Robotic mining tested in australia
Mining giant Rio Tinto has agreed to fund one of the world's largest civilian robotics centres. The Centre for Mine Automation at the University of Sydney, which will have £2 million funding a year,...
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Gene variation points to heart disease
A common genetic variation is linked to a substantial increase in the risk of heart attacks, US researchers have found. The team at Emory University's School of Medicine, Duke University and the...
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Mental health research in Oz
A new Australian research centre for mental health and wellbeing has been launched. The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing at Melbourne...
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Restless legs could be relegated to past
Relief may be at hand, thanks to German researchers, for millions of people kept awake by twitching legs. Teams at the Max Plank Institute of Psychiatry and Munich's Technical University and National...
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Zeiss sponsors photonics chair
Leading optical firm Carl Zeiss has sponsored a professorship at a German university. A junior professorship in advanced computational photonics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Friedrich...
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Better security urged in US
FBI agents are advising universities on keeping data secure against terrorism. The regional head of the US chief domestic law enforcement agency, the FBI, was personally at the head of the line of...
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National pay bargaining: an uncertain future
Pay is the biggest single cost for a university. But despite its overwhelming importance for the finances of any institution, most have been happy for decades to outsource the negotiations that...
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The stakes are high, the proposals must be firm
Ron Dearing outlines the factors the Government should consider in its promised funding review in 2009. The Review of Higher Education I led ten years ago was prompted by the compelling need to...
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'At risk' of not delivering for our students
Hefce must publish current data on institutions' financial health, insists Geoffrey Alderman. Earlier this month, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the media obtained access to...
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Knocked for socks
Former Prime Minister John Major's reputation for greyness was ruined during his recent appearance at Queen Mary, University of London, to talk about his new book on cricket. Sir John was wearing a...
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Turn up and make hay
Ulster University has found a cunning recruitment strategy for its new diploma course on Belfast's cultural and social history. It highlights Ulster poet W. R. Rodgers' quip that "every Belfastman...
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No mod cons
UK universities need not fear that the supply of Chinese students will dry up any time soon, following the latest edict from China's Ministry of Education. It has forbidden students in China from...
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Keeping an eye on the purse
Plymouth University's press release on the appointment of new vice-chancellor Wendy Purcell notes that as well as being an enthusiastic collector of modern art, she "relaxes through retail therapy...
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Individual battles will sink our ship
The Dearing response, especially over funding and quality, set institutions against each other to the sector's cost, says David Watson. In 1985 Keith Joseph, the Conservative Secretary of State for...
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The big picture's past, present and future
History needs Grand Narratives and long-term perspectives to help us understand our lives, says Penelope Corfield. Historians haven't yet lost the plot but they have lost the big picture. We are...