Quality doubts hit access goal
The government's widening access policy is being undermined by persistent concerns about the quality of teaching on higher education courses delivered through further education colleges. Further...
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Warwick expertise aids firm
Warwick University computer science department has helped a company in its own science park increase sales of its scientific imaging products by 230 per cent. The company, Improvision, partnered the...
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Film school searches for new site
The film school at the University of Wales College Newport is on a location hunt for major expansion, it was announced this week. Clive Myer, director of the International Film School of Wales, at...
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Storming research
In March 1989, a magnetic storm brought down the electricity grid in Quebec, plunging the province into darkness for nine hours. Such storms interfere with the electronics on spacecraft and have been...
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Gone fishing for sea lice
Scientists have isolated the true scent of salmon in a bid to trap a major fish-farming pest. The light, sweet, mushroomy fragrance comes from key signalling chemicals produced by the fish. These...
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VR keeps training on track
Train drivers can learn how to handle emergencies resulting from extreme weather conditions or farm animals on the track thanks to a new virtual reality simulator. Designers at Teesside University's...
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Plagiarist may lose job to set example
A Korean professor who admitted intentionally reproducing work from a Canadian academic paper may lose his job as part of a drive by his government to demonstrate that it intends to get tough on...
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Union fights to reveal Aussie v-cs' fat salaries
The A$261,000 (£95,238) a year salary paid to Australian prime minister John Howard is dwarfed by the salary packages received by many of the nation's vice-chancellors, which are believed to exceed A...
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Don's Diary
April The deadline for submissions to the 2001 research assessment exercise is only a few days off, and the jammed helplines testify to a frenzy of activity in institutions across the country. A...
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In the news: Nuala O'Loan
Nuala O'Loan, the police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, will need all her strength of character in the next few weeks as she fights to defend her office's report into the police handling of the...
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Candid Christmas card
Universities UK has just issued its contender for the worst Christmas card of the millennium, with a collage of pictures of its staff in the shape of the organisation's logo. To be fair, most of them...
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Oxford's crown slips
While today's results of the research assessment exercise are generally good, not everyone improved. Take, for example, the University of Oxford's submission for history, which slipped from 5* to 5....
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Powerful speakers
Darwin College, Cambridge, has announced its lecture series for 2002, which will be on the theme of "power". Speakers will include veteran politician Tony Benn and Mary Archer. The college is keeping...
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Just Warwick
The University of Warwick is undergoing a rebranding. It is dropping the stuffy old crest from its logo, replacing it with a stronger emphasis on the word Warwick. A draft consultation paper on the...
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Say what?
The Diary congratulates the University of Dundee for winning a Golden Bull from the Plain English Campaign. Every year, the campaign group hands out eight such awards for the worst abuses of the...