Minister for cool parties tells kids: aim high
Bill Rammell is proud to take his widening-participation mission to working-class pupils, reports Steve Farrar The schoolchildren loll on their silver beanbags, staring warily up at the man who has...
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Government study warns fees will hit four-year courses
Top-up fees will deter students from applying to four-year undergraduate degree courses in science, languages and engineering, a Government-commissioned study has warned. Students will shun the...
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Oxbridge joins global net
Oxford and Cambridge universities have joined the International Alliance of Research Universities, a global network of research-intensive universities that was launched at an inaugural meeting in...
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Scots hold fire on pay
Officials of the Educational Institute of Scotland have decided not to hold a strike ballot after initial talks between unions and university employers this month. The union's executive, which...
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Cass docks at Wharf
City University's Cass Business School is setting up premises in Canary Wharf, making it the first business school to establish itself in London's Docklands. The first course to be delivered at the...
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Sculpture stolen
Thieves have stolen a £600,000 bronze sculpture from the grounds of Roehampton University. The Watchers , a 2m-high sculpture by Lynn Chadwick, was part of a three-part work. The police said it would...
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Stiglitz opens institute
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prizewinner and former head of the World Bank, will launch a centre of multidisciplinary research into global poverty and poverty reduction at Manchester University next...
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Strathclyde sells site
Strathclyde University's court has decided to sell its education faculty campus and build new premises at its central Glasgow site. Archie Hunter, the court's convener, said a new £50 million...
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Correction
In our list of top science entrepreneurs ("Wealthy sultans of spin-off cash in on their ideas", January 20), we incorrectly spelt the name of Richard Walmsley, senior lecturer in life sciences at...
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Unison pledges to make equal pay reforms stick
The UK's biggest trade union has vowed to pursue prosecutions against universities that break equal pay laws by treating academics more favourably than support staff. Unison said this week that it...
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MI6 spook killed the mad monk
A British forensic scientist has helped unravel the mystery behind the death of Rasputin, writes Olga Wojtas. Derek Pounder, head of Dundee University's department of forensic medicine, helped debunk...
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Report highlights sweet side of student invasion
Residents often dread signs of students moving into their neighbourhood, fearful of the prospect of late-night partying, streets jammed with cars and pavements strewn with litter, writes Olga Wojtas...
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Queen Margaret University College
Queen Margaret University College is building the first new campus in Scotland for 30 years. The institution is moving to an out-of-town campus in Musselburgh, east of Edinburgh, by 2007 at a cost of...
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Thinkers divided over role in media
A battle of wills has left the British Psychological Society in two minds over whether its function is that of introspective learned society or extrovert commentator on popular issues of the day,...
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Funding gap 'exaggerated'
Fears that Welsh academics are having to cope with much lower funding levels than their colleagues in English universities appear to be largely unfounded according to an official report. The Welsh...