Here's looking at you, squid
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
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Five projects share Pounds 462,000
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT Higher Education Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...
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Student insurers rebrand to cover scandalous past
France's biggest student social insurance society, tainted by fraud and corruption and the subject of official investigations for the past two years, has been relaunched with a new name and statutory...
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Historian pays the price of denial
Darijusz Ratajczak, a Polish history lecturer, has been dismissed from his post at the Opole University and banned from academic teaching for three years. A university disciplinary commission ruled...
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There is still time to mend a flawed government bill
It is becoming apparent that the government's decision to exclude higher education from plans to restructure post-16 education through the Learning and Skills bill is a serious shortcoming (page 4)....
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Members should be on the USS's conscience
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...
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Global vision takes seed in plantation schools
Was the world declaration on Education For All more than a vision? asks Angela Little on the eve of the declaration's review Next week in Dakar, Senegal, 900 educationists, donors, non-governmental...
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Cash call for key science initiatives
Extra government funds will be channelled into three major science initiatives in sustainable land use, post-genomics and information technology if advice from the research councils is followed. The...
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Asmal slams market motive of global allies
South African education minister Kader Asmal has launched an attack on "global universities" that see developing countries as no more than new markets. Delivering the address at a four-day conference...
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Bidding for funds too heavy a burden, Hefce says
Funding chiefs are to recognise the burden of accountability faced by institutions. A report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England will suggest ways of rationalising...
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Research elite risk losing stars
Top-rated research departments could lose their 5* grade if they fail to provide adequate research training, funding chiefs have warned. Research funding would be explicitly linked to the quality of...
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Union demands halt to RAE after sex discrimination case
A lecturers' union has called for an immediate halt to the research assessment exercise because of "inherent discrimination", writes Harriet Swain. The call, from the Association of University...
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The lure of London town
Overseas and European Union students are in the majority at three London higher education institutions and make up more than 40 per cent of the student body at five. Higher Education Statistics...
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Higher surpluses needed for growth
Universities and colleges that fail to maintain an adequate operating surplus should raise their targets, the funding council announced last week. At present, the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Students urged to follow life of crime
Royal Holloway College, London is attempting to bring science to life for secondary pupils by staging its own murder mystery. More than 100 Year 10 students will be presented with the gory details of...