Pilgrims flock to wrong location
The real Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and is not the Egyptian mountain Jebel Musa visited by thousands of pilgrims and tourists every year, according to a respected scientist. Colin Humphreys,...
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Staff quit before they get ahead
Hundreds of young lecturers are quitting universities each year before their careers get off the ground, trade union Natfhe said this week. Figures show that 300 lecturers left academe last year...
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Findings: Decline in vCJD deaths
Any epidemic of variant CJD, the human form of the cattle brain disease BSE, may be much smaller than previously feared, according to new evidence, writes Natasha Gilbert. In a study published in the...
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Medical bursaries could avert recruitment crisis
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision Medical students should get maintenance bursaries if the National Health Service is to avert a time bomb in the recruitment...
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Paper is short on 'long view'
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision MPs look set to attack the government's higher education white paper for its lack of a coherent, longer-term vision. Members...
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Livingstone warns against diverting research funds
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision Further research concentration will undermine most of the capital's universities and fail to meet employers' demands for a...
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Whistleblowers: Dismissal branded as grotesque and contrived
Lecturers are demanding the reinstatement of a professor sacked for alleged gross misconduct after 25 years at Liverpool John Moores University. Natfhe, the lecturers' union, claimed the university...
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Whistleblowers: Protection matters
Employees who turn to the media to blow the whistle on malpractice or crime at work can win legal protection from victimisation, according to an analysis of cases in the first three years of the...
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Swansea gives size and speed priority
An audit of Swansea University's website by accessibility firm Nomensa showed it to have limited accessibility and not to be compliant with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act. Despite a...
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Grant targets website access for the disabled
A new grants programme will help save the education community millions of pounds as it struggles to comply with strict accessibility legislation in the European Year of the Disabled. The EduServ...
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Health tie extended
The strategic alliance between St George's Hospital Medical School and Kingston University is being extended to cover teaching, research and clinical service. The governing bodies of both...
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Awards for dreamers
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is offering nearly £500,000 to 12 top thinkers - all they have to do is dream, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Next week Nesta will launch a new...
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Adults' interest in lifelong learning continues to wane
Participation in adult learning suffered a steep decline over the past 12 months, a survey will reveal this weekend. On the eve of Adult Learners' Week, the poll of 5,000 adults suggests that...
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Clarke lays into useless history
Education secretary Charles Clarke has again attacked learning for learning's sake by saying that the public purse should not fund "ornamental" subjects such as medieval history. Mr Clarke told a...
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Reality checks for Tory policy
The Conservative Party will fine-tune its revamped higher education policy by consulting key people in the sector, shadow education spokesman Damian Green said this week. Mr Green said that the party...