RAE stars get cash for loyalty
Universities are offering star researchers "golden handcuffs" to fend off poaching attempts in the run-up to the research assessment exercise. As departments fight to push up their RAE scores, key...
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'It is the equivalent of harnessing the power of a supercomputer'
Myles Allen has teamed up with the BBC to harness the power of the public's PCs to predict climate change Myles Allen is running the world's largest scientific experiment to predict the future...
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On the move...
* Anne Garden , former director of medical studies and professor of medical education at Liverpool University, has been appointed director of the Centre for Medical Education at Lancaster University...
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Top job goes to Eastwood
The incoming Hefce chief will not just want to mind the shop. Anna Fazackerley reports David Eastwood, the new chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, pledged this week...
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Nude muse of good relations
Dundee University's image may be about to change forever after proposals for a sculpture of a "provocative" m-high nude woman that would straddle the lane between the art school and life sciences....
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Unions claim victory in vote to cause 'chaos' by boycott
The lecturers' unions are poised to deliver on their threat to "bring universities to a standstill" over pay this year, after indications that their members voted resoundingly in favour of taking...
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MPs quiz over use of advice
MPs this week expressed amazement at the Government's failure to monitor the use and effectiveness of consultants in drawing up the scientific advice that informs policy decisions. The House of...
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Fees drive students from old to new
The prospect of tuition fees has helped student recruitment at some of the newest universities but hindered it at some of the oldest. Figures out this week reveal that many post-1992 institutions...
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Jenks is Brunel v-c
Chris Jenks will be Brunel University's new vice-chancellor, it was announced this week. He replaces Steven Schwartz, who has moved to Macquarie University, in ߣߣÊÓƵ, and will take over from...
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Checks in the pipeline
Students are to receive free check-ups from "money doctors" in a scheme run by the financial services watchdog. Debt advisers will offer information about budgeting, money management and financial...
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Course hits rocky road
Coventry University has become the latest institution to fail an inspection of a foundation degree. The Quality Assurance Agency said that it had "no confidence" in the academic standards or in the...
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New branch opening
Peterborough is to get its first university campus as Anglia Ruskin University develops links with Peterborough Regional College. Programmes in Peterborough will focus on health, enterprise and...
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Service charges
A paper in a Social Market Foundation book published this week echoes calls for the cap on top-up fees to be lifted. Alissa Goodman from the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues that fees should rise...
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Correction
Manchester University wishes to point out that Joseph Stiglitz, director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, is not receiving a £250,000 salary ("£250K to wage war on poverty", February 10). The...