Probe into what puts women off research
A consortium of funders, including all the research councils, the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, is to instigate an independent survey to investigate why women do not apply for grants in the same...
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Japanese flock to UK for science
The United Kingdom has emerged as the most popular destination in Europe for visiting Japanese scientists and engineers, according to a study highlighting the strength of research links between the...
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Astronomers reach for the stars - as distant learners
Engineers and technicians on Merseyside are among the first students to enrol on a new astronomy course offered by Liverpool John Moores University. By day, the staff build a robotic telescope for...
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Black out
(Photograph) - John Parkinson, director of science and mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University, a member of the UK eclipse co-ordinating group, has been touring Plymouth and Penzance in...
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UMIST spells out ethics policy after tobacco row
The university of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has drawn up an ethical policy following a row earlier this year over tobacco sponsorship. Registrar Paddy Stephenson said concerns...
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Trebles all round
Appointments at the European School of Business and Management, Swansea have "made a mockery" of the University of Wales's financial management, says the Association of University Teachers. Earlier...
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Readers reactions
Last week in The THES ... Andrew Oswald argued that British universitieswill follow the lead of the United States, whereacademics are paid according to subject. Highest salaries are for computing,...
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Dangerous enthusiasm of new boulton boss
In her enthusiasm to clean up Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education, new principal Christine Braddock is in danger of contravening the institution's rules of governance. Last week...
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New tricks for old dogs
People are living longer, and they want to learn. Phil Baty looks at the boom in Third Age education Over the next 30 years, the number of pensioners in the United Kingdom will increase by more than...
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Public pay scales hold despite revamps
National Health Service trusts, local authorities and government agencies have kept to national pay scales and uniform employment conditions, according to research published this week. This is...
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Cold comfort
Energy-efficient fridges are often nothing of the sort, say researchers at the University of Oxford. Two-thirds of appliances are made to seem more efficient than they are, say the researchers, who...
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Mama's boys and sex
A mother figure's influence on her son's sexual preference is so strong that a billy goat raised by a female sheep prefers ewes to nanny goats. Researchers led by Keith Kendrick at the Babraham...
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Bright idea
The best-ever images of four powerful quasars beyond our own galaxy have been captured by astronomers. Quasars are incredibly bright objects that are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes...
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In the news
Described as one of Sheffield's big-wig Labour MPs by a local councillor, Richard "Dick" Caborn, minister of state for the regions, regeneration and planning, is not an acolyte of the other great...
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Glittering prizes
Cherie Booth QC has been made chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. The university is also to confer honorary fellowships on Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the hospice movement, and Mary...