Top-up fees fail to deter pupils
The prospect of paying £3,000 in tuition fees a year has had no impact on the number of applicants vying for a place at Cambridge University, The Times Higher has learnt. Cambridge's latest figures...
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Design students tackle a bit of DIY
It may seem like a cunning ruse to cut university teaching costs, but it is in fact the latest innovation in creating fresh challenges for design students: students on the Royal College of Art...
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You can fly, but you can't hide...
Beat Naef-Daenzer and his team of researchers at the Swiss Ornithological Institute have created a miniature telemetry transmitter that will allow scientists to radio-track tiny species such as...
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Get excited, you owe it to freshers
Leave your glum face at home - if you don't enthuse new students, their first year could be their last, says Bob Brecher Another year, another influx of undergraduates... Still, maybe they could help...
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Maybe next time wear your suit?
From forward planning to appropriate dress, your students will rely on you for sound advice on how to approach a work placement and avoid a faux pas on the first day. So deliver the facts without any...
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Lycra nightmare and media dream
Name: Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Age: 32 Job: Senior lecturer, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University Salary: mid-30s Background: I'm from Denmark, but educated in the...
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Ask the panel
I am an administration officer and I would like to think I get on well with my colleagues, including my manager. But she insists that our catch-up meetings are held on Friday afternoons. This proves...
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Call to raise job hopes for young academics
Scottish universities must do more to improve career prospects for young academics if they are to remain internationally competitive in research, according to a report. The Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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Who's in who's out?
LEICESTER Claudio Mezzetti, former professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to Europe to join Leicester University. Professor Mezzetti, Leicester's new...
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Wanted: MBA faculty who don't have a fear of flying
Most people will have heard of flying doctors but Luton University is looking to recruit flying faculty. The academics will join the university's Business School to deliver MBAs to students around...
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Spin-offs dominate enterpriseshortlist
An Oxford University spin-off that develops treatments for cancer has been shortlisted for a prestigious new award, writes Jessica Shepherd. Avidex Ltd is one of six spin-offs among the nine...
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Drug specialist doubles value
A team of Oxford University chemists looks set to pocket millions from a spin-off company that has doubled its value to £58 million in under a year. VASTox plc was started two years ago when six...
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Skies stay dark for astronomypostdocs
Only 20 per cent of PhD students in astronomy will manage to secure jobs in their field, according to a new report. An investigation by the Royal Astronomical Society found that while it is easy for...
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At-risk subjects get £22m shot in the arm
Multimillion pound initiatives have been unveiled to draw together "world-class cadres of researchers" in area studies and languages in the latest move to protect "strategic subjects" vulnerable to...
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Sleight of hand and a little stardust
JOHN BROWN magician, astronomer royal for scotland and regius professor of astronomy John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland and regius professor of astronomy at Glasgow University, e-mails The...