Amendment secures academic freedom
Vice-chancellors and lecturers struck a blow for academic freedom by securing a key amendment to an export bill on Tuesday. The export control bill, designed to regulate the arms trade, sets out...
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London university merger goes ahead
London Guildhall University and the University of North London will merge next week to create London Metropolitan University. The university, one of the largest in the country, will have 28,000...
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York biological science funding doubled
York University doubled its research council funding for biological sciences last year, receiving almost £10 million. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's 2001-02 annual...
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The grid moves a step closer to completion
A key component of the grid, heralded as the successor to the internet, has been completed, UK scientists told a conference in Edinburgh this week. The data access and integration programme will...
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Institutional research debate launched
The Learning and Teaching Support Network has launched a debate on institutional research in memory of Mike Daniel, the late pro-rector of University College Northampton. It believes that measuring...
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£15m earmarked to boost vets' research
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs this week announced a £15 million injection to boost veterinary training and research in universities. The cash will be spent over three years...
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Human cloning is removed from patent
The European Patent Office had revised a patent granted to Edinburgh University and the biotech firm Stem Cell Services to remove the possibility that it could cover a method of cloning humans....
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Cardiff agrees to merger in principle
Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine have agreed in principle to merge, as suggested by the Welsh Assembly's strategy for higher education. Sir Graeme Davies, principal...
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Guidelines issued on electronic publishing
Electronic publishers should not be allowed to gather data on users without their knowledge or permission, according to the International Coalition of Library Consortia. The ICOLC has issued...
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'Fund nanotechnology to keep UK in vanguard'
A report this week called for more government funding to put the UK at the forefront of the nanotechnology industry. The report, by the Advisory Group on Nanotechnology Applications, says the UK has...
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Dushanbe
Higher education for women is expected to be a priority in Tajikistan's forthcoming budget. The budget will include measures to attract young women from the mountainous areas of the country to...
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Don's diary: tour d'emploi
Autumn 2000 The research proposal I submitted to a large programme on transport has failed in the second round. This is a blow to my plans for developing research directions on the culture of cycle...
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British Library staff to strike over pay
Staff at the British Library will go on strike next week in protest at a 4 per cent pay offer. The Public and Commercial Services union will lead its 979 British Library members out on strike on...
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Assembly of Beagle 2 Mars probe starts
Work has begun assembling the Beagle 2 Mars lander, which will hunt for life on the red planet. It is being constructed in a contamination-free room at the Open University and will be launched in...
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Call for genetics patent rules to be applied
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has called for patent offices worldwide to work to ensure rules are more rigorously applied in applications involving genetic sequences. A discussion paper, The...