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Medics 'livid' over research cash failure Scientists have reacted with anger after it was revealed that the Government's medical research body last year failed to spend 10 per cent of its budget...
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Lecturers who failed to fill room fined £500
A London university has taken drastic - some would say draconian - steps to stop academics booking rooms and then failing to use them. In an attempt to ensure that staff use space efficiently, City...
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Fury at research underspend
Academics and MPs reacted with anger this week to news that research councils had accidentally underspent by millions of pounds, while top-rated research proposals are being turned away. The Medical...
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'I've seen the difference technology makes to lives, including mine'
You need neither muscles nor testosterone to work a computer, said Jackie Edwards, the winner of the inaugural Aurora Woman of Technology award. Ms Edwards, who also won the Best Woman in Technology...
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On the move...
* Oxford University has appointed: Nicholas Rawlins , professor of behavioural science at the university, to the Watts chair of psychology; Jonathan Zittrain , former Jack N. Berkman and Lillian R....
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Elite keen to run trust schools
Top universities are queuing up to get involved in running the Government's new trust schools, the Education Secretary has told MPs, writes Jessica Shepherd. Ruth Kelly told the Education and Skills...
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BAT report spots good prospects
Would your institution take the tobacco pound? Phil Baty examines a revealing document A global cigarette company identified six UK universities that privately indicated that they would be willing to...
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Wales' pink dragon
Cardiff has claimed the crown as Wales' number one pink university, writes Jessica Shepherd. The university is so eager to discuss sexual orientation in the workplace that it has become the first...
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List of research fraud grows as MIT star is fired for faking data
A high-flying US associate professor has been fired for making up data in a published scientific paper, grant applications and manuscripts. Luk Van Parijs, a biologist at the prestigious...
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Next week
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Action on extremists
Academics will be given guidelines next week about how to deal with extremism in the seminar room and on campus. On Monday, Universities UK and the Standing Conference of Principals will publish...
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It's good to talk
The Government has called on the Higher Education Funding Council for England to encourage more bottom-up innovative approaches to finding solutions to vulnerable strategic subjects. In a letter to...
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Creative thinking
Glamorgan University is to build a £35 million campus in Cardiff to benefit from the city's culture and arts scene. The campus will house a new School of Creative and Cultural Industries...
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Mural mix-up
Incorrect details about two murals at the University of Wales, Bangor, appeared in last week's Times Higher . Walking in Rome was painted in 1999 by Catrin Webster, the other mural, Hall of Illusions...
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Plymouth centre
Plymouth University's geography subject centre mentioned in the October 21 edition of The Times Higher is in fact the Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.