Students aim for stars
Some 30 students from all over Europe will design their own space stations next week for the European Space Agency. The students - who are studying aerospace engineering, architecture and business...
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Says who?
Ballot papers for the election of the next general secretary of the Association of University Teachers go out next week, with three candidates up for the £70,000 job. Former AUT president and...
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Copy that
The University of Texas at Austin has filed a lawsuit against a multinational company accusing it of stealing software and copying it to clients without the necessary distribution licence, an...
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Slaying the spin
The appalling turnout of under 30s at the last general election has prompted a sickening seduction of youthful voters by the major parties. Like bored vampires who have just discovered someone at...
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Mindset change needed to boost opportunities
This week's green paper on 14 to 19 education is an act of courage on the part of a second-term government that has committed itself to delivery above all else as the measure of its success. Like the...
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Don't shut out critics - open the door to debate
Universities must consider how to deal with fundamentalist students in the wake of September 11, says Donald Hagger. Revelations about the involvement of students in extremist Muslim organisations,...
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Two tribes' twinning formula
University staff should take a leaf out of the QAA's book in their battles over pay, says Tom Wilson. Anger over last week's league tables of vice-chancellors' pay and concerns about its secretive...
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One half of double act
The RAE has no future unless it is modified to reconnect research to teaching, argues Roger Brown. There appears to be a near universal view that the 2001 research assessment exercise will be the...
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Why I... believe a debate on what universities are for is vital
Proposals to turn Cambridge from the ancient democratic corporation of masters and scholars into a big business corporation were in the news last week. The vice-chancellor is to get personal...
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Tank slappers and the way to avoid them
A potentially fatal phenomenon that has been haunting motor- cyclists for decades could soon become history. Steve Farrar reports. Although he was just 30 seconds into the race, Paul Orritt's Honda...
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ILA alarm 'not loud enough'
Capita, the organisation that was awarded a £50 million government contract to administer the ill-fated individual learning account scheme, "did not shout loud enough" as potential fraud emerged, one...
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No power to halt BNP recruiters on campus
Greenwich University said this week that it was powerless to prevent members of the British National Party from recruiting students on its campus. Following reports that a Greenwich student was...
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SA institutions face cull
South Africa's universities and technikons should be slashed from 36 to 21 according to a rationalisation proposed by the government to dismantle apartheid-derived racial divides. A national working...
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New convener for Universities Scotland Bill Stevely, principal of Robert Gordon University, has been elected convener of Universities Scotland in succession to Lord Sutherland,...
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Council's progress report (December 2001) on proposal for traceability and labelling of GMOs
Brussels, 14 February 2002 Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms and traceability of food and...