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Wellcome Trust closes Oxford centre The Wellcome Trust is disbanding its Oxford University-based Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, because its search for a new director had...
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From today's UK papers
DAILY TELEGRAPH The British Library is to cull its senior management and switch resources to electronic information gathering Thirty years of effort by America's universities to attract more women...
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Extra cash helps plug Russian brain drain Russia is to pump an extra $60 million (£41.5 million) into salaries and technical facilities, housing and conferences next year to help plug the under-40s...
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Staff take action to protest pay offer Academics and university support staff from five trade unions are taking part in a national day of action against the latest pay offer from vice-...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The government has decided against bringing forward new measures in the Queen's speech to crack down on militant animal rights activists THE GUARDIAN John Gray, professor of European...
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Higher education appointments
University of Portsmouth Wolfram Kaiser has been appointed professor of European studies. He has previously been a senior research fellow and lecturer at the Universities of Edinburgh, Vienna, Paris...
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Higher education grants
The University of Huddersfield The following have received research grants: P. Barnes , £181,294 from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (new metal carbon coated ceramic...
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Latest international news
Italian men shirk from shrinks A study by Rome’s La Sapienza University has revealed that 75 per cent of Italian males between 25 and 55 who sought psychiatric treatment were accompanied by...
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Health professionals get £6 million boost The government has announced a £6 million package to support the training and careers of health professionals. The National Health Service plans to increase...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Harvard Business School and Stanford University are exploring plans to develop and deliver online courses in executive and management education. DAILY TELEGRAPH Scientists from...
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Grey areas on the blacklist
The received wisdom is not the whole story, writes Brian Josephson.Robert Park’s book is basically an attack on dubious science, which he calls “voodoo science”. Categories discussed include: claimed...
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V-c departure angers staff
Staff at the University of Northumbria say their vice-chancellor has destabilised the institution by announcing that he will be leaving next year, following a clash with his board of governors....
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Peer finds way to modify man
Powerful techniques to create transgenic animals and humans and to isolate stem cells from their tissue have been patented by Lord Winston, the Labour peer and Imperial College scientist. The new...
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Hefce risks run-in over board
Funding chiefs risk the wrath of the government after last week's appointment of three white men to the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. By April 2003, women should form 45...
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Exit CVCP, enter Universities UK
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals relaunched itself this week as Universities UK as part of a corporate strategy to raise the profile of higher education. Several projects have been...