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Davies takes over at LSE Sir Howard Davies, the executive chairman of the Financial Services Authority, has been selected to head the London School of Economics at a time when universities are under...
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Science gets its best deal in years
UK science has got its best financial settlement since the 1960s but delays in revamping the dual-funding system could still cost some laboratories dear. The research councils are to get a major...
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Top-up fees would lead students to shop around
One in six students would switch from their first-choice university to a cheaper one if asked to pay top-up fees, according to a new poll. Early findings of the annual Student Living Survey, released...
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Astronomers battle it out for giant-eye glory
The race to build the largest telescope in the world has galvanised astronomers on both sides of the Atlantic, writes Steve Farrar. Rival European teams have joined forces in a unified bid to create...
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Scots fraud inquiry
Lothian and Borders police have launched an embezzlement inquiry following the disappearance of £20,000 from Jewel and Esk Valley College in Edinburgh. The police are believed to want to interview a...
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Copus to be wound up
The Committee on the Public Understanding of Science is to be wound up after a stormy final year. Set up in 1986, Copus was a joint venture by the Royal Society, the Royal Institution and the British...
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Brits win share of prize
British research groups have shared in the European Union's e1 million (£642,000) Descartes prize, which is designed to reward pan-EU science. One winner includes scientists from Dundee and Edinburgh...
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Downing: no to top-ups
Downing College, Cambridge has made a public statement opposing the introduction of top-up fees. It is the second Cambridge University college to speak out against them. The college said: "Such fees...
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Cash victory for NI
Northern Ireland's two universities have succeeded in their campaign for research funding equal to other parts of the UK. The Department of Finance and Personnel has announced an extra £10 million a...
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Exam probe reveals risk
An independent inquiry into this year's Scottish examination results debacle has warned of "potential risk" in the way results are sent from the Scottish Qualifications Authority to the Universities...
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Reform has failed to erase funding gap between old and new
Higher education reforms over the past decade have had little impact on funding inequalities between institutions or on the structure of the sector, an independent study has concluded. Changing the...
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Telescope 'created by English'
New evidence has emerged to support suggestions that the first telescope was built by an Englishman, writes Steve Farrar. An overlooked manuscript provides the context for claims that Elizabethan...
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'Tighten biotech control'
The government must strengthen its control over biotechnological research in UK universities to reduce the threat from biological weapons, according to MPs. In a report on the government's green...
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Access-driven Hodge eases way for mergers
The government plans to make it easier for universities to collaborate with each other, with further education colleges and with industry as part of a reinvigorated widening participation policy to...
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Whistleblowers: Sister of staff member awarded £11k bursary
Cardiff University Business School has awarded an £11,500 research bursary to the sister of one of its staff after she failed to win funding for her PhD through the school's nationally advertised...