Wellcome awards £40m for innovation
The Wellcome Trust announced new technology transfer awards worth £40 million this week, with some of the funding going directly to universities, writes Anna Fazackerley. The investment coincides...
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Research gets own TV show
Five universities have joined together to air their research on television screens across the world. The pilot "Research TV" project, instigated by the University of Warwick, consists of eight weekly...
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TV dramas foil legal ambitions
The image of slick US lawyers in television dramas is discouraging school-leavers from considering studying law at university, research commissioned by the Scottish Executive has found. Scottish...
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Business will pay if courses meet needs
Employers may be required to pay more towards the cost of training in universities and colleges, but only if institutions make their courses more relevant to employers' and students' needs, education...
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New mobile web service gets commercial backing
A mobile internet company founded by four Cambridge graduates has attracted six-figure first-round funding to meet growing demand for services on phones and personal digital assistants. Hypertag has...
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Social work reforms fail to fully win over Scots
Scottish social work experts are disappointed that new measures to boost social work education have fallen short of English moves to give students bursaries, writes Olga Wojtas. But they welcomed...
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Scots fume as English rivals win more cash
There are growing fears among Scottish universities that their UK research competitiveness will suffer without extra funding from the Scottish Executive. Last week's funding allocation from the...
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Australian students owe £3bn in loans
Since a Labor government introduced Australia's unique "study now, pay later" scheme nearly 15 years ago, 1.7 million Australians have attended university and been charged only about a quarter of the...
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UK may play smaller part in Europe's next research framework
As the EUA conference gets under way in Bristol, Caroline Davis examines ressearch collaboration In March 2000, the Lisbon European Council agreed that it wanted Europe to become the most competitive...
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'Crazy land' ponders big revamp for humanities
Canada could change the way it funds the social sciences and humanities by grouping researchers into areas of social issues and not just by their academic disciplines. The Social Sciences and...
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EU project lets time stand still
New techniques to preserve archaeological finds where they are discovered while allowing them to be visited and observed by the public are being developed by a European Union-funded research...
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Business cash skews science
The academic integrity of UK research is at risk as the government tries to wean researchers off state support in favour of commercial income, the Royal Society said this week. Royal Society members...
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Ottawa
The number of students in Canadian universities grew by 39 per cent between 1991 and 2001, two and a half times the rate of its adult population growth. The increase, partly explained by demands from...
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Teaching-only staff suffer more stress, AUT poll finds
Evidence emerged today that teaching-only academics suffer greater work-related stress than colleagues who do research. A poll by the Association of University Teachers shows that 40 per cent of...
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Queen Mary, City alliance starts £10m collaboration
Two London universities have announced a joint £10 million health and engineering initiative. The aim is to combine the resources of Queen Mary, University of London, and City University to develop...