Professor gives colorado £10m
A biochemistry professor in the US has given £10 million to his university for a new biotechnology facility. Marvin Caruthers, who co-founded the biotechnology company Amgen, donated the money...
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Students set up for classes on youtube
Students at a US college have begun a course on the online video site YouTube. The classes, assignments and even reading on the course at Pitzer College, in California, will be filmed for the site as...
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Discovery may help endangered species
Japanese scientists have enabled sterile salmon to give birth to trout. The team from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency found that...
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Institutions hit by katrina get cash
The US Government has given £15 million to universities hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The maximum award for any institution was £3 million, and 22 higher education institutions were funded. Many...
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Canadians push for a higher profile
Canadian universities are planning a bigger role for themselves on the international stage and want their Government to bankroll their projects. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada...
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Fiji establishes regulatory body
Fiji is to get a new body to regulate higher education. The Cabinet has approved the Higher Education Advisory Commission to advise the Minister for Education and manage accreditation and approval...
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Sweet perfume or stinky smell?
If you have wondered why male urine sometimes smells like vanilla, then US scientists have an explanation. The team at Rockefeller and Duke universities have found a gene that can make male urine...
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It's about time, but it's about feedback as well
Student surveys show that the sector must explain why UK degrees are good value, says Deian Hopkin How do we really know whether our students are satisfied? How do they judge value for money? Two...
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'What strikes me as objectionable about the RAE is the atmosphere of fear and trembling that surrounds it'
After writing in this column about the importance of taking the impact of childbirth and childcare into account when assessing research output for the forthcoming research assessment exercise, I was...
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Let's take the guesswork out of reading
A research project aims to compile a truly reliable journals ranking list. Linda Bennett explains Which journal articles should academic researchers and university students read? What articles do...
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Purple passages praise Durham
Old rockers never die, but they certainly do appear to mellow out. Jon Lord, the former Deep Purple keyboard player, has swapped the hell-raising world of trashed hotel rooms for the cerebral...
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Coastal sound waves
Continuing the musical themeE Hull University's Centre for Environmental Sciences now has a composer in residence. Craig Vear says he will use the coastline as his source of creativity when he takes...
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Yes... no ... yes it is new money
There was as much confusion as there was excitement over Gordon Brown's announcement this week of a £15 billion spend on medical research over the next ten years. In his conference speech, he was "...
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A course to take us into the future
The integrated sciences degree will stimulate students and meet employers' new interdisciplinary demands, says Jim Al-Khalili When deliveries of the bread for our morning toast are co-ordinated via...
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From burning books to exterminating races
It is time, says Alan Kramer, to revisit the role of cultural destruction in the first great conflict of 20th-century Europe Late in the evening of August 25, 1914, German troops broke into the...