Data disputes delay indicators
Disputes over data quality are delaying the publication of the latest performance indicators that show the social class of students at each university. More than 20 institutions disputed the figures...
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Foreigners pick up teaching tab
Overseas student fees are subsidising the teaching of British and European Union undergraduates to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year, according to confidential new figures. The figures...
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Wellcome funds free genome software
The Wellcome Trust will spend Pounds 8 million over five years to make freely available to researchers a computer program to analyse the human genome. The program, called Ensembl, locates active...
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Most of Dera to be sold to private sector
About 75 per cent of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency is to be sold as a private sector company in the next year, creating two new organisations. The Ministry of Defence chemical and...
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Degree could be new entree to social work
(Photograph) - A three-year degree could replace the diploma in social work as the recognised qualification for social workers, a government consultation document is expected to propose next month....
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Restructuring put jobs at risk
Several hundred jobs are at risk across more than a dozen new universities. At least 14 universities are planning cuts, with up to 140 academics facing redundancy at Northumbria and a further 104...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Finish my last administrative commitments before leaving England for five weeks of airborne research. We are investigating the glaciers of the Canadian Arctic and how the ice caps are...
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Rangoon
Classes for all students at Burma's 16 universities resumed this week for the first time since the military junta suspended them in 1996.
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Cotonou
A protest by students from the National University of Benin over a 60 per cent hike in the price of petroleum products was joined by taxi drivers and market women. Before they could get to the...
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Climate forecasters gain satellite sites
The Natural Environment Research Council is investing Pounds 5 million over five years in two British satellite centres to allow scientists to forecast extremes of environmental change. The Centre...
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Lambeth youngsters trailing behind
Underachievement is "rife" among 16 to 19-year-olds in Lambeth. This is the conclusion of an Ofsted area inspection report published this week. Education minister Baroness Blackstone said the report...
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Education research centre gets Pounds 2m fund
The government is to fund a Centre for Evidence Informed Policy and Practice, based at the Institute of Education, London. Ann Oakley, director of the institute's Social Science Research Unit, will...
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Jodrell observatory safe, says Sainsbury
The future of Jodrell Bank, the radio astronomy observatory, is secure, according to science minister Lord Sainsbury. He insisted that there were no plans to close it as part of cost-cutting measures...
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Edinburgh prepares for autumn's final crop
Edinburgh University is set to drop its undergraduate courses in agriculture after the autumn intake. The move will leave Aberdeen University as the only Scottish east coast institution offering...
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For better results, have faith in Christ's
Christ's College, Cambridge, has produced the best exam results of all Cambridge University colleges over the past two decades, according to a study by Peter Tompkins, who compiles the annual...