'Naive' UK risks losing millions
European universities may soon be able to scoop up UK researchers and their research council funding following a partnership agreement between funding agencies. Graham Richards, chairman of chemistry...
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So, are you thinking what we're thinking?
"Great minds don't think alike," Aberdeen university said when it launched a staff recruitment drive with a full-page advertisement in The Times Higher last month. In fact, it seems that great minds...
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Science awed at coral reef discovery
Scientists investigating the destruction of coral in the US Virgin Islands were shocked to discover near-perfect reefs at depths never fully explored, writes Anna Fazackerley. A team of ocean...
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OU takes expertise to Africa
A ten-year project to help train thousands of teachers in Africa was unveiled by the Open University this week. As world leaders prepare to discuss aid and debt relief for the developing world at...
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Next week
The parents are coming! Why UK universities will have to adapt to US-style pushy mums and dads PLUS The rise in teaching-only staff
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An enfant terrible reaches maturity
Social science has put its wild past behind it and grown up, says Olga Wojtas The British Sociological Association is bestowing honorary memberships on its oldest and most loyal supporters as part of...
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Stalwarts honoured for their support over 50 years ... and counting
Samuel Waxman , 86, is the son of Jewish emigres from Poland. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association for 50 years, though he has never been an academic. Mr Waxman worked in...
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Queen's Birthday Honours List
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Knighthoods Roderick Castle Floud , president, London Metropolitan University, for services to higher education. Richard Lavenham Gardner , Royal Society professor of zoology, Oxford...
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Master mariner, neuroscientist and v-c honoured
Captain Christopher Elliott , who has been appointed MBE, has been ferrying scientists to and from Antarctica for 40 years, first as a crewman and then as skipper of successive British Antarctic...
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Hefce responds to cuts
Funding council chiefs were due to meet this week to decide how to advise ministers about "nationally important" academic subjects vulnerable to closure. The board of the Higher Education Funding...
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Library turns new page
The 2 million volumes at the University of London's Senate House library are to be opened to thousands more students. From August, a scheme in place since the 1990s, under which colleges buy a...
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Mind over matter?
Bournemouth University has saved one of its courses from extinction by changing its name. Registrations on the computing and psychology course were dropping off, so the department changed the name to...
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Learned Olympic bid
A new institute of sport dedicated to the study of the Olympic movement and ideals would be created as part of a London Olympic Institute if the capital was chosen to host the 2012 games, it was...
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Millionaire winner now wants to be a Napier MBA
Most people, if they won Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? , would think in terms of sports cars, designer outfits and Caribbean cruises. But when Harshvardhan Nawathe, a science graduate from Mumbai,...
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College body to shrink
The umbrella body for the leaders of higher education colleges is preparing to downsize and remould itself into an organisation mainly representing small specialist colleges as more of its members...