Millions lost on patent
SOUTHAMPTON University has lost out on hundreds of millions of pounds in royalties on a breakthrough optical fibre technology because of loose patenting and lack of commercial nous. The technology is...
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Students foot bill for growth
STUDENTS and not the government are funding the bulk of a Pounds 280 million cash boost for universities that still leaves institutions with an overall per capita cut. Claims by the government this...
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Union chiefs go halfway to cross-binary merger
UNION chiefs agreed this week to set up two new staff bodies, based separately in higher and further education and joined together in a federation. The agreement, made by representatives of the...
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Teaching hits top ten for ease of entry
TEACHING is one of the ten easiest degrees to enter in terms of A-level results, figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show. Only librarianship, mathematical and informatics...
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Psychology blow for would-be entrants
Prospective entrants to a psychology course at Heriot-Watt University have been told it is being suspended. The university has imposed the moratorium within a year of launching the course in applied...
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Individual Learning Accounts warning
THE government's plans for a national framework of Individual Learning Accounts will fail without major public investment in advice and guidance systems, warns a report by careers advice...
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TEC underwritten in the short term
MINISTERS have guaranteed funding for the United Kingdom's 78 training and enterprise councils for the next three years, but their funding could still be switched to the new regional development...
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Drama school governors reject staff appeals
Governors at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama have rejected appeals against dismissal from two staff. About 100 students occupied the college last month, and 20 visiting lecturers threatened...
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British Library identifies Pounds 8 million need
THE British Library's consultation document on ways to raise income says its current grant-in-aid of Pounds 80.45 million is Pounds 8 million less than it needs for its spending on acquisition and...
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European women of achievement
Christina Preston of London University's Institute of Education and Bozena Mannova of the Czech Technical University have won a European Women of Achievement award for their work with teachers and...
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Manchester scientists launch genetic firms
SCIENTISTS at Manchester University have formed two companies to exploit their expertise in analysing genetic data and promising research work aimed at fighting human and agricultural fungal...
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What the baroness foresaw
Physics is healthy and yet university departments are closing or merging. THES reporters investigate BARONESS Blackstone attracted a storm of protest last year when she suggested that the proportion...
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Small performers feel the student squeeze
Physics is healthy and yet university departments are closing or merging. THES reporters investigate UNDERGRADUATES The proportion of undergraduates choosing physics is falling and is now less than 1...
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Why study physics?
Physics is healthy and yet university departments are closing or merging. THES reporters investigate David Colling Researcher in the high-energy particle physics group at Imperial College, London. "...
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Scots anomaly stays
ENGLISH, Welsh and Northern Irish students entering Scottish universities this autumn will pay up to Pounds 1,000 more for their degree than classmates from Scotland and the Europe Union, it has been...