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More cash to widen access for students Universities are to receive a five-fold increase in the cash they are given to widen participation by recruiting more students from a broader range of social...
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Bristol cries 'no-win' over access
Funding chiefs today cut Bristol University's teaching grant for failing to recruit enough students from poorer backgrounds, days after private-school heads agreed to boycott the university for...
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Probe into partnership cash split
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England has launched a review of partnership agreements between universities and further education colleges. A team of reviewers from three universities, two...
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Bath gets nod for double vision
The University of Bath is set to double its size in the biggest shake-up since it received its royal charter in 1966. Vice-chancellor Glynis Breakwell has received the go-ahead from higher education...
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Criminals to steal research limelight
A series of studies in which criminals are filmed re-enacting their offences and are then interviewed about them has been unveiled by one of the UK's leading crime specialists. Martin Gill, professor...
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Languages study hurt by A levels
Bad experience at A level is a key reason why students are shunning language degrees, according to an Anglo-German Foundation report published this week. Sixth-formers are put off by the jump in...
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Scots win £150,000 to wage war on midges
Aberdeen University scientists are waging war on that scourge of the Scottish summer - the common midge - with a £150,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise's proof of concept fund to commercialise...
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Next week
News Hefce unveils its strategy Darwin and the barnacle An eight-year love affair that inspired one of science's most far-reaching theories Virtual vision Tony Smith, president of Magdalen College,...
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Whistleblowers: Aston faces £100,000 High Court claim
Aston University faces a High Court claim for more than £100,000 in damages next week from a former PhD student who hopes to set a legal precedent and consign the quasi-judicial visitor system to...
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Ruskin left in lurch as site deal collapses
Ruskin College - the workers' university - faced a difficult future this week after a crucial property deal fell through. Principal Jim Durcan had drawn up plans to move the 100-year-old Oxford...
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Par for the race course
Oxford and Cambridge universities are stepping up their outreach campaigns to attract more non-traditional students. The universities are on tour, hoping to attract sixth formers to events designed...
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Don's diary: Minefield Memoirs
March 2002 Radio 4 announces that I am going to Afghanistan as an artist commissioned by the Imperial War Museum. I am still struggling to find a way into the country, let alone plan an itinerary. It...
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Why I believe science administrators do more harm than good
How do you promote innovative science and start a scientific revolution? Historians and philosophers have long puzzled over this, as have science administrators hoping to foster breakthroughs through...
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Sex and the Hildabeast
Women-only colleges have served their purpose; it's time for St Hilda's to move on, says Hilda Brown. As a non-Oxford graduate, my experience of Oxford University spans 40 years of working with an...
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Super-search tool
Academics backed by the Joint Information Systems Committee are working on a super-search engine to make the internet more useful for scholars. Other Jisc-backed projects were singled out for praise...