Wolverhampton buys mass spectrometer
Wolverhampton University's School of Health Sciences will buy and maintain a mass spectrometer with an Pounds 83,533 grant it has received from the Wellcome Trust. The machine can determine the...
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Crash analysis is success for scheme
A teaching company scheme that has been developing leading software for analysing the results from car crashes has been nominated for an award for innovation. The project, run jointly by the...
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Teaching research awards announced
The nine inter-university teams to win Pounds 7.5 million for research projects in the second phase of a Pounds 12.5 million programme to improve teaching and learning were announced today. They...
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Adult education pioneer steps down
Bill Conboy, who has overseen the resurrection of Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college, retired yesterday saying there was no longer any question of whether Newbattle...
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Lab water works going swimmingly well
Swimmers wishing to improve their performance need to get out of the water and into the laboratory, says a mechanical engineer at Staffordshire University. Laura Plant has devised a revolutionary...
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Cubie committee member Eleanor Currie
In The THES of August 25 we wrongly implied that Cubie committee member Eleanor Currie was speaking on behalf of the committee in proposing an individual savings account for learning. Mrs Currie,...
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THES on the web
Get inside the British Library with The THES and search 20,000 journals and 70,000 conference reports online. THES subscribers now have free use of the BL's Inside service, which normally costs...
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Academics face increasing divisions and isolation
Are academics in the 21st century part of a unified profession? Not according to a group of researchers from four universities who will warn an audience in Cardiff later this month that the climate...
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Scots to see high levels of appeals
There is continuing uncertainty over the numbers of young Scots gaining university places as schools predict a massive rise in examination result appeals. Although the Scottish Qualifications...
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Smaller firms lack HE interest
Post-1992 universities face an uphill struggle to build links with small and medium-sized firms, according to a new report. The report, published by the Coalition of Modern Universities, reveals the...
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Student numbers falling
People are turning away from full-time study but the growth in part-time provision may not fully compensate for the shift, according to figures released this week. The number of applicants for full-...
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Change in law could be the only way forward for UHI
The resignation of chief executive Brian Duffield last week from the troubled University of the Highlands and Islands project follows months of turmoil. Board chairman Sir Fraser Morrison accepted...
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Poor fail to fill access places
Middle-class young people with a family tradition of university education have been taking places on government summer schools designed to widen access to higher education for deprived groups. The...
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Brighton floats a curious project
Brighton University launched its latest research project last month, quite literally, as The Skylark - the last wooden fishing boat to be built locally - took to the waves for the first time in 30...
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Chiefs to end RAE's nursing anomaly
Funding chiefs are moving to end an anomaly that could otherwise spell the end of university research into nursing. All university staff - including those funded by the National Health Service - are...