Forecast saves lives
A recently qualified PhD student has helped the Omani Government avert massive loss of life in a tropical storm. Juma Almaskari was a weather forecaster before coming to the UK to study atmospheric...
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A beeline for food
A bee's favourite colour can help influence how much food it gets from the flowers in its environment, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London. Nigel Raine and Lars Chittka,...
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Cancer plan attacked
Work-related cancers will claim thousands of lives each year for a further working generation as a result of the "shocking complacency" of the Government's health and safety watchdog, a new report is...
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United over conflict
The universities of Exeter, Cambridge and Queen's Belfast are to unite in a five-year project to help alleviate conflict. Using the examples of Belfast and Jerusalem, the study will examine cities in...
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Profile: Oona King
If anyone was destined to become the champion of a new research centre dedicated to improving community relations, then it surely must have been Oona King. The former Labour MP has just become chair...
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French reform plans on hold
France's new President has already had to compromise on his plans for university autonomy. Jane Marshall explains the objections that he faced During France's recent presidential election campaign,...
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World encompassed
Un report highlights desert threat Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an "environmental crisis of global proportions", large-scale migrations, and...
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My employer is holding me to ransom for RAE
Read the small print in your contract, warns Robert Cook. You may not be free to move as easily as you thought In May I was appointed to a chair at Sussex University. No need for congratulations -...
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Gary Day
Eventually academics catch up with what is happening in the real world. Or is it the other way round? Anyway, we like to think that while the media merely reacts to events, we reflect on them. And...
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We must sit around a single table
A sensible reform of the national pay system is urgently required, argues Alasdair Smith UK higher education faces serious choices about the future of the national pay system. Indeed, there is a real...
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Glasgow Met's bigger picture
A new university appears to have slipped below the Privy Council's radar. The AllMediaScotland website is advertising a lecturership in photography and digital imagery (£24,145- £31,247) at Glasgow...
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The other other place
And a metamorphosis for an existing university awaits, if John Randall, Tory MP for Uxbridge, gets his way. He complained in the Commons last Friday that nobody knows where Brunel University is. "I...
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Brave old world
Amid the excitement over the iPhone handset, Dundee University is offering a new perspective on those pre-internet days with a collection of forgotten communication and entertainment media from the...
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One mistake we made earlier
Students at Coventry University had a feeling of deja vu when they discovered that their latest online module test was identical to a "practice" paper that had been posted on Coventry's website. Paul...
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Make all see that deadline matters
Frustrated by slow reviewers, Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr suggest we get tough on tardiness and reward promptness Every researcher knows the experience: you send a manuscript in for review and it...