Baroness hits back at laureate's broadside
Britain's best-known female scientist has hit back at her critics after a Nobel laureate attacked her latest book in this week's THES . Philip Anderson begins his review of Oxford professor Susan...
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Divisive research plan axed
Funding chiefs look set to sidestep the government's controversial proposals for further concentration of research as set out in January's higher education white paper. The move represents a near-...
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In the news: Desmond Tutu
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is about to take up his first academic appointment. The former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, who was awarded the peace prize in 1984 for his...
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Toxin sparks organic scare
High levels of a fungal toxin have been found in organic maize products sold in British shops, prompting top scientists to question the safety of this increasingly popular approach to agriculture....
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Charities: cancer research cash eaten up by red tape
MPs and charities are calling on the government to ringfence cancer research funding amid fears that millions of pounds that could help find a cure is being spent on red tape. The Department of...
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Leeds vote signals rift over national pay bargaining
Senior academics at Leeds University have voted in favour of national bargaining, undermining threats by the elite Russell Group, of which Leeds is a member, to set its own pay. The university's...
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Next week
CRUNCH TIME Unions and employers lock horns in the final meeting on pay ALSO Madeleine Albright talks about her academic and political past in international relations and gives her views on America's...
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Bristol hit by meningitis
Bristol University was fighting an outbreak of bacterial meningitis this week after three first years and a second year contracted the disease. All four were admitted to hospital and in a stable...
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Sussex gets tax back
Sussex University has received a £1.5 million windfall after the Court of Appeal ruled in its favour over a tax case dating back to 1973. Sussex had submitted a claim to recover VAT on overheads...
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Corrections
In last week's THES ("Contract sparks row over IP rights", page 8) we said that Richard Lambert was carrying out a review of Cambridge business links for the Treasury. In fact, his remit is to review...
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Merger spawns massive hybrid
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...
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Draft rules threaten ethics review system
Academics are demanding changes to draft legislation that could remove them from the ethics committees that decide which medical experiments are carried out in the UK. All National Health Service...
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'Crude' system sows division
Amartya Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Nobel laureate in economics, this week denounced the Samuel Huntingdon classification of the world into largely religiously defined...
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Alumni take expertise home
A tracer study of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan has found that the overwhelming majority of award holders, 85-90 per cent, return to their home countries as the scheme...
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Ministers back teaching centre
The Commonwealth this week cleared the path for the creation of a centre of excellence for teacher education at Cambridge University. The plan was endorsed at the three-yearly meeting of Commonwealth...