Correction
In our list of top science entrepreneurs ("Wealthy sultans of spin-off cash in on their ideas", January 20), we incorrectly spelt the name of Richard Walmsley, senior lecturer in life sciences at...
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Unison pledges to make equal pay reforms stick
The UK's biggest trade union has vowed to pursue prosecutions against universities that break equal pay laws by treating academics more favourably than support staff. Unison said this week that it...
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MI6 spook killed the mad monk
A British forensic scientist has helped unravel the mystery behind the death of Rasputin, writes Olga Wojtas. Derek Pounder, head of Dundee University's department of forensic medicine, helped debunk...
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Report highlights sweet side of student invasion
Residents often dread signs of students moving into their neighbourhood, fearful of the prospect of late-night partying, streets jammed with cars and pavements strewn with litter, writes Olga Wojtas...
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Queen Margaret University College
Queen Margaret University College is building the first new campus in Scotland for 30 years. The institution is moving to an out-of-town campus in Musselburgh, east of Edinburgh, by 2007 at a cost of...
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Thinkers divided over role in media
A battle of wills has left the British Psychological Society in two minds over whether its function is that of introspective learned society or extrovert commentator on popular issues of the day,...
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Funding gap 'exaggerated'
Fears that Welsh academics are having to cope with much lower funding levels than their colleagues in English universities appear to be largely unfounded according to an official report. The Welsh...
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Jam spread too thinly to nourish academe
A review of the social sciences discovers that a funding imbalance is the main cause of problems besetting research and recruitment. Becky McCall reports A review of the social sciences has found a...
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Applications and entrance requirements fall as ߣߣÊÓƵn student debt rises
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities have experienced steep declines in numbers of applications from home and international students. A drop in foreign application numbers has led to job losses at some...
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US alarm over poor literacy
Fewer and fewer American university graduates, raised on watching TV and surfing the web, know how to read and understand a book, according to a new national study of 19,000 people. The study, by the...
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Taking the easy route to university-wide fame
A Croatian university has begun a name-and-shame campaign to help combat cheating. Students caught cheating in exams at Zagreb University's electrical engineering and computing faculty will be...
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West Indians take early lead
A new national university for the Caribbean archipelago of Trinidad and Tobago has awarded 500 degrees and diplomas before construction of a main campus building has even been completed. This...
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Iraqi Kurds turn Saddam's prisons into classrooms
Kurdish students are flocking to enrol at universities in Northern Iraq, where the autonomous provincial government has made higher education a priority. In Saddam's time, a solitary university in...
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'I can study in Kurdish without fear'
Tuition in Kurdish is one of the key factors in the development of Northern Iraq's universities. "I feel such freedom to be studying in my language without fear," said Faiz Mohammed, a Kurdish...
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Political fealty - or exam failure
Students at universities in Belarus claim they have been told that they may take exams only if they agree to sign a nomination form for President Alaksandr Lukashenka, who is seeking re-election in...