Analysis: Science cheats
* A Turkish institution set up a committee of investigation to look into allegations of misconduct brought to its attention by a British journal. Some of the published paper's co-authors had...
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Analysis: Co-authors should play greater role in ensuring validity of research
The responsibility of co-authors of collaborative academic papers has emerged as a key issue in the wake of the Bell Labs research fraud scandal, writes Steve Farrar. The independent investigative...
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Libraries dismayed at journals inquiry findings
Academics and university libraries are disappointed by the outcome of a year-long inquiry by the Office of Fair Trading into the academic journals market, writes Caroline Davis. The OFT said the...
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Dinosaur becomes science ambassador
Bristol University has a couple of new recruits working on its widening-participation programme - a science education officer and an assistant a few million years her senior. Thecodontosaurus was one...
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Findings: Birdlife nearly wiped out
The catastrophe that spelt doom for dinosaurs may have come close to wiping out birds as well, according to a new study. A statistical analysis of fossils that date from before and after the mass...
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Findings: The perils of peppery food
The chemicals that give many of the world's favourite cuisines their peppery "zing" may be carcinogenic, new research has suggested. An epidemiological study found elevated levels of stomach and...
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Peaceline plan under scrutiny
Northern Ireland's "peaceline" campus has had a major question mark placed over its future. Despite being ten years in the planning, and with £40 million earmarked for it, there are serious doubts...
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Union claims funds 'fiddle'
France's research budget for 2003 has provoked accusations of government fiddling of the figures to show an increase in spending. Minister Claudie Haignere claimed her €9.56 billion (£6 billion)...
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Thieves exit with rector's priceless medallion
Thieves have stolen the antique gold medallion traditionally worn by the rector of Bologna University on ceremonial occasions. Along with the rector's medallion and its gold chain, the thieves who...
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Competition hots up for students
Tens of thousands of American students who have only just begun their final year of high school have already sent off their applications for college. By the middle of December, they will know whether...
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Hard-up Dutch v-c set to sell art assets
The vice-chancellor of the Netherlands' oldest university has said he may have to sell some of the university's most valuable manuscripts and art works because of cuts in higher education. In his...
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'Sudan tradition will scar women for life'
Omdurman Islamic University in Sudan is planning to train birth attendants to carry out female circumcision - a practice that is illegal in Sudanese and international law. Some 89 per cent of married...
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Law faculty awaits verdict in 'race discrimination' claim
The law faculty at the City University of Hong Kong will have to wait until November at the earliest for an independent committee to deliver its review of the dismissal of ten law lecturers last year...
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Ghana challenges critical World Bank
The World Bank unfairly singled out Ghana for an invidious comparison with South Korea in its draft report on higher education, the vice-chancellor of the country's leading university has said. Ivan...
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Prospects grim for researcher held in Aceh
ߣߣÊÓƵn academics have condemned the detention of British researcher Lesley McCulloch and two friends in the Indonesian province of Aceh for the past three weeks. Until June, Dr McCulloch lectured...