Planes put heritage on the map
An aerial survey of England will reveal the nation's archaeological heritage in unprecedented detail, writes Steve Farrar. English Heritage is accelerating its national mapping programme, while the...
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US clamps down on student visas
President Bush issued a directive this week indicating tighter controls on overseas students arriving in the United States. His announcement, made at the first session of the Homeland Security...
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Plan to combat scrapie flawed
Government plans to rid the United Kingdom of sheep deemed susceptible to scrapie - a disease related to BSE - might fail because a key scientific question remains unresolved. Malcolm Ferguson-Smith...
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Lab fears project snub
Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, has asked science minister Lord Sainsbury to end confusion over the future of the Daresbury Laboratory, which lost the prestigious Diamond Synchrotron to...
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Latest news
Cambridge hammered in new report Fundamental failings of management and accountability at Cambridge University led to the disasterous implementation of a £9 million financial accounting system that...
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No more cash for students, Hodge says
Students can expect no more money from the government's review of undergraduate support, education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. Whatever extra there is for higher education will be...
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Next week
News: Academic refugees: what will the new system do for them? Features: Against the clash of civilisations: Thomas Meyer argues that there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' Research: Loosening E....
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From today's UK papers
First-class blunders cost Cambridge £10m Cambridge is so badly managed and governed that its botched attempt to introduce a new computerised accounting system has wasted £10 million of public money...
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For the record
Half RAE returned staff in top-rated fields Half the staff who were returned in this year's research assessment exercise work in subject areas expected to gain the top 5 and 5* grades,...
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APPOINTMENTS University of Plymouth Rod Blackshaw , professor and head of the department of agriculture and food studies, has been appointed as the dean of the faculty of land, food and leisure....
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Employers putting graduate jobs on hold
A quarter of employers have decreased their targeted graduate vacancies in the face of an uncertain global economy, a national survey has found, writes Tony Tysome. Fears of an impending recession...
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'Macho, white culture' to go
Cambridge University is to encourage positive discrimination for women, ethnic minority and disabled staff in an attempt to end the intimidating white, male "macho culture" highlighted in an equal...
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Apology for radio critique
College heads have called for the resignation of Learning and Skills Council chief executive John Harwood following his criticism of further education standards on national radio. Mr Harwood has...
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Scot reform welcomed
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, has praised the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's "good progress" in revising proposals to reform teaching funding,...
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Call for 'shared governance'
Academics should be brought back to the heart of university management because executive rule is failing. Speaking at the Universities UK conference on university governance, Michael Shattock,...