Metrics will kill diversity claim
Subject leaders warn new system will focus on 'safe' areas, stifling emerging ideas, says Anthea Lipsett Subject leaders have reacted angrily to sweeping reforms to the way university research is to...
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Hepi: funding reforms naive
Plans to reform the research councils' peer-review system for allocating grants could threaten the dual-support funding system, the Higher Education Policy Institute warned this week. Funding for UK...
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Research bodies fear DTI bid to siphon off £140m
Research councils fear that the Department of Trade and Industry will attempt to fill a hole in its coffers by clawing back £140 million that is already earmarked for research, it emerged this week....
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Monkey medicine
Intimidation of researchers involved in scientific experiments on monkeys is stifling recruitment into the field, a report says this week. The Weatherall report, on the use of non-human primates in...
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Solent appoints v-c
Southampton Solent University has confirmed that it has promoted Van Gore to become its vice-chancellor. Professor Gore, deputy vice-chancellor, will take up the role at the end of July 2007, when...
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Halifax campus plan
Halifax will get a new centre for higher education in a deal between Calderdale College and Leeds Metropolitan University. The two institutions this week signed a formal agreement to work together on...
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IT policy lacking
Nearly a third of further and higher education institutions in the UK do not have formalised policies governing staff access to information and communications technology, says a new report. The...
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Academy health review
The Higher Education Academy this week set up a new interdisciplinary special interest group for Public Health. The group said it would respond to the health service's growing needs for a range of...
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Conserving Cutty Sark
Greenwich University has confirmed its role in helping to conserve the Cutty Sark , the Victorian sailing ship docked near the university's historic campus. Researchers are using software predictions...
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Cambridge award
Cambridge University educationalist Tom Eason has been awarded the Promotion of International Education Award from the European Council of International Schools.
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UCU fears for collegiality
Union leaders worry that Birmingham restructure heralds loss of academic voice in governance, writes Chloe Stothart Lecturers' leaders claimed this week that academic collegiality was being eroded as...
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Hood to stay on if he loses
Oxford University's beleaguered vice-chancellor made a last-ditch effort this week to persuade academics to approve his controversial governance reforms, writes Jessica Shepherd. In a letter to each...
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Report details clash of interests
An investigation by the Charity Commission has detailed how Regent's College and the European Business School made inappropriate payments of hundreds of thousands of pounds to a firm run by the woman...
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Scientific circle's dry talk earns it a bar ban
Ever since the time of Aristotle, wine has played a supporting role in many academic discoveries. But one Brighton venue felt that scientists were not doing enough to uphold a noble tradition, writes...