Swansea seeks title
Swansea Institute is to seek permission to use the "university" title, after gaining powers to award its own taught degrees. "After a year-long and rigorous inspection from the Quality Assurance...
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A problem of image
Further education's image problem as the "Cinderella sector" has been confirmed by research. An Ipsos-MORI survey of employers and education professionals commissioned by the Learning and Skills...
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Weiss gong for Wright
Eric Wright, research dean of Dundee University's medical school, has just been awarded the prestigious Weiss Medal at the International Congress of Radiation Research in San Francisco. Weiss...
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Research risks not addressed
Fieldwork brings a range of dangers, but targeted support for academics is patchy. Rebecca Attwood reports "On one occasion I found myself with a gun held to my head," said social anthropologist...
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'Not all harm faced is physical'
Mick Bloor has had his fair share of dangerous encounters. Currently professorial research fellow at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University, he studied male prostitution on Glasgow...
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Teachers opt for school
Universities are training a declining proportion of the UK's schoolteachers, a new analysis reveals, as they lose ground to on-the-job training schemes. Figures in a new report from the Centre for...
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Cheers and jeers for league table
A new university league table provoked mixed reactions this week - ranging from fury to delight, writes Rebecca Attwood. The UK University Guide ranks 113 institutions on measures from research...
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Net gains for justice
The internet is helping to speed up international support for campaigns concerned with social justice and climate change and is contributing to changes in governance, according to researchers. A new...
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Paisley, Bell merge
Paisley University and Bell College merged this week to create Scotland's largest modern university. The university will have more than 18,000 students and Hamilton and Paisley. It has a planned...
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Gillies, Petts take reins
London got two new vice-chancellors this week. Geoffrey Petts, an environmental research scientist, joined Westminster University. He said that he was looking forward to increasing the university's...
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LSE's Macnicol fêted
John Macnicol, a visiting professor at the social policy department at the London School of Economics, has been awarded the Social Policy Association's prize for best new publication in 2006-07 for...
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Mini adventure to Mars
Mars will be explored for conditions favourable for life with UK-developed micro-machine technology. A current Nasa mission represents the first chance for UK hardware, supplied by Imperial College...
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Young love celebrated
A musical work created by a De Montfort University academic, based on his parents' romance in war-torn Italy in 1944, has won international acclaim. John Young, reader in music technology at DMU...
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I'm a lumper, not a splitter, says Tyneside reinventor
Chris Brink, vice-chancellor, Newcastle University According to Chris Brink, some academics are "lumpers", putting things together, and some academics are "splitters", taking things apart. "I'm a...
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Rare condition makes faces forgettable
Australian academics are helping a woman discover why she cannot remember faces. The team at Queensland, Macquarie and La Trobe universities were approached by the woman, who cannot recognise people...