Concern for science
Is scientific integrity being compromised by political and commercial pressures? asks Tom Wakeford For the scientific academy the Royal Society, and a host of previously respected UK scientific...
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Premiership before principles
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Euro-appeal to students
The second phase of Europe's giant Socrates programme was launched in the United Kingdom this week with the message that the country must do more to promote study on the Continent. Despite efforts to...
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Lib-Dems plan rethink on fees policy
Top-up tuition fees and grants are on the Liberal Democrats' agenda for radical reform of their higher education policy. The Liberal Democrats are setting up a working group to assess whether the...
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Women attack ILT red tape and sexism
Female members of the Association of University Teachers have called for a union ballot to consider rejecting the Institute for Learning and Teaching. The annual meeting of the AUT women's committee...
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Glimmer of hope
Using viruses to transport new genes into the brain may one day offer relief to sufferers of neurological disorders. Geoff Watts reports Intent on finding a better way to treat Parkinson's disease,...
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Desert roamed during Ice Age
Scientists have tracked the shifting sands of the Kalahari through 180,000 years of history to gain an unprecedented glimpse at how climate shifts have affected the evolution of a desert. Research by...
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Farming threat to UK wetlands
The wholesale destruction of the United Kingdom's estuary wetlands has raised the prospect of harmful algal blooms one day forming off the east coast. Vast amounts of nitrates and phosphates used in...
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Birds eat birds as fish runs out
An aggressive elite of great skuas is increasingly ditching a diet of fish in favour of eating other seabirds. The dietary switch among a super-fit minority of the species is being blamed for a fall...
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Cutting edge
Do universities own copyright in materials produced by academics? This seemingly simple question opens a can of worms The law is explicit: normally, the owner of the copyright in some work is the...
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When are retired academics not...?
...when they continue to work part-time. Barbara Tizard unveils the results of a detailed survey of what becomes of lecturers and professors Academics, like the rest of the population, are living...
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Orthodox colleges approved in Israel
JERUSALEM A plan to create the first haredi (ultra-orthodox) college, with separate classes for men and women, has been approved in principle by Israel's Council for Higher Education. While separate...
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Freedom victory for Iranian scholars
TEHRAN The reformist victory in Iran's parliamentary elections has allowed a modernising role for the country's academics and universities. "This new democratic atmosphere will lead to a greater role...
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What are foundation degrees?
Educationists and employers arestruggling to define the nature and role of foundation degrees, writes Alan Thomson. The group designing the degrees held its first meeting last Friday. Its first task...
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Georgia is over-educated
TBILISI State university rectors in Georgia are seeking tighter laws on higher education accreditation in the wake of a boom in private colleges since the collapse of communism. Since 1991, more than...