Cash broadens access
A survey by the Research Information Network has found that investment of £30 million over six years has brought a change in provision of access to research resources in university libraries. During...
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Political science gong
Robert Hazell, director of the Constitution Unit in the department of political science at the University College London, was awarded a CBE for services to constitutional reform.
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An academic take on model villages
Oxford and Cambridge universities are to follow in the footsteps of the great industrialists of the past by building homes for their workers. The famous model communities of Bourneville, New Earswick...
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Pay costs cast cloud on sunny outlook
Inflation-busting pay rises for staff and a failure to recruit enough fee-paying students are the big financial risks facing universities in future, funding council chiefs warned this week amid...
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Postdocs are the 'lost tribes of the science world'
Postdoctoral researchers have become the "lost tribes of the scientific world", who are used, abused and finally lost by universities, MPs heard this week. During a heated Westminster Hall discussion...
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Front man for the rock band
A geologist ought to have a good grasp of geography. But the short walk from the voiceover studio in Soho to the Covent Garden hotel lobby in which we meet stumps Iain Stewart. He arrives apologetic...
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V-cs reported to have ruled out fee cuts to fill places
University leaders "do not expect" institutions to cut tuition fees or increase bursaries to fill course vacancies during clearing, it was claimed this week amid fears that some universities will...
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Poor report casts doubt on flagship initiative
One of the Government's key higher education policies was facing a setback this week as London South Bank University became the first of an expected series of institutions to have a foundation degree...
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Writer's champ
(A Swansea University lecturer has been granted exclusive access to an unpublished archive of research on writer Ernest Hemingway's life in Cuba. Philip Melling, a reader in Swansea's department of...
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Media scholars consider merger
The two major associations representing academics in media studies may join forces in the face of an "aggressive" move by a training body to impose a "narrow skills agenda" on degree courses. Members...
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Libraries find books bound in human skin
The use of human skin as a book-binding material came under the spotlight this week after macabre discoveries in university libraries in the US, writes Paul Hill. According to the latest edition of...
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UK warns Europe on animal activism
The UK biomedical research community warned this week that animal rights extremism was no longer solely a British problem and should not be ignored in other European countries. Last year, the UK...
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Fresh calls for degree revamp
The number of first and upper second class degrees awarded has increased for the fourth year in succession, prompting fresh calls for reform to the degree classification system. A total of 32,500...
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Students win payouts for 'regrettable difficulties'
Sheffield University has offered payments totalling more than £22,000 to students on a troubled masters degree course. In the latest move reflecting a growing consumer-rights culture on university...
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Drilling stuff
Stephen Flint and David Hodgson of Liverpool University's department of earth and ocean sciences are helping a consortium of 11 of the world's leading oil companies to accurately identify...