UK poor cousins to US tech transfers
UK universities earn paltry sums from their research compared with their North American counterparts, a new survey has shown. In 2001, more than $1 billion (£610 million) was generated by the 198 US...
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Bristol v-c to boost giving
Eric Thomas, the vice-chancellor of Bristol University, has been appointed head of the new task force on giving that was promised in the white paper on higher education earlier this year. The white...
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Shell funds green chair at Imperial
Shell oil company is giving £500,000 to fund a chair in sustainable development in energy at Imperial College London as part of its sustainable energy strategy. Michael Warner, head of the department...
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IT offers kickstart to Welsh economy
The University of Glamorgan is developing a raft of programmes that could help foster business regeneration in the valleys of South Wales. As proposals take shape for a super-university created...
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Summer schools fail to woo high-fliers
Summer schools for gifted children at five universities are struggling to recruit because parents say their residential courses are too long. The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth has so...
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Need a little help figuring it out?
Students at Coventry University sing the praises of a drop-in centre offering one-to-one support for those struggling with maths, says Duncan Lawson The so-called "mathematics problem" is not a 21st-...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Joe Kyle Age: 53 Job: Senior lecturer in mathematics, University of Birmingham, and mathematics coordinator, Learning...
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Eureka! Come and play to demystify those materials
Engineering and design students had no feel for composites until they were brought together by Caroline Baillie When I first walked into Rhode Island School of Design some years back, I was...
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Summertime blues emerge
Gastroenteritis, or winter vomiting disease, has for the first time peaked during the summer months in England and Wales, writes Natasha Gilbert. UK researchers Mark Reacher and his team from the...
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PC virus course is 'likely to backfire'
A Canadian university is refusing to drop a computer virus writing course despite complaints by anti-virus software companies that it constitutes a threat to computer security. The course, Computer...
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Fears over hike in visa fee
ߣߣÊÓƵ's booming education export industry could be threatened by a federal government decision to increase the fees foreign students pay for their visas and their university courses. Although...
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Europe commits to Bologna but raises fresh doubts about quality
Europe's universities are committed to advancing the Bologna process of convergence by 2010 but have voiced doubts about some issues they will be asked to tackle. Intensive discussions in Graz,...
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France is in the dark over graduate knowledge, report says
Hardly anything is known about what French students learn during their higher education, according to a report that recommends standardised evaluation tests and training...
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Minsk campus loses powers
Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenka has assumed powers to hire or fire the rector of the "flagship" Belarusian State University in Minsk. The university lost its right to elect its rector or to...
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The whore of Harvard
A former assistant to Larry Summers, now president of Harvard University, moonlighted as a prostitute while working in the university's hallowed halls, according to a US magazine. The woman, Kim Airs...