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'Ignorant' scientists threaten wildlife survival The international effort to save wildlife from extinction is threatened by scientists' "extraordinarily limited knowledge" of biodiversity, the Royal...
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Today's news
Brunel University to set up school A revival of the ancient tradition of university schools is being planned to raise pupils' academic performances. Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel...
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Queen's awaits verdict
Queen's University, Belfast's director of communications Tom Collins has rejected tribunal claims that he flouted fair employment laws in the appointment of a publications officer. Catholic Patrick...
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Scots ready to work
Eighty per cent of employers of students from Scottish further education colleges consider them well-prepared for work, according to the first performance indicators from the Scottish Further...
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Host female scientists
The government has invited tenders from institutions wishing to host an £800,000 women in science, engineering and technology resource centre. As part of its strategy to help boost the number of...
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Online bonus, e-ventually
What has happened to the UK's £62m e-university? Mark Samuels reports Teaching students online can seem like a mission impossible. All too often, e-learning leaves students frustrated and bored....
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Hard-up Oxford college axes history
Harris Manchester, Oxford's college for mature students and an important part of its access drive, is to cut history amid serious financial difficulties. The decision has angered students and the...
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In the news: Joann Fletcher
The study of hair may sound trifling, but it has thrust British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher into the centre of a heated international controversy. Dr Fletcher, who claimed last week to have found the...
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Elite face cuts to teaching grant
Teaching grants for universities offering traditional degrees will be raided to pay for courses favoured by government under proposals by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. If the...
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Rumours of spin unite opposition
The government this week denied that it was planning to relaunch its top-up fees policy, writes Alison Goddard. Reports that ministers plan to rebrand £3,000-a-year top-up fees as an "individualised...
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Oxford expert fights in 'pure' Iceland battle
An Oxford University statistician has helped to dispel doubts about a study that identified Icelanders as a uniquely pure gene pool suitable for ground-breaking medical research. Peter Donnelly is a...
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Genetic tests move onto geography agenda
Geographers, famed for their interdisciplinary approach to research, fear that the field of human genetic testing could potentially open the floodgates to greater social and political discrimination...
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Lack of data threatens quest to save species
Worldwide targets to stop plant and animal species disappearing could be missed because there are no definitive measures of rate of loss, according to the UK's leading scientists. Exactly a year ago...
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Findings: Latin a 'detour' to languages
Learning Latin used to be considered the key to learning other foreign languages, writes Neil Martin. Generations of schoolchildren knew that nobody spoke it any more and it seemed useful only to...
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Appointments
The University of Manchester has appointed Amelia Jones, former professor of art history at the University of California, as Pilkington chair of art history; Dorothy Trump, currently lecturer in...