The Open University - Fostering knowledge
Foster carers are being helped to study degree-level programmes under a new scheme. The partnership between the Fostering Network and The Open University will see the provision of a range of courses...
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University of Leeds - Rock music
Nearly £200,000 has been awarded by Natural England, an independent public body designed to protect and improve England's natural environment, to the University of Leeds for a project to introduce...
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University of Sheffield - Windy city
A centre to improve wind power technology has opened at the University of Sheffield. The Sheffield-Siemens Wind Power Research Centre (SWP) will focus on developing the most reliable and efficient...
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Nottingham Trent University - Looks safe on paper
The use of origami - the ancient art of paper folding - to improve health and safety in the handling of hazardous chemicals has been pioneered by a scientist at Nottingham Trent University. Laura...
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Sour Big Apple
Louisiana is the happiest state in America and New York is the unhappiest, University of Warwick research has found. The study by Andrew Oswald, professor of economics, and Stephen Wu, associate...
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Overseas briefing
United StatesPlans for tuition tax droppedPlans to charge students in Pittsburgh a tuition tax to fund pensions for retired city employees have been dropped after universities stepped in.Mayor Luke...
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Bologna not to the taste of Austrians and Germans
Students protest against the 'marketisation' of higher education. John Morgan reportsA wave of student protests across Austria and Germany is voicing opposition to tuition fees and "English-American...
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Grant Winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe ESRC's Professorial Fellowship scheme is funding five of the UK's top social scientists to allow them to develop their research agendas.Award winner: M....
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In the vanguard
Glamorgan's incoming vice-chancellor Julie Lydon has never let her gender get in the way of career advancement
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Appointments
A professor of education has been appointed the next vice-chancellor of Keele University. Nick Foskett, currently dean of the faculty of law, arts and social sciences at the University of Southampton...
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Fertile territory
Reproductive technologies offer older women more choice, but who gains the most benefit, asks Rachel Bowlby
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On balance, it's time for parity - no matter how it may move things
Financial discrimination against part-time students must end even if we can't say how it will affect gender imbalance, argues Tom Schuller
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Jargon generator offers a reality check on language
Sentence creation toy is 'warning' against obscurantist academic speak. John Morgan writes
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Open-access campaigner told to back off by US blog
A fervent campaigner for open-access journal publishing has been asked to stop posting comments on a new open-access blog by both supporters and opponents of his cause.Stevan Harnad, professor of...
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Staff promised bright new year as London Met aims to move on quickly
Governors agree to resign after Hefce threatens to withdraw funding. Rebecca Attwood writes