More strings and less cash as v-cs revolt
Funding chiefs will today launch a ten-year strategy to reshape higher education. Universities will be expected to excel in at least one of four areas - teaching, research, reach-out and widening...
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Chancellor to open e-science centre
* Chancellor Gordon Brown is to open the National E-Science Centre at Edinburgh University next Thursday. The centre, which is being run jointly with Glasgow University, received £5.5 million over...
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Strikers picket during Princess Anne's visit
Princess Anne was confronted by striking workers fighting budget cuts at King's College London when she visited the college's medical school this week. About 40 members of public-sector union Unison...
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Crac wins graduate schools contract
The Careers Research Advisory Centre has been awarded the contract to run the research councils' graduate schools programme for the next five years. The scheme is the main provider of training in...
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Hall rent hikes price out poorer students
Poorer students are being priced out of privatised halls of residence as rents rocket above inflation, public sector union Unison says. A Unison report says that rents have risen by up to 22 per cent...
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Guide advises how to aid women's careers
The Athena Project has launched a guide to good practice on how universities can reduce the barriers to women's career progression. Contact: Athena@ecu.ac.uk
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Next week
News Manchester united: Manchester University and Umist v-cs speak for the first time about plans to merge and create a super-university Features Avi Shlaim outlines a new way forward in the Middle...
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£295 million halls deal makes history
Nottingham Trent University is to transfer management of its student accommodation to the private sector, the first time a United Kingdom university has made such a deal. In a deal worth a total of £...
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Natfhe demands warning of job cuts
Lecturers' union Natfhe has warned London vice-chancellors that they must consult unions over significant job cuts. University of Greenwich staff are being offered voluntary severance, particularly...
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Institutions given cash to help in Europe
Liverpool John Moores University is one of several British higher education institutions that have secured grants from the latest €29.4 million (£18 million) budget for the European Union's Tempus...
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Hospital and university join for clinical research
The University of Lincoln and the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have created a joint fund to sponsor clinical, biomedical and biological research and to bring clinical and academic...
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European academics sign petition on Israel
More than 400 academics across Europe have signed a petition that calls for a research and cultural boycott of Israel. The petition will be presented to British and European parliamentarians. It says...
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Biotech institutes earn grant boost
The Roslin Institute will see its sponsorship from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council rise by 9 per cent on average over the next two years. The BBSRC's review of the...
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Cornish target families with no degree tradition
Plymouth University launched a scheme this week to widen participation from Cornish schoolchildren coming from families where there is no tradition of university study. Participants will receive...
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Fall guy needed for stratospheric leap
Scientists are planning to send a human test subject plummeting 38km from the edge of the stratosphere - the greatest freefall distance yet attempted. The team, led by experts from the Universitat...