Funding by numbers provokes Greek university fury
Greek university chiefs have reacted angrily to education secretary George Papandreou's suggestion that future funding of universities should be based on student numbers and that teaching staff be...
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Durham revamps Stockton venture
Students enrolling at University College, Stockton, this year will be the first to emerge with University of Durham instead of joint Durham/Teesside degrees. This marks the end of a collaboration...
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Faraday four get cash
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has revealed details of a Pounds 20 million plan to strengthen research ties between industry and academia. The idea is to create four "Faraday...
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Star thieves
Strathclyde Police are investigating the theft of equipment from Glasgow University. Extraordinary, really, that the academics failed to warn the police in advance, since according to Strathclyde's...
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THES record sales
The circulation of The THES in January-June 1996 averaged ,374 copies per issue, 2.9 per cent more than for the same period in 1995 and the highest in the paper's history, according to figures just...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
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Genes means coming clean
If you want a quiet life, do not do research into the genetics of behaviour. If you do, be prepared to participate in the noisy life that will follow. The same rule applies to the funders of such...
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Head to head
(Photograph) - Head to head: Russell Bates, a student at Exeter University, admires the Henry Moore sculpture, "Reclining Collected Forms", which has gone on show at the university. The work, created...
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Have cash, but can't spend it
Universities could be heaping up a multi-million pound "cash mountain" because funding regulations put them off spending the money, a leading vice chancellor warned this week. Big financial reserves...
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Hail the local hi-tech hero
New technology opens up a host of intriguing prospects such as home banking, video on demand - and a University of the Highlands and Islands. The UHI is conceived as a high-tech network of the region...
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Alternative tweetments lined up for pets
Two Canadian researchers are widening the scope of veterinary medicine by putting the practice of alternative medicine for animals under scientific scrutiny. At the University of Guelph's Ontario...
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Marvell idea draws hostile fire
Academic life's capacity for inducing controversy over the unlikeliest subjects was reasserted when a conference on the poet Andrew Marvell concluded abruptly and in mild disorder. The three-day...
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Turn Coats
Alumnus to be proud of No. 59 is textile multimillionaire Sir David Alliance, whose forthcoming honorary doctorate in law from Liverpool University - following earlier awards from Heriot-Watt, UMIST...
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Gene study denied grant
Controversial research into the genetics of mental ability has been delayed for at least nine months after the Medical Research Council declined to award it a grant in its latest round. The research...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...