Presidential honour
South African president Thabo Mbeki this week came to Glasgow Caledonian University to name the Govan Mbeki health building in honour of his father, a veteran of the fight against apartheid. Govan...
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£8 million for Scots projects
Light-emitting wallpaper, computer systems for older people and fish immunology are among 11 Scottish projects to share more than £8 million from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. This...
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Route treatment
A simulation laboratory to teach clinical operative skills has opened at the University of Liverpool. It allows students to learn intricate operative procedures by watching demonstrations on video...
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Notes transfer site is a big hit
A website for exchanging lecture notes and transcripts of lectures set up by two economics students at La Sapienza University in Rome now has 75,000 registered members and 1 million "contacts" a...
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Team harnesses energy of waves for green power
A team of European small companies and universities has launched an experimental energy device in Plymouth to harness sea wave power efficiently. The device, about 4.5m in diameter and descending 12m...
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Lighter teaching exams show no enlightenment
France is dropping Shakespeare from tests for future teachers. Ruth Morse says the implications are not good. For the second time in three years, Shakespeare has been displaced from France's national...
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Bidding for cash is a time waster
Funding of higher education should be mission-based, writes Patricia Ambrose. The funding needs of higher education have been a major topic of debate of late. Universities UK recently published its...
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Why I... believe architecture is a craft as well as an art
Greg Votolato. Professor of design Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe In the 1948 film The Fountainhead , Gary Cooper's character, Howard Roark, defined the image of the...
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Meet the fresh faces that count
Estelle Morris Secretary of state for education and skills Estelle Morris is likely to bring a "straight-talking breath of fresh air" to higher education policy, according to an academic who has...
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Netgazette
City University Steve Miller , former director of the institute of health sciences, has been appointed deputy vice chancellor. Brendan Casey , former deputy librarian, has been appointed university...
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Latest UK news
Leak row exam board highlights pupil pressures Edexcel, the exam board at the centre of the leaked A-level papers row, has highlighted the pressures on pupils to get into university as a...
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Latest international news
Ivy leaguers vie for techno prize Ivy League rivals Harvard and Stanford are competing to establish an institute to study the effect of technology on politics and economics with a $150 million...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Tristem, a biotechnology company with roots in Britain, Ireland and Saudi Arabia, has unveiled a technique for turning back the biological clock by converting blood cells...
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Reshuffle raises cash hopes
Post-election restructuring of the Department for Education and Employment has raised hopes of more money for higher and further education. Leaders this week welcomed the creation of the Department...
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Analysis: Science comes in from cold
Research has grown in stature: ministers are giving it more cash and inviting it into the political fold. Caroline Davis reports. When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, there...