World wakes up to 505m-year-old ugly bug
For decades, a bizarre, grub-like creature called Hallucigenia has stumped experts. But next week a true likeness of 505 million-year-old animal will be unveiled at the Palaeontological Association's...
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Milburn warned of threat to growth
The health secretary's refusal to renegotiate the consultants' contract could exacerbate the shortage of medical academics and undermine the expansion of medical education, the British Medical...
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Row over funds for Welsh science
A paper calling for a properly funded science policy for Wales has caused a row between Welsh Assembly members and their ministers. The paper was submitted to the assembly's economic development...
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Proposal may help protect patents
Proposed changes to UK patent law could make it cheaper to apply for patents and make them easier to enforce and protect than at present. They could enable universities to make the most of the...
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Whistleblowers: MP censures Tameside over rule-breaking
Ministers have "strongly censured" the principal and governors of Tameside College for "wilfully" breaking the rules of governance when they removed the college clerk and chair of governors from...
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Whistleblowers: Oxford faces third hearing of race case
Oxford University may have to face allegations of race discrimination from black researcher Chinese Anya for a third time after the employment tribunal granted him leave to appeal against the latest...
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Arts postgrads fail to fulfil career hopes
A quarter of arts and humanities postgraduates feel that having a doctorate has failed to help them fulfil their career expectations, research has found. The first study into the careers of arts and...
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Divided UK not told whole story
In the post-devolutionary UK, nations are not speaking unto nations through the media, but mostly unto themselves, according to research at Edinburgh University. John MacInnes, reader in sociology at...
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Teacher training in London to get lifeline
Ministers are planning to give premium payments to London's teacher training providers after they warned they may no longer be able to educate the next generation of teachers without more money. Two...
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Fear for Japan studies
Japanese studies are facing an "insecure" future in the UK, with nine institutions axeing courses, undergraduate numbers falling and libraries facing acute budget shortages. A report by the Daiwa...
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Graduate pay surveyed
A new survey on graduate salaries is to be introduced. From January 15 2004, a "destinations of higher education leavers" questionnaire will replace the "first destinations survey". It will gather...
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AUT calls for boycott
Union leaders this week called on academics to boycott Birmingham University's ceremony to install its new chancellor, Sir Dominic Cadbury. The Association of University Teachers is protesting...
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UU claims e-status
Ulster University says statistics from the International Centre for Distance Learning show that it leads the UK in online masters degrees only a year after launching its virtual campus, Campus One....
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DataGrid taken for spin
About 30 researchers across the country have this week been road-testing the revolutionary European DataGrid (EDG). They hope to become missionaries for its use in their home institutions. The...
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UK aids Burma students
Four UK institutions are offering courses in nation building to exiled Burmese students who are committed to democratising Burma and who are prepared to return home to rebuild the country. The London...