Business told not to whinge
British business should stop "whingeing" about the perceived shortcomings of universities and address the damaging decline in their own research and development activities, according to Richard...
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Working group to resolve email overload
The discovery that staff at Newcastle University sent and received more than 100 million emails in the past year - double the number for 2000 - has prompted moves to resolve the mounting information...
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Wearable computers to liberate academia
Welcome to the campus without walls. The advent of wearable, mobile computing has the potential to liberate students, researchers and academics from the physical confines of lecture theatres,...
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Comic finds a laugh on physics website
A one-in-3-billion chance encounter with a group of US physicists provided the spark of inspiration for a sell-out tour by British comedian Dave Gorman. Mr Gorman happened upon the American Physical...
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UCL marks 30 years of e-networking
The UK's first electronic messages were full of complaints about unexpected delays, writes Steve Farrar. Yet the bouts of lethargy that would suddenly afflict the net when Peter Kirstein was trying...
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Let's junk baffling jargon, says new LSC boss
Words such as "provider", "underpinning", "stakeholder" and "learner" may be banished from Learning and Skills Council documents as part of a jargon-busting crusade launched by new chief executive...
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Another tier as red tape is cut
College funding chiefs have promised to cut the red tape crippling the sector by creating a new tier of regional management. Mark Haysom, the new chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council,...
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Bureaucracy buster on cards
A "gatekeeper" body to check government policies for excessive red tape is likely to be set up next year. The Department for Education and Skills' Better Regulation Review Group says in its interim...
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Belgians bemoan the Dutch invasion
Inhabitants of Belgium's frontier villages are losing patience with students from the University of Maastricht who are attracted to the area by cheap accommodation. Vroenhoven and Kanne - less than...
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French fear course loss
France's professional university institutes (IUPs) fear that European harmonisation plans threaten their courses and the degrees they award. In statements issued after an extraordinary general...
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Most US students crib from internet
The majority of US undergraduates use the internet to do research and most say they know of classmates who use it to cheat, according to an annual survey of university students. The National Survey...
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Swedes' funding focus call
Sweden's academic community wants increased competition for research grants between universities, with some concentrating on research, while others focus more on teaching. A paper drawn up by the...
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Senate shuns 'dangerous' reform bills
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government's plans for higher education reform have been rejected by the senate. In a scathing report on the reforms proposed by education minister Brendan Nelson, a senate committee...
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Rectors lean tentatively towards fees
German university rectors have expressed cautious support for fees as the Bonn government seems to be backtracking on electoral promises to block any such move. In Berlin recently, the president of...
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Anger at plan for Italy's own MIT
The Italian government's plans to spend €100 million (£70 million) a year on a new national research institute while cutting resources for universities and existing research institutions have divided...