BBC quiz goes global
The BBC television show University Challenge is going global. Victorious teams from Queen's University, Belfast, Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck College and Edinburgh University are being pitted...
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Spotlight on uranium
The Natural Environment Research Council has launched a £1.2 million research programme on the effects of depleted uranium, with a focus on the environment. It will follow up Royal Society reports...
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Material health benefit
Orthogem, a young company developing synthetic bone-graft material that substantially lowers the infection risk to patients has won innovation funding to bring the idea to market. The technology is...
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V-cs accused of stalling on pay offer to provoke dispute
Furious lecturers' union leaders have accused vice-chancellors of seeking to engineer an industrial dispute so they can walk out of the national pay bargaining system. As Natfhe and the Association...
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66% of staff slate bureaucratic Hefce
Two-thirds of university and college staff feel the Higher Education Funding Council for England is bureaucratic and a third feel it is inflexible and lacks transparency. The fourth Mori survey,...
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Pair to fund scholarship
Two Strathclyde University professors have put their money where their mouths are to fund a scholarship for a master of international management course being launched in autumn. Neil Hood (pictured...
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Use RDAs to fill gap, say Lords
Vulnerable research departments in universities should be supported by regional development agencies if they do not receive funding under the research assessment exercise, the House of Lords...
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Tough market for jobs ahead
Graduates will have to work harder and be prepared to be more flexible if they are to find career jobs this year, employers have warned. A 3.4 per cent drop in graduate vacancies, coupled with...
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Current energy policy is to 'run fast to stand still'
Researchers are questioning whether the winds of change are blowing hard enough to meet the UK's energy needs, despite trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt's commitment to wind power. Ms...
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Call for single science body
The science research councils should be dissolved and replaced with a national science foundation, leading science figures said this week. The Royal Society of Chemistry, whose chief executive writes...
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Analysis: Which university has the fattest wallet?
How has the fall in the value of the stock market since The THES' first analysis of university wealth in 2001 affected the financial health of UK institutions? Claire Sanders and Alison Goddard...
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Keele staff face further cuts
Keele University shocked staff last week by announcing a new wave of job losses before its present round of cutbacks has been completed. About 24 academic posts are expected to go in the latest...
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Insecurity tops the list of job woes
University staff are more stressed than people in comparable jobs, such as those in the police force or county councils, according to new research. Job insecurity heads the list of troubles, followed...
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TV bid to provoke science debate
Prime-time television viewers in the UK could soon be treated to an advert promoting academic journals after the success of a 30-second commercial in the US. It was aired during big-audience shows to...
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Students admit sex assaults
A quarter of students have been bullied into having sex and a third have physically assaulted their partner, researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University believe. In a survey of 250 students at GCU,...