar explorers Amundsen and Scott (below) are being honoured by the American space agency Nasa, which has named its two Deep Space 2 microprobes after them. The vessels are due to...
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Natural history boffins to be put on show
A Pounds million project to bring Natural History Museum scientists into the public eye was unveiled on Tuesday. The Darwin Centre, a modern, eight-storey block to be constructed alongside the...
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Mature learners given greater library access
More than 50 higher education institutions have joined forces to enable part-time, distance and placement students to borrow from libraries near to where they live or work. The scheme, UK Libraries...
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Scots in talks with US college over institute
A Scottish development consortium has approached the University of Michigan to help create an engineering skills institute in the redundant naval base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth. Gavin Masterton...
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Cardiff University makes friends in China
Cardiff University and the Chinese government have launched a new fellowship scheme that will allow Chinese academics to undertake research at Cardiff. It was unveiled during a visit to China by...
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HIV programme receives Pounds 1 million
A five-year programme to devise ways to boost the immune system to fight HIV infection has been backed by a Pounds 1 million grant from the Wellcome Trust. A team of immunologists led by Rodney...
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Staff go slow over pay at Manchester
Manchester University was hit by industrial action on Tuesday as members of the administrative and clerical union Unison protested about pay. A union spokeswoman said members would now be working to...
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Sound design
(Photograph) - design: a groundbreaking acoustic guitar made from plastic instead of wood has been designed and built by Owain Pledgley, a Loughborough University PhD student. The guitar's...