Millions of free books to be put online
A consortium of US universities has taken a major step towards the mass digitisation of its book collections. In a move that offers a non-profit alternative to commercial digitisation schemes offered...
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Poorest students get us grant filip
President Bush has signed a bill to put an extra £5.7 billion into financial help for poor students. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 will put the money into Pell grants, which are...
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Ahmadinejad's US visit stirs funding trouble
A US politician has put forward a bill proposing that a prestigious university be denied state funds because it hosted a talk by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Republican Duncan Hunter said...
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Huge donation to benefit US college
Claremont McKenna College in the US has been given a £100 million donation, among the biggest ever received by a university. The gift was made by alumnus Robert Day and will create a scholarship...
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Mammoth step forward in DNA work
Mammoths may have pointed researchers to the latest weapon in crime detection. An international team of scientists who have retrieved large amounts of DNA from prehistoric mammoths say the technique...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ rewards good performance
More than 20 ߣߣÊÓƵn universities will get a share of a £42 million government fund to reward good performance. The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund is split between science, computing,...
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Help online to flush out phishing frauds
Researchers at a US university are educating people who fall for internet banking scams by taking a leaf out of the fraudsters' book. A team at Carnegie Mellon University sent an e-mail to people who...
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Possible pointer to reversing diabetes
ߣߣÊÓƵn researchers have found a way to reverse diabetes in rats, which could point to a cure for the disease in humans. The team at Sydney University of Technology put insulin-producing genes...
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The hard line on linen
Breaking news from Bradford University: a message posted on the front page of the university's internal staff website - under "Latest news" - reveals that the marketing department has lost a...
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Smurfs up at Bath
It is reassuring to see students knuckling down to serious study at the start of a new academic year. The Press Association reports this week that students from Bath University have beaten the world...
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Jamie Targett would be proud
In a marketing-obsessed era of rebranding, changing the name of your company, institution or even trade union is all the rage. It has, however, not been without controversy, as the geniuses who...
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Research must show payoff
Peer reviewers will consider 'economic impact' in research councils' funding decisions. Zoe Corbyn reports. Academics face a change in the way their applications for research funding will be judged...
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All work to be counted in RAE evaluation
Every research paper published by every academic in each university department will be graded for quality under the system planned to replace the research assessment exercise, The Times Higher has...
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Legal advice attracts tag of 'union-busting'
UCU says moves by universities to work around, rather than with, unions on campus represent a return to the 1980s. Melanie Newman reports. Vice-chancellors were accused of adopting 1980s-style "union...
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V-cs welcome funding pledge
Vice-chancellors have welcomed future "stability" in university funding after the Government this week said it would maintain student funding levels at least until 2010-11 and will boost the seven...