Student number targets raised
Further education funding chiefs are raising the growth targets that colleges must achieve if they are to avoid having money clawed back from their budgets. The move comes as a growing number of...
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Support is sought for degrees tailor-made for UK's athletes
Universities are teaming up with sports bodies to create adaptable degree structures for athletes, for use both during and after their sporting careers. The Athlete and Career Education programme is...
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Lecturer treads on Derby.org domain
A senior academic at Derby University has been suspended for gross misconduct for trying to sell website addresses bearing the university's name. Senior lecturer Mark Challinor bought the rights to...
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Backache project benefits from Pounds 12 million grant
Scottish higher education institutions will aim to help guard against miscarriages of justice, improve the understanding of back pain, investigate lifestyle changes and tackle land erosion, in a...
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Don's Diary
Weekend Combination of catching up on piles of reading marked "not urgent", domestic matters put off for weeks; and preparation for a visit to Kyrgyzstan. It is here, in Central Asia (formerly part...
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Fender a mite fidgety
Funding council chiefs Sir Brian Fender and Bahram Bekhradnia might be forgiven for looking a little uncomfortable when they appeared before the Commons select committee on education last week....
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A bitter taste
Campaigning against GM-food toting multinational food companies such as Monsanto and Novartis can be thirsty work. So Friends of the Earth activists were happy to celebrate the end of Real Food Week...
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Cheap limbs for sale?
Today and tomorrow you can help the finances of one of Britain's less prosperous universities while adding to your cultural life. The London College of Music and Media in west London is selling a...
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Faludy now a scribbler
Whatever happened to Alexander Faludy, last heard of in 1998 as he started his first day at the University of Cambridge, aged 15. The Peterhouse undergraduate, studying art history and theology, who...
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One relaxed v-c
The pressure of the past few weeks has not robbed Colin Lucas, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, of his humour. At the opening of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Lucas...
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Francis Collins
It took months of deliberation - and one refusal - before Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, agreed to take on such a key role in producing the "first draft of...
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On the move
Eric Thomas, dean of the faculty of medicine, health and biological sciences and recently appointed deputy vice-chancellor (designate) at the University of Southampton, has been recommended to...
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Glittering prizes
Joanna Bourke, professor of history at Birkbeck College, is joint winner of this year's Wolfson Prize for historical writing for her book An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th...
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From Nasa to knickers
Space technology is being used to solve the problem of incontinence. Geoff Watts reports. A medical system that can transplant a failing heart or rejoin a severed limb still cannot offer a wholly...
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Cutting edge
University museums once took the lead in conserving our heritage. With a little modest investment, they can do so again. According to Phillips' New World of Words (1706), a museum was "a study or...