Jisc lends £80m hand
The Joint Information Systems Committee has unveiled plans to invest an extra £80 million in education and research over the next two years. This includes the launch of a national e-learning advisory...
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Winning theories
The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics has been given to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling for work on game theory. Dr Schelling is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland. Dr Aumann is an...
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Global stars join RAE
The higher education funding councils this week named more than 50 academics from overseas universities and institutes who will, for the first time, bring an international dimension to the strategic...
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Glees report on terror riles v-cs
Furious vice-chancellors this week condemned research by a leading intelligence expert that concluded that UK universities were being used as recruiting grounds for extremists and terrorists. In a...
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OU acts on quality concerns
The standard of degrees awarded in the name of the Open University by almost 50 of its partner institutions around the world has been called into question. As The Times Higher went to press, the...
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Director retires as writ is dropped
The director of an art and design college has retired after a storm over a colleague who left to join a rival institution, writes Jessica Shepherd. Vaughan Grylls, who has been at the helm of the...
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'Spiritual homes' of mature learners turn to youngsters
Birkbeck, University of London, and the Open University, for decades spiritual homes to Britain's mature students, are to turn their attentions to school-leavers, because they have believe that they...
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Oxford dons call for close eye on top rank
A group of senior Oxford academics has called for a new system of "checks and balances" on the way their university is run, including a "board of scrutiny" to keep a close eye on decisions made by...
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Scientists aim to jet propel sailors to Olympic glory
British scientists claim to have discovered how their country can win more Olympic gold medals in sailing. Physicists from University College London and Reading University have uncovered the...
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Student poll is 'not valid'
The Government's flagship national poll of student satisfaction was declared invalid this week by leading members of the steering group that helped design the survey. Harvey Goldstein, professor of...
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UK risks lead in stem cells, warns expert
The UK's reputation for world-class research and its ability to retain pioneers in key areas of science will collapse unless acute funding problems are resolved, a top stem-cell researcher who is...
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V-c slams tribunal 'Catch-22'
London South Bank University has wasted a "prodigious amount of money" defending itself against tribunal cases that had little chance of succeeding, according to Deian Hopkin, the vice-chancellor....
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Harvard rules the medical world
ߣߣÊÓƵ is the surprising second power after the US in 2005, says Martin Ince Harvard Medical School is still the world's best, according to our expert peer review panel of medical researchers. For...
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Americans dominate non-university sector
The data on the world's most productive institutions for medical research outside the university sector for 2005 differ significantly from last year's data because the threshold of 5,000 papers has...
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Salary rises to come at a price
Beleaguered scientific researchers will get a fivefold pay rise after the Russian Academy of Science reached an agreement with the Prime Minister, Mikhail Fradkov. The deal, which is expected to be...