Local centres key to wealth
Innovation centres based in world-class universities and college-based technology institutes were unveiled this week as part of the government's white paper on enterprise, skills and innovation. Both...
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Strike threat greets Southampton scheme to dump courses
Lecturers are ready to strike at Southampton Institute in protest at plans to scrap key humanities courses and cut at least 22 academic posts following shortfalls in student recruitment. Despite the...
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Sheffield Business School cuts programmes
Sheffield Business School is to shut non-profitable programmes in an effort to get out of the red. This could affect up to 70 members of staff. The postgraduate school at Sheffield Hallam University...
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QAA withdraws licence from validating agency
The Quality Assurance Agency has withdrawn accreditation from one of its Authorised Validating Agencies after uncovering serious failings with its stewardship of the quality and standards of access...
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British Library defends itself against ad charge
The British Library has denied that a link to its sponsors on its newly launched online public catalogue is an advertisement. The link to Amazon.co.uk came under fire on a librarians' mailing list....
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Screening study aims to tackle chlamydia
A study aimed at tackling the world's commonest bacterial sexually-transmitted infection started this week. Researchers at the University of Birmingham began screening about 18,000 men and women aged...
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Wales bids to increase the number of medics
The Welsh Assembly's health minister, Jane Hutt, has unveiled plans to establish a clinical school at Swansea organised jointly by Swansea University, the University of Wales College of Medicine and...
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Engineers and poets are endowment winners
The third round of awards by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts saw 34 projects share £1.9 million. University-based winners included Linda Long at Exeter, who is generating...
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Comedian is elected rector of Dundee
Comedian and broadcaster Fred MacAulay has been elected rector of Dundee University by a massive majority of students. Mr MacAulay, who will be inaugurated later this year, polled 681 votes. His...
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Worker plans to sue campus
Leeds Metropolitan University could become the first university to be sued under the Human Rights Act. Ros Johnstone, a cleaning supervisor who was video-recorded by hidden cameras during her lunch...
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Scot cuts may lead to mass exodus
A modern languages expert has warned of a potential exodus of Scottish students to English universities if the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council goes ahead with "cataclysmic" teaching funding...
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Scientists struggle to shake off 'secretive'tag
Almost a third of scientists in teams that hold licences for animal research said they were concerned that talking publicly would set them up as targets for animal rights extremists. The finding is...
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Surveying body in accreditation row
The University of Central England is to challenge the inclusion of anyone involved in the decision to withdraw surveying course accreditation in associated research assessment panels. Peter Knight,...
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Senate hears safety worries
Cambridge University has fallen foul of health and safety watchdogs at least seven times since it admitted losing a package of radioactive material in 1999, its senate heard this week. The university...
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Body parts hysteria prompts reforms
The government has commissioned an inquiry into the management of senior staff working in universities and the National Health Service following the Alder Hey body parts scandal. The inquiry will be...