Boost for business
Aston University is to launch a pilot scheme to encourage regional businesses to make use of academics to improve innovation in industry. The Index scheme will award 80 small businesses in the West...
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Union disabled guide
The University and College Union will next week launch a new guide on the rights of disabled staff working in higher education under amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act, which came into...
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Access: must do better
Performance reviews highlight struggle to hit Government's widening participation target, writes Tony Tysome. The Government wants universities to step up efforts to attract more students from...
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Entrance exams discourage less well-off
Concern has emerged that entrance exams designed to help prestigious universities choose between thousands of A-level candidates with identical grades may be deterring students from disadvantaged...
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Rough justice
Rough justice: Some 20 students from Southampton University's Star (Student Action for Refugees) organisation spent a week living on the street with no access to money in an effort to highlight the...
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Young researchers face RAE exclusion
Efforts to reward early-career staff in the research assessment exercise may be failing, reports Anthea Lipsett Young and less experienced researchers face having their careers blighted before they...
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Charter launched to halt 'exploitation'
Campaign groups are trying to stop the exploitation of the 15,000 postgraduates who teach in universities, who they claim are being used as cheap labour. The University and College Union, the...
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Teach or lose cash proposal
Academics should receive research funding only if they agree to teach their discoveries to undergraduates, it was suggested this week, writes Jessica Shepherd. Paul Ramsden, the chief executive of...
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New group against tests
Academics who oppose animal research at Oxford University have launched the Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford, a group to campaign against vivisection. The group was set up to oppose animal...
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Focus on animal ethics
More than 100 academics from ten countries are to advise the new Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, launched online this week to put animals on the intellectual agenda. The centre is the world's first...
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Maths counts in Wales
Four Welsh institutions have joined forces to develop a new £5 million Wales Institute for Mathematical and Computational Sciences. The venture, backed by funding from the Higher Education Funding...
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'I felt very isolated,' says stunned critic
An increasing number of researchers face censure over studies critical of Labour policy, raising fears about freedom, reports Jessica Shepherd. No one with "the slightest common sense" could possibly...
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Life's rosy for political scientists despite pay and stress worries
Despite persistent concerns about increased workloads, stress and pay, a new survey shows that political scientists are becoming happier with their lot - marginally. Three years ago, almost two...
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Students help quash robbery conviction
Staff and students at Northumbria University's Law School turned theory into practice by helping to secure a £170,000 compensation payout for a man who was wrongly convicted of robbery in 1991. Kevin...
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'They do not always lie - they just glaze over the truth'
Kenyan student Evita Situma was sad to discover that Sheffield was not the beautiful, friendly city laden with fantastic employment opportunities that agents had led her to believe. When she arrived...