Harm reduction
Scientists and policy-makers will this week to discuss whether terrorists could use the results of life-science research to engineer deadly viruses. The summit, "Do No Harm: Reducing the Potential...
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Just ask for cash
UK universities must stop thinking it is wrong to ask for donations and become far more active fundraisers, Malcolm Grant, president and provost of University College London, said this week at the...
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The one who stayed and the one who left
Stewart Barr graduated with a 2:1 from Exeter University's geography department in 1998. He then completed a PhD on waste management and was well placed to go into the commercial sector, but chose to...
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Contract staff laid off in preparation for EU law
Fears are growing that universities may lay off academics on casual contracts rather than give them the permanent jobs to which they are entitled under European regulations. Universities have until...
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Tories pledge early action to ditch fees
Phil Baty reports from the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth. A Conservative government would move to abolish all tuition fees in its first week in office, Tim Collins, Shadow Education...
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It's my party...
Richard Teather, a lecturer at Bournemouth University, accepts that it is not a great time to be a member of the Conservative Party. After voters in last week's Hartlepool by-election put the...
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QAA's critical report attacked
The head of Britain's first specialist arts university has questioned the integrity of the Quality Assurance Agency after his institution was criticised by the standards watchdog in an audit report....
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Fury at plans to prune council
Imperial College London plans to become the first UK university to get rid of its elected staff and student governors. Staff and students are furious at the proposal to remove six elected staff...
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Vet who can make a dog's life a bit more bearable
Danny Mills may not be able to talk to the animals like the fictional character Doctor Dolittle, but he certainly understands them better than most. Professor Mills holds the UK's first chair in...
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EPSRC's lifeline for 'problem' sciences
A select list of universities has been invited to bid for grants from a multimillion-pound pilot fund designed to save "problem" science subjects. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...
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Europeans first to get beers in
The modern pint of beer was an ancient European invention and not a product of the cradle of civilisation. A leading scholar this week rejected the widely accepted theory that the world's most...
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Scots cheered by budget fillip
The promise of record investment has given Scottish universities the confidence and financial clout to compete with their fee-charging counterparts in England, higher education leaders said this week...
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Petition appeals for honesty in public life
As ߣߣÊÓƵns prepare to vote in tomorrow's federal elections, more than 400 senior academics - including 160 professors from every public university - have condemned the "dishonesty and duplicity"...
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A system without marked values
Bob Brecher has an idea that might solve the admissions conundrum The silly season this year was much as expected: the best-ever A/AS-level results, naturally, and the usual complaints from...
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Broke, lonely and obsessing?
You must be doing a PhD. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Harriet Swain. It's all in the preparation - and in the kind of relationship you have with your mentor Hooray, you've been accepted...