Stellar horn plays the music of stars
The music of the spheres is being heard for the first time thanks to a unique collaboration between an astronomer and a composer. Every note in the five-minute composition is "played" by an...
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EU influx to push for places in UK
School-leavers could find it harder to get into UK universities because of competition from thousands of candidates from the new European Union member states, according to an independent think-tank....
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Big cuts punish poor student enrolments
Stability and consolidation were the watchwords this week as the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England set out how much money it will distribute to universities for teaching and research in...
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Animal zealots target Oxford
Animal rights activists are to target Oxford University, raising fresh fears that academics will become the primary focus of extremists. Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge, a coalition of animal...
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Sober standing committee avoids falling down fate
Ministers this week conceded that MPs needed extra time to scrutinise the HE bill. Paul Hill witnessed the latest Commons deliberations. The Tories smelt a rat, Labour smelt tripe and one backbencher...
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Threat to UK's research millions from overseas
Fears are growing that at least one major UK-based company is poised to pull the plug on the millions it pours into university research, threatening chancellor Gordon Brown's vision for a modern hi-...
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Taking the fiction out of science's portrayal
Far from dumbing down, sci-fi studies boldly goes into the dark space that lies between science and society, say Rosi Thornton and Mark Brake. Whenever the latest derisory list of "dumbing down"...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: Seth Kunin Age: 42 Job: Director of research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences and acting head of School...
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Can we stick together and regain the lost plot?
The free-market fundamentalism unleashed on universities must be reversed, writes Bob Brecher. The imposition of differential tuition fees - the most devastating attack on higher education in decades...
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Jobwatch: seeking a £70k deputy
From a well-rewarded chair in e-science to a teacher trainer based in the Lakes, Pat Leon reviews what's on the science job market menu, and also finds culinary perks on offer for Oxford research...
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Who got that job?
Lindsay MacDonald, 53 Principal Lecturer/Research Director Job advertised in The Times Higher , May 30, 2003 A research squeeze at Derby University was behind Lindsay MacDonald's decision to try the...
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Fears for £200m bid to aid research
Plans to commercialise more university research by channelling up to £200 million through the English regions could fail because regional bodies lack the capacity to handle the job, experts have...
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Orwell's Oxford paper accused of political bias
The Oxford University student newspaper that launched the careers of George Orwell and Graham Greene is fighting to defend its reputation amid allegations of "errors, misjudgements and misdemeanours...
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Relaunch as e-flagship flounders in stormy seas
Funding chiefs have ordered a restructuring of the UK's flagship online university venture because of poor student recruitment and cash problems. The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England is...
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Cut-price policy bites
Students are being short-changed because the government is trying to meet its higher education expansion target "on the cheap", college heads and lecturers' leaders claimed this week. The Association...