General Research Grants
Deadline: 15/07/2006
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Playing in the sandpit just got serious
Those who associate beach volleyball with the bikini-clad soap opera Baywatch should think again - the sport has gone academic, writes Anna Fazackerley. The race is on to lure elite sports teams into...
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Pay deal could mean job cuts
V-cs stretched to limits say they'll have to make savings somewhere, report Alan Thomson and Anna Fazackerley Universities may have to consider substantial job losses to afford the national pay deal...
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'I have only been through the university of life, and what a diverse life'
Actress and child welfare campaigner Floella Benjamin becomes Exeter University's chancellor Every week, the children's programme Play School began with the words: "A house, with a door." Floella...
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On the move...
* Lancaster University has appointed James Wilsdon , head of science and innovation at Demos, senior research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies; he will divide his time between Demos and...
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Texting helps to fill courses
Top-up fees are no discouragement, but applicants are slow to take up offers, write Anthea Lipsett and Jessica Shepherd The number of students accepting university places is down by less than 1 per...
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It's a career of two halves
Students may be celebrating finishing their final exams in time to follow the England football team's fortunes in the World Cup over the next month, but they might spare a thought for 20 former...
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It's a rap, but not as we know it...
John Fothergill is probably the UK's first rapping pro vice-chancellor. Leicester University students had to readjust their headphones when they heard Professor Fothergill launch into his rap as part...
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Next Week
The pay offer Academe gives its verdict. Read our exclusive ICM poll PLUS Christopher Hitchens on rights, radicalismand Thomas Paine
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Hello boys
All-female St Hilda's College in Oxford has voted to accept male students. The college, which has been single sex since its formation in 1893, voted for the change on Wednesday afternoon. In 2003,...
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Head count
Academics made up 46.4 per cent of a total 346,305 staff in UK higher education in 2004-05, new figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. Women accounted for 41.2 per cent of...
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Newport departure
James Lusty, the vice-chancellor of the University of Wales Newport, has announced that he is to take early retirement at the end of the year "to spend more time with his family". Professor Lusty,...
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Macmillan to UEA
The University of East Anglia has appointed Bill Macmillan, currently a pro vice-chancellor at Oxford University, as its new vice-chancellor.
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Biotech grant review
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is consulting on changes to the seven committees that review research grant proposals. Nigel Brown, director of science and technology, said...
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Blair steps into RAE row
Yet another policy rethink is on the cards. Anna Fazackerley canvasses v-cs' reactions Tony Blair has personally intervened in Whitehall wranglings over research funding, making it possible that the...