Draft rules threaten ethics review system
Academics are demanding changes to draft legislation that could remove them from the ethics committees that decide which medical experiments are carried out in the UK. All National Health Service...
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'Crude' system sows division
Amartya Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Nobel laureate in economics, this week denounced the Samuel Huntingdon classification of the world into largely religiously defined...
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Alumni take expertise home
A tracer study of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan has found that the overwhelming majority of award holders, 85-90 per cent, return to their home countries as the scheme...
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Ministers back teaching centre
The Commonwealth this week cleared the path for the creation of a centre of excellence for teacher education at Cambridge University. The plan was endorsed at the three-yearly meeting of Commonwealth...
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Oxford rapped over Wilkie
One of the leaders of last year's academic boycott of Israel attacked Oxford University this week for meting out a "wholly disproportionate punishment" to a professor who rejected a student who had...
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Grand designs for scholarship
Over £260m of public and private cash is going into two campus revamps. The THES reports MIDDLESEX Middlesex University will close its smaller campuses and focus on three sites as part of a £100...
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QAA slated over 'hasty' verdict on foundations
Quality watchdogs have been accused of unfairly maligning foundation degrees in a "prejudicial and premature" report that criticises the quality of the government's new flagship qualification. As The...
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Big-spending nations leave UK trailing in R&D stakes
UK companies still lag behind their international competitors in research and development spending, according to the latest figures from the Department of Trade and Industry. And there are signs that...
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Sailing too close to the wind
Giant belches from the deep could have claimed the lives of many unfortunate mariners. Scientists have found that a single bubble of methane erupting from the sea-bed could swallow a ship and send it...
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'Crazy' teaching cash switch will cost science £22m, say critics
The proposals to change the way teaching is funded at English universities will cost science £22 million, according to pressure group Save British Science. The plans, developed by the Higher...
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Warning over crisis in Islamic studies
Britain must act to avert the crisis facing Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, politicians were told this week, writes Alison Goddard. Minority interests vital to the nation are inadvertently being...
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Who's the weaker sex now?
Men go to university to play hard whereas women go to study hard, so it's not surprising that males are now being outshone on campus as well as at school. Alison Goddard reports on the latest...
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Who got that job?
Nicole Harris, 26 Job advertised, THES, January 24 2003 JISC Programme Manager The Joint Information Systems Committee, based at King's College London, was seeking a programme manager for its...
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Isn't it time you signed up for an EQ test?
You may know your subject inside out, but to teach well you must engage with the student, argues Alan Mortiboys. You can get into a lot of trouble by using the word "emotions" in some academic...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Paul May Age : 39 Job : Senior lecturer, Bristol University School of Chemistry. Qualifications : BSc Chemistry (...