Arts given a research council
Arts and humanities researchers were given their own research council this week, putting the discipline on an equal footing with the sciences. From April 1, the sector will be funded by the Arts and...
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Anglia set to drop 'poly' from title
The Privy Council looks set to be asked to endorse Anglia University as the new name for the last UK institution to include the word "polytechnic" in its title, writes Paul Hill. David Tidmarsh, vice...
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Whodunnit? It was probably this scientist...
Cancer researcher Chris McCabe has just completed his most novel experiment to date. Or more precisely, he has just completed his most experimental novel to date. Dr McCabe is a lecturer in...
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Poor English skills force foreign students to use translators
Overseas students are employing professional translators to help them write essays and dissertations because their English is so poor, The Times Higher has learnt. The problem came to light this week...
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Female scholars' suffering revealed
An unprecedented review of research into women in higher education in the developing world has revealed massive discrimination, including widespread sexual violence and harassment. Louise Morley,...
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Smart weapons
20 Royal Engineers have become the first serving British Army soldiers to graduate with foundation degrees. The troops, members of 42 Regiment, are all geographic technicians and did foundation...
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Abstaining MPs turn against tertiary act
The Government would have to rely on the Speaker's casting vote to get their university reforms onto the statute book if MPs could vote again on the Higher Education Act. A poll of backbenchers by...
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Pundits predict a narrow Labour win
Tony Blair will win the 2005 general election with a majority of 70 to 100 MPs, according to three separate academic forecasts of the likely result on polling day, writes Paul Hill. The forecasts,...
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NAO tells Wales to turn out the lights
Welsh universities could save at least £500,000 a year just by switching off lights in unoccupied rooms and adopting other energy saving measures. A report from the National Audit Office says that...
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Vatican strategy 'shameful'
Italy's scientific community is furious over a Vatican campaign to undermine a referendum to repeal restrictive legislation on stem-cell research and artificial insemination. Late this year, Italians...
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French seek future security
French researchers have written to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin demanding negotiations on long-term budgetary and employment planning for research that they claim should be central to proposed...
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Bologna progress slow for former Soviet states
Belarus, under pro-Russian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, remains the only European nation where the official attitude to the Bologna Process of convergence between university systems ranges from...
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Minister pelted with eggs in protest at reform
Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko was heckled and pelted with raw eggs as he announced plans for a three-tier university system topped by 20 elite institutions. He announced the location of...
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The ߣߣÊÓƵn Government plans to encourage foreign universities to open alongside the nation's state universities by allowing home students who enrol to take out government loans. Brendan Nelson,...
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Green light for Bhutan
The Royal University of Bhutan got the go-ahead to admit international students and to accept gifts and endowments to finance its work at a traditional ceremony attended by ministers and academics,...