Nutkin battles with red rivals
Genetic testing has revealed that most of Britain's supposedly indigenous red squirrels are probably recent European interlopers that have left their native cousins clinging on in isolated...
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Terry eagleton on the very english love affair with the essay Also Founding father: volume one of a new biography of the anthropologist Malinowski reviewed by Nigel Barley Focus: Economics David Bell...
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Courses cost £44K
The cost to the public purse of offering courses through the Government's failed e-university runs to £44,000 per student, ministers admitted this week. Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Labour education...
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LSC appoints chairman
The Learning and Skills Council has announced that Chris Banks, chief executive of food and drinks firm Bigthoughts and a member of the national LSC, has been appointed its chairman. He will be paid...
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Iraq protester wins poll
An academic who stripped to his underwear and donned a hood outside a Labour Party office in protest against the Iraq War, has been elected to the city council in the constituency of Charles Clarke,...
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£4m boost for Queen's
Newspaper tycoon Sir Anthony O'Reilly has helped to provide Queen's University Belfast with $7 million (£4 million) towards a £40 million library. The funding includes a personal donation of £2...
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FE watchdog reshaped
Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has announced plans to introduce a streamlined "light-touch" inspection system for further education next year. He told the Learning and Skills Development...
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Scholars in BBC review
Academics make up four of the six members of a panel appointed by Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, to assist with the review of the BBC's Royal Charter. They are Sir Alan Budd, provost of Queen's...
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London Met strike on
Lecturers' union Natfhe is preparing to strike at London Metropolitan University after 67 per cent of lecturers voted in favour of strike, and 81 per cent in favour of action short of a strike, on a...
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Anonymity loss stifles research
A university-based sperm donation centre has given up trying to recruit donors because fears about loss of anonymity are driving away volunteers, MPs were told this week. The long-running debate...
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Business-link cash handed out by Hefce
Funding chiefs this week revealed which universities will host England's 22 knowledge exchange centres as part of a £186 million boost for higher education-business links. The announcement of the...
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Child medics 'disturbed' by GMC ruling
The General Medical Council's ruling against paediatrician David Southall could drive experts away from child protection work, leading medics claimed this week, writes Anna Fazackerley. The GMC found...
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Regulation bill cut by 25%
The cost of red-tape and regulation has been cut by 25 per cent in four years, according to a new report revealed exclusively in today's Times Higher . But a "conservative estimate" from a study for...
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Quango famed for red tape set to cross divide
Universities could soon be home to two distinct "classes" of academic under moves to give further education planners more of a say in higher education. The Times Higher has learnt that significant...
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Colleges win £130m to plug gap
College heads this week welcomed news of a one-off £130 million boost for further education, writes Tony Tysome. The extra cash was announced by the Government on Monday after emergency talks between...