Action on redundancy
Unison members at Nottingham Trent University are being balloted on industrial action over a new redundancy policy. The public service union claims the new policy will have a detrimental effect on a...
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Durham don sent on leave
A senior professor at Durham University has been suspended and will now face disciplinary action after an investigation into allegations of plagiarism, writes Tariq Tahir. As The Times Higher...
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UK opens research bureau in Beijing
The UK's seven research councils this week opened a bureau in China, signalling a growing desire to collaborate with the emerging economy, writes Zoë Corbyn. The Beijing office, the councils' first...
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'What a waste': 2008's rejects vent dismay
Online, those academics left out of the research assessment tell of pain, politics and bias, writes Zoë Corbyn. Ben Anderson was excluded from the research assessment exercise because neither his...
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Axe hangs over 5-rated team
Researchers at Bournemouth University's prestigious National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) are angry at plans by the university to enter them into the research assessment exercise and then axe...
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Paid to be on RAE stand-by
An American professor has revealed that a UK university has been paying him around £900 a month for the past six months simply so it could have the option of including his research in the 2008...
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Blue-sky thinking that led to an astronomical ambition
Profile: Lisa Jardine-Wright astrophysicist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lisa Jardine-Wright is on a mission: to change the image of physics, writes Rebecca Attwood. With the number of...
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Gates cash for Durham
Three Durham University researchers will share in a grant of almost £10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study malaria. Gerry Killeen, Ulrike Fillinger and Steve Lindsay from the...
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Cardiff's green honour
Researchers at Cardiff University have won the Envirowise Green Chemistry Award. The team, led by physical chemistry professor Graham Hutchings, received the honour for research into more sustainable...
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Make it a touch better
With some ailments, you really can rub it better, according to Cumbria University research. An ongoing study of 300 clients for the Centre for Complementary Care in Muncaster, Cumbria, shows that...
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Wellcome PhD fillip
The Wellcome Trust has announced a cash injection of £137 million over nine years for postgraduate biomedical research training. The money will be used to extend the trust's four-year PhDs for...
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Eastwood favours light touch over discipline
Responsiveness and flexibility are key to institutions' success, Hefce chief executive tells Melanie Newman. Universities will not be allowed to fail in future but some may have to shrink in size,...
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Tribunal sets aside MMU racism decision
An employment tribunal that found that Manchester Metropolitan University had racially discriminated against a lecturer - even though he had not attended the hearing - has had its findings set aside...
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NHS to slash time for checks
University researchers conducting research across different National Health Service organisations should see red tape cut substantially after it was announced that a single new system for dealing...
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Young hit the hardest by Japanese funding shift
Japan's Government wants higher education to be more commercially focused, but pursuit of that goal is putting a strain on academics and darkening career prospects for young researchers. Nobuko Hara...