Australian drive for innovation
Industry and academe demand more spending on science and technology, writes Geoff Maslen. Australia's most powerful leaders in business, industry and academe last week called on the federal...
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To be 'e' or not to be 'e'?
The first students to enrol at Britain's new e-university will probably be using traditional distance-learning materials, the funding council has said. The e-university was launched last week by...
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Opposition to entry proposals
Admissions tutors have hit out at proposals to conceal the other institutions to which a potential student has applied, writes Alison Goddard. Under pressure from schools, the Universities and...
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Private students still fare best
Private school students are still more likely to be offered a place at Oxford University than their state school counterparts, despite a significant increase in the number of applications from the...
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Fury over rewriting of history
Historians have accused the state-funded Indian Council for Historical Research of intellectual fascism and academic censorship. The row blew up after the council abruptly suspended a history project...
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A student supporter of Sussex's anti-tuition fees protestors
(Photograph) - Magnificant seven: more than 100 students turned out to support the Sussex Seven, a group of anti-tuition fees protestors from Sussex University, who face a disciplinary panel next...
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No 10 backs Russell elite's freedom fight
The bid today by the Russell Group, Britain's top 20 research universities, for greater financial independence heralds a revolution in British higher education, experts have claimed. A national...
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Bell College promoted to higher echelon
Bell College of Technology has won its bid to become a higher education institution, the first Scottish further education college to move into higher education since incorporation in 1993. Henry...
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Contractors injured in medical school blast
Forensic scientists are investigating the cause of an explosion in a medical school building at Bristol University. Five contractors who were renovating a chemistry laboratory were taken to hospital...
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NHS chief becomes Dundee principal
Sir Alan Langlands (above), chief executive of the National Health Service Executive in England, will become principal of Dundee University from September. He will succeed Ian Graham-Bryce who...
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Bett makes a million with net firm shares
Sir Michael Bett, who chaired the independent pay review committee for higher education, made more than Pounds 1 million on paper in just a few hours last week. His 1.15 per cent stake in the...
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Deaf people to train as mental health nurses
Deaf people will be able to train as qualified mental health nurses at Salford University from September. Six places on a three-year course will be fully funded by the Department of Health and...
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Students sue LGU for 'inadequate teaching'
London Guildhall University is facing damages claims for up to Pounds 500,000 from four students who were faced with an A-level question in a degree exam. The students, who studied at South Thames...
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Germans object to 'human cloning' patent
Edinburgh University says research that could benefit Parkinson's disease sufferers will continue unaffected, despite a European row over its patent application. The German government was this week...
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Colleges fail to justify millions in funding
College funding chiefs are struggling to give away millions of pounds for improving standards, because unaccountable colleges are failing to show they will put the funds to good use. Chief inspector...