Bad scholarship or the wrong kind of politics?
The firing of an academic has thrown the spotlight on freedom of expression in the US. Jon Marcus reports. If American academics were looking for the perfect representative around which to construct...
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Private funding of education on the up
The use of private funding in education has risen substantially around the world, according to a report by the US-based Institute for Higher Education Policy. According to the report, private finance...
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Protest at budget cap on security research
Three US university associations have protested at proposals to cap research expenses for universities undertaking work for the Department of Defense. The presidents of the Association of American...
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Taser review sparked by stunned student
A US university is set to restrict the use of stun guns by its campus police after a review into an incident where a student was shot after refusing to show his identity card. Norman Abrams, who was...
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Obesity problems haunt mortuaries
Australian pathologists have warned that increases in obesity may mean that mortuaries have to be redesigned to accommodate larger bodies. A study by pathologists at Adelaide University of the body...
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Legacy launches nursing school
A US university has received £50 million to start a nursing school. The donation to University of California, Davis, is believed to be the largest gift ever made to nursing education as well as the...
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Finnish study queries anorexia figures
The level of anorexia among young women may be far higher than previously thought, a Finnish study suggests. In data from Helsinki University, anorexia occurs at a rate equivalent to 0 cases per 100,...
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Loans probe looks at sports schemes
An investigation into corruption in US student loans has taken a fresh twist with college sports schemes now under suspicion. Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general of New York, is investigating whether...
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Drink-drive chips set to tackle disease
Technology created to catch drink-drivers will be used by Australian scientists to develop new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease. Sensor chips used in breathalysers will...
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Calcium may help to prevent pre-eclampsia
Calcium could help pregnant women to reduce the risk of developing pre eclampsia, a study suggests. Academics at the University of the Witwatersrand and University of Fort Hare in South Africa, Leeds...
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The stalked, the humiliated and the YouTubed
It was brave of David Harker to speak about his ordeal at the hands of a female student stalker (page 2). Thankfully, it is not an experience most people working in academe will have shared. But...
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Every nugget of quality deserves our attention
Universities must ensure that Government recognises and rewards the best research wherever it is found, says Paul Wellings. It is a disturbing thought that, for the non-science units of assessment,...
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'We are intending to give degrees to students who can't get a C at GCSE in maths and English. Why?'
I am writing this a week before the A-level results. As is now traditional, Government ministers and others with a vested interest in current arrangements have been getting their retaliation in first...
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Proof of the PhD is not in the reading
The purpose of the 21st- century doctoral degree has changed, says Alistair McCulloch. Two research students are studying for PhDs under the same supervisor. Both are preparing to submit. One asks a...
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Enough to drive you crazy
Staff at the University of Central Lancashire who forked out for an annual staff parking permit were less than happy with a recent missive from UCL transport services manager Fiona Baynton-Roberts....