AUTS: do not apply English blueprint
The Scottish Executive has been urged to reject any moves to follow the English white paper proposals for 6* departments and more selective research funding or many universities will be "fatally...
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Wales vows to hold back on top-up fees
Welsh universities will charge no top-up fees until at least April 2007, education minister Jane Davidson has said. She told delegates at the National Union of Students Wales spring conference in...
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Foundation degrees get the thumbs down
Two-year foundation degrees have been ruled out in Scotland, with universities pressed by the Scottish Executive to offer accelerated learning through better links with further education colleges,...
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Finding: Ageism affects cancer survival
Ageism could be affecting the survival rate of lung cancer patients in Britain, which is well below the European average, according to researchers from London, writes Natasha Gilbert. In a study...
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Next week
The front line of medicine Training medics who will tend troops in Iraq. Plus: Key issues for next week's European Universities Association conference in Bristol A surreal sale Furore over the...
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Student survey plans fall apart
The government looks set to abandon the first of its flagship student satisfaction surveys later this year amid fears that university and academic reputations will be damaged by distorted polls....
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Stargazer arrested in operatic double act
A British astronomer arrested for painting an anti-war slogan on the world-famous sails of the Sydney Opera House in Australia faces deportation. Will Saunders was arrested on Tuesday together with...
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In the news: Suresh Deman
Suresh Deman's name strikes fear into the hearts of university managers across the land. He is a UK-based, India-born finance lecturer with US citizenship, and he has about 40 separate race - and...
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Appointments
* Keith Peters , regius professor of physic and head of the University of Cambridge's School of Clinical Medicine, has been elected president of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He succeeds Peter...
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Hefce may lose health cash grip
Medical schools are fighting plans to transfer their funding to the Department of Health from the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England, The THES learnt this week. Health secretary Alan...
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Crunch time for Roberts plan to overhaul research ratings
A "radical overhaul" of research assessment that will decide the fate of £1 billion of public funding will be placed before the funding councils next week. It consists of series of recommendations...
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Clinical science hit by huge cuts
Top-rated medical research in England will face cuts in the coming year despite reassurance that funding will be restored to departments rated 5 as well as 5*, writes Alison Goddard. Clinical...
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Women take on the Pole
Researchers at Cambridge University are conducting a sociological study of the first feminist ski expedition across Antarctica to the South Pole. The study will track a team of women aged between 50...
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RDAs 'too immature' to foster innovation
English regional development agencies do not have the experience needed to foster innovation, senior politicians heard this week. The higher education white paper proposed that RDAs be given a...
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Manchester forms nuclear bond
British Nuclear Fuels Limited is aiming to re-energise interest in nuclear science with a £2 million university research alliance. BNFL has signed a contract for a research partnership with the...