Threat to global outlook
PRESSURE to publish and the limited recognition given to work on international projects is forcing British academics to consider halting their international activities, according to the international...
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Tax fears alarm scientists
SCIENTISTS are being caused "considerable anxiety" by proposals that could force non-profit making research and technology organisations to pay corporation tax, writes Julia Hinde. Liberal Democrat...
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Battle gives no promises
THE GOVERNMENT'S premier technology transfer scheme is to be extended beyond universities, but there are no assurances of additional money for major expansion. Science minister John Battle said that...
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Academy gets down to business
FIRST steps towards setting up a University for Industry were taken this week with the appointment of an advisory group from education and business. The 13-strong group, which held its first meeting...
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Ladybird ladybird
(Photograph) - Ladybird ladybird: Postgraduate Ben Raymond is a York University researcher investigating whether ladybirds find their aphid prey by smell.
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Fact file
* 78.5 per cent of the 1.72 million students in the UK are undergraduates * Overseas students in the UK number 196,346, comprising 11.4 per cent of the total * 43.5 per cent of UK first-year, full-...
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Sticking point
One of the things that inspired the new Institute of Learning and Teaching was a very sticky statistic. Dearing committee members found the higher education sector spent less than 1 per cent of its...
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FILTHE joke
The new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is affectionately known as "quacker, but what of Sir Ron's proposed Institute for Learning and Teaching in higher education? Would-be fellows...
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Ministers pull plug on college fraud unit
Higher education's only national organisation fighting admissions fraud is facing the withdrawal of "essential" financial support from the Department for Education and Employment. The Universities...
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Pounds 300m for good measure
The National Physical Laboratory, the nation's guarantor of measurements, looks set to be rebuilt with the help of a Pounds 300 million Private Finance Initiative scheme. Founded in 1900, NPL ensures...
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Cern wins US jackpot
Hundreds of millions of dollars for the world's largest particle-smashing experiment is set to pour into Europe from the United States after months of uncertainty. According to Cern in Geneva, where...
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Fifth framework research programme
The European Commission has proposed boosting its forthcoming fifth framework research programme with a budget of Ecu 16.3 billion (Pounds 10.7 billion), writes Olga Wojtas. The proposed budget for...
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Fees threaten tough era
RUTHLESS management practices from the private sector could come into higher education with the Goverment's decision to charge students fees. Education lawyers are warning institutions to crack down...
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Poorer students may be left in cold
A MEMBER of the Dearing committee has called on the Government to back its tuition fees plan with figures amid claims that the proposal may hold no benefits for poorer students. Diana Laurillard, a...
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Paper chase
(Photograph) - Paper chase: Edinburgh University has acquired the papers of its former student Norman MacCaig, one of the greatest Scottish poets of the 20th century, with the help of Pounds 67,800...