Axe over jobs
Up to 150 posts could be lost in research institutes allied to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council because of a planned Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries cut of...
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Simple begging
Researchers looking for money from the Medical Research Council must now include plans for explaining their work to lay people in their applications for grants. Researchers will also be able to apply...
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Top-up fees not ruled out by Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats' main policy decision-making body has given the go-ahead to a new further and higher education document that deliberately leaves the door open to the possibility of top-up fees...
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Axe and ye will be told
Was the disastrous capital allocation for universities in the last Budget a sin of omission rather than commission, to be blamed on the straightforward ignorance of Gillian Shephard, Education and...
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Medical schools set to scoop record investment
King's College London and the United Medical and Dental Schools are looking to clinch the biggest deal so far under the Government's Private Finance Initiative worth Pounds 125 million. The two...
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Flushed out
The Higher Education Quality Council apparently expected fewer than the 150 delegates who turned up for its annual SCOTCAT conference in Glasgow Caledonian University. Signs on the lavatory doors...
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Rugby matched
There was an extra touch of chemistry during Scotland's rugby performances at its Five Nations matches in Ireland last weekend. Scotland's team included Craig Joiner, a third-year chemical...
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Scots funding squeeze eases
Exhaustion with new initiatives in Scottish higher education has led to a slight easing of a tough funding round for the coming session. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has set out the...
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Book buying below mark
A weak pound and funding cuts have left Britain's leading Germanic studies institute struggling to buy textbooks this year. The University of London's Institute for Germanic Studies, which enjoys a...
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A business class for high-fliers
Scottish business education is set to benefit from a pioneering international management course aimed at business high-fliers. The Advanced Management Programme in Scotland was last week launched by...
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Imperial Russia rides again
Russia watchers should ensure that the name "Gennady Zyuganov" is in their computer spell-checkers. They will need it a lot in the next few months, and probably for several years to come. The...
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Dough beats merit in selection stakes
Economic realities are threatening the American ideal that even poor students who are bright enough and work hard can get into any college they desire. More expensive private universities are...
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Cranky calls poison Adelphi
In the latest twist in an extraordinary campus row, the wife of the president of Adelphi University in New York state has been accused of making anonymous phone calls to the head of a faculty union...
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Transit problem in the West Bank
When Palestinians went to the polls last week an estimated 12 per cent of the candidates in the West Bank were academics, including a special "academics" slate in the West Bank town of Ram Allah. The...
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Fly away patrons
In central and eastern Europe irritation is growing with western experts and consultants who jet in, tell people what they ought to be doing, and draw fat fees that can come to more for a few days'...