Update: 12:25
Hefce gets new directors Three new directors have been appointed to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Liz Beaty, director of higher education development at Coventy University, will...
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Eighty per cent want rise in university funding A significant percentage of voters want the government to put more money into universities to match the planned expansion in higher education places,...
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Today's news
Eighty per cent want rise in university funding A significant percentage of voters wants the government to put more money into universities to match the planned expansion in higher education places,...
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Update: 12:40
Queen's Belfast hosts future of Europe conference Some 200 academics, senior civil servants and government officials are gathering this week at Queen's University Belfast to discuss the future of...
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Update: 13:20
Help students engage in politics, says NUS leader National Union of Students president, Mandy Telford, today backed calls to engage more young people in politics. Commenting on the findings of a...
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Today's news
Lack of cash puts gene banks in jeopardy The world’s ability to feed itself as the human population expands is in jeopardy because the gene banks where seed and plant varieties of food crops are...
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Editor ready to take on publishing monopolies
David Prosser, the journals commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, is to head a European organisation that aims to break the monopolies that traditional publishers have on research...
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RSVP - and bring a bottle-nosed dolphin
Archaeologists have found evidence that the Anglo-Saxons hunted and wiped out dolphins in the Humber estuary. Excavations at a site at Flixborough have uncovered 350 fragments of bone and teeth from...
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Ulster science park gets £3.5m addition
Ulster University is expanding the award-winning science park on its Magee campus with a £3.5 million building, due to open in 2003. Chris Barnett, Ulster's director of science and technology...
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Queen's astronomers win £1m for research
Astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast, have won more than £1 million for a series of research projects. The funding includes £545,000 from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council....
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IBM camp aims to turn girls on to engineering
IBM Greenock is hosting a week-long technology camp for 30 Scottish schoolgirls in a bid to boost their interest in science and maths and to encourage them to consider a career in engineering. Jane...
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Heart-throb set to get medics' pulses racing
Harvey is a tall, dark heart-throb who will soon be enrolled at every medical school in the country. The British Heart Foundation is investing £1 million in a nationwide project giving medical...
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UK graduates earn highest rate of return
British graduates earn a better rate of return on their degree studies than counterparts in any comparable country, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development....
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Spin-off funding spells danger
Plans to part-fund universities via their commercial activities could have "grave consequences" for society, according to the elite Russell Group of institutions. The Higher Education Funding Council...
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Gene banks struggle to protect agricultural heritage
The future of the world's gene banks, set up as safe havens for humankind's agricultural heritage, is in jeopardy. Research by scientists from Imperial College, Wye, found that many of the crop...