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John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week If agricultural history deserves a higher profile, then Sussex University's Alun Howkins is providing it. In the final...
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Dead poet's propriety
Having spent his life opposing the 'fence of ownership', 19th-century poet John Clare is now at the centre ofa copyright spat. Jennifer Wallace reports on this ironic twist of fate A poet is a...
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New job, new challenge, New Zealand
In the fourth of a series on opportunities abroad, law professor Stephen Todd explains why New Zealand offers the kind of challenges, academic and environmental, that he could never hope to find in...
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MRC gives Pounds 30 million injection
The Medical Research Council has announced a record annual increase of Pounds 30 million for research into health and medicine. Among those to benefit is a Pounds 7.5 million initiative aimed at...
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Blunkett demands inquiry into Cricklade
Education secretary David Blunkett has invoked special powers for the first time to order an immediate investigation into mismanagement at Cricklade College, writes Phil Baty. Mr Blunkett has ordered...
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Science needs clarity on intellectual property
University research is the "lifeblood" of the United Kingdom's biotechnology sector, but researchers are hampered by uncertainty over the ownership of the intellectual property they generate,...
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Pay protest aims to hit pupils
The Association of University Teachers Scotland this week pressed the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee to investigate the academic pay crisis behind next week's...
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Shop-floor art
(Photograph) - Shop-floor art: Maria McCavana, a student at Glasgow School of Art (pictured with John McFadden, outgoing president of Unison), unveils her three-part wall-hanging, commissioned by the...
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Database set to boost South Africa's crime fight
DURBAN South Africa is notorious for its lawlessness - more than 20,000 people die violently from crime each year in a land with a murder rate nine times the global average. Now the fight against...
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College gambling under scrutiny
BOSTON A US congressional commission has recommended banning gambling on college and amateur sports because of scandals involving student gamblers and athletes. The commission also proposed raising...
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Renewal hangs on fragile truce
PRISTINA Ethnic hatred simmers beneath efforts to reconstruct the University of Pristina An independent international rector to lead the University of Pristina into its uncertain future and a...
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Spin will protect Scottish postgrads
The latest by-product of political devolution north of the border is a network that aims to improve the status of postgraduate students, writes Olga Wojtas. A meeting of postgraduate delegates, held...
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Demand for health checks after asbestos dust scare
Hundreds of staff and students at Cardiff University could have been exposed to potentially lethal asbestos dust throughout the past five years, trade union Unison said this week. The university last...
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Strike threat as Hull cuts costs
Hull University is facing industrial action this winter after announcing plans to make 110 out of a total of 142 cleaners redundant to cut costs. A university spokeswoman said the move was...
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Why choose a life on ocean waves?
Jennifer Currie reports on why so many students apply to join University Royal Naval Units. Joining a university society that expressly forbids drinking games, embarrassing forfeits and other...