US may curb lab access
Foreign students in the US could be barred from using some types of laboratory equipment or even setting foot in certain parts of research laboratories if two US government proposals aimed at...
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Focus on FP7 plan
The European Commission will continue to draw up detailed plans for a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) on research despite the failure of last month's European Union summit to agree on a budget,...
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Historians slate PM over 'debt to Raj' speech
Indian academics have attacked the Prime Minister for rewriting history by publicly acknowledging the "beneficial consequences" of the Raj. For 57 years, Indian history textbooks have portrayed the...
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Lecturer forced to leave Belarus
US academic Terry Boesch describes hearing the news that his Belarusian visa had been withdrawn after two years of teaching at the Belarus State University in Minsk as "like having to attend my own...
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Spain urged to root out abuse and favouritism in academe
An academic has called for an overhaul of the Spanish university system because its "obsolete structure" has fostered "a culture of harassment, inbreeding and corruption". Rosa Peñasco, professor of...
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V-cs hail low rate of attrition
Fewer than one in seven Australian university students drop out before completing their courses, according to a study by the Australian Council for Educational Research. The researchers followed...
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A wiki way to rate work and spread scholarship
Use the web and open-source ideals to evaluate, improve and publicise research, suggests Geoff Mulgan Over the next 12 months, the UK's academic community will need to rethink how it assesses itself...
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Gary Day
The inhumanity of suicide bombers should make us see that we need to start acknowledging the humanity of all people I was in a meeting about mentoring when the news broke. Four explosions in London....
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Whips win as Willis moves in
Despite all the raging about the removal of Ian Gibson, the outspoken Labour MP, from the chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee a fortnight ago, it appears that the...
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Draft in a celebrity extra
One of the biggest questions facing Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, is what should be the shape and content of the Government's TV campaign to explain tuition fees, grants and bursaries...
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An honest, if unexciting, Hero
Hero, the higher education and research website, issued a press release this week about how it could help the sector - with corrections helpfully marked in red. The statement initially proclaimed...
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Engage in academic congress
Not only did last weekend's Secrets of the Sexes on BBC One shed no scientific light on how people choose their dating partners, it also did nothing to improve the sex appeal of academia. The team...
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Mario de Caro: double scoops of ice-cream and inspiration
"Chocolate Sluggo is named after a fierce campus track coach; mango sorbet and khulfi were developed with an Indian scholar at Harvard" Toscanini's Ice Cream Cambridge, Massachusetts, US Albert...
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Why I... believe fears that campus Muslim groups foster terrorists are unfounded
I am a Muslim woman who has worked and studied in universities and colleges for the past 13 years. I have witnessed the extreme views held by a very small minority of Muslims who form some of the...
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Minor pain, major gain
After all the controversy, the shake-up at Swansea will pay substantial rewards, argues Richard Davies The "squeezed middle" is a phrase coined by Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher...