Unions on warpath over reward for 'star' teachers
Union attacks on singling out "star" teachers and departments for financial reward rather than raising salaries across the board have drawn a muted response from the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council...
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Ombudsman set up but late and only voluntary
An ombudsman for universities will be ready to take student complaints from next January - four months later than the government promised in its white paper and three years after ministers called for...
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£250,000 fillip for equal ops
Equal opportunities and fairness for all staff will be boosted by a £250,000 research programme by the funding councils, write Alison Goddard and Olga Wojtas. The programme aims to "lead to...
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Stirling eksampals
Good to see Middlesex University is upholding the highest standards of spellink, grammer and sintacks. Its journalism and communications studies student handbook, a copy of which was sent to The...
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Edinburgh spearheads campaign to send books to Iraq
Edinburgh University has launched a campaign to collect books for Iraq's universities. Yasir Suleiman of Edinburgh's Institute for the Study of the Arab World and Islam initiated the campaign. He...
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Findings: Sea walls need not be concrete
Hideous concrete structures may not be needed to protect beautiful coastlines from vanishing into the sea, according to research from the University of Sheffield, writes Martin Ince. The university's...
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Findings: Wrong bra size fuels surgery
Some women could be undergoing unnecessary breast-reduction surgery because they wear the wrong size bra, according to UK researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. Adam Greenbaum, specialist registrar in...
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A dilemma in the way of science
THES writers report on changes to legislation on stem-cell research as nations struggle with their consciences. The UK was the first country in the world to pass laws to permit researchers to use...
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In the news: Roger Kline
If there is one man best placed to deal with the potentially explosive negotiations (news, page 4) over the implementation of new pay structures for universities being finalised this week, it is...
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Today's news
Emmanuel flexes minds and muscles Emmanuel has been rated the best college for academic performance at Cambridge University. The college leads the Tompkins table of exam results for the first time...
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Get real, top-up fees are the only option we have
MP Kerry Pollard had opposed top-up fees. Now he is convinced they are necessary. He explains what changed his mind When top-up fees for universities were first suggested, I vigorously opposed them....
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Harry Kroto
Nanoscience is just a new term for vast swaths of modern science, and whatever threat is posed today is in no way novel. Oh no, here we go again. The self-appointed saviours of the world, who scan...
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Don's diary: An arctic voyage to study hot current events
Monday Meet scientists, artists and film-makers who will share this trip to highlight the effects of ocean currents on us and our climate. We will sail on a 100-year-old schooner around Spitsbergen,...
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Party prizes
The Reverend Ian Paisley's firebrand Democratic Unionist Party lost no time in denouncing a £300 bursary at Queen's University, Belfast, in the name of murdered nationalist solicitor Pat Finucane as...
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Legal eagle
And another legal success story: Eddie "the eagle" Edwards, formerly Britain's first and only Olympic ski jumper, has graduated in law from De Montfort University. Famous for coming last with some...