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Intelligent design creeps on to courses
Creationism will be 'compulsory', report Jessica Shepherd and Steve Farrar Creationism - the belief that the biblical story of creation is scientific fact - is beginning to make inroads into the...
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'I saw the limits of the power of the UN. reports I wrote were "sanitised"'
After a stint at the UN, Alex Schmid is back in academe, to speak his mind and to focus on terrorism studies The bulwark of academic freedom has brought an internationally known scholar on terrorism...
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On the move...
* Robert Gordon University has awarded professorships to: Donald Cairns , former associate head of the School of Pharmacy; and David Gray , reader at the Centre for Transport Policy. It awarded...
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Staff fear deal will cost jobs
UCU members at Sussex are worried that the university will sacrifice posts to fund the 13.1% pay rise, report Phil Baty and Chloe Stothart Sussex University this week became the first institution to...
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'No' campaign gains momentum even as docking threat subsides
The "vote no" campaign against the pay deal brokered between union leaders and employers gained in strength this week as ballot papers were issued to University and College Union members across the...
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UCU votes to fight Leeds downgrades
Union members at Leeds University this week voted unanimously to take industrial action over the downgrading of 100 administrators' jobs, writes Anna Fazackerley. The Leeds branch of the University...
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OU goes for global presence
The Open University is seeking to become a global online university by building new partnerships at home and abroad. In a major document called OU Futures , the university, which already has 40,000...
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Sainsbury: no right to stay axe
Lord Sainsbury outraged MPs this week by declaring that there should be no government or funding council intervention to prevent vice-chancellors from axeing science departments. Two years ago,...
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Next week
NIALL FERGUSON War of the World : not so much a right-wing rant as postmodern history in the mainstream liberal tradition? Rana Mitter reviews the TV series Alex Danchev reviews the book
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MPs to hold RAE inquiry
The Commons Education Select Committee is to hold an inquiry on the research assessment exercise. Barry Sheerman, committee chairman, said MPs would question Education Secretary Alan Johnson on July...
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Book some expert help
Academics should capitalise on librarians' expertise to help foster a research culture among students, says Martin Wolf. Mr Wolf, social sciences librarian at Warwick University, told this week's...
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Open access online
The Royal Society this week launched a trial open-access journal service that will let people read new scientific papers free of charge on the web. The service, EXiS Open Choice, will charge authors...
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Part-timers' fees plan
Welsh universities should be allowed to charge variable fees for part-time courses, a review of part-time study concluded. But Welsh institutions should receive extra public funding to help them keep...
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'Scrap classifications'
Ian Gibson, former chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, this week called for the abolition of degree classifications. In a lecture at Anglia Ruskin University, the Labour MP said...