Curl up and dye for sex appeal
It is a growing mystery that has baffled scientists and delighted barbers. But a new hypothesis to explain why human head hair keeps getting longer suggests the haircut itself may be responsible. The...
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Middlesex tops growth league
Middlesex University has topped a list of institutions that have expanded full-time undergraduate numbers, according to an analysis by The Times Higher . Universities that have previously struggled...
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Law admissions test cuts through school and gender bias
The first results from the national admissions test for law show that it does not discriminate against state-school pupils and that men and women do equally well. The Lnat was introduced by eight...
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Science pays its way
The Government can justify supporting expensive science subjects in universities because physics and chemistry graduates will earn more than other graduates over a lifetime and pay more back to the...
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Entrepreneur rounds up movers and shakers for £100m stem-cell plan
The man planning to inject £100 million of mostly private money into the UK's stem-cell research community believes treatments based on the research could be available in about two years. Sir...
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To whinge is human, to be a fellow is divine
Research fellows should try a stint at the coalface, reckons Tim Birkhead Judging from the correspondence that followed a recent Times Higher article about "grumpy old staff", several other readers...
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Demand for interpreters is healthy sign of the times
Graham Turner looks at how to sustain the rise in the number of deaf students Would you go to university if you couldn't hear a word of what the lecturers said? Research in the early 1990s showed...
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Image hell or makeover heaven?
Managers who feel the need to rebrand their institutions should ensure they have enough in their coffers - and then get expert advice, advises Harriet Swain You've had enough of your fuddy-duddy...
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Department audit
John Palfreyman, head of school, gives the lowdown on contemporary sciences at the University of Abertay, Dundee * Total number of academic staff: 41, including office staff, technicians, research...
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Teachers seek input on policy
The UK's top academic teachers launched a formal group this week that will give them an independent voice and help them to shape higher education policy. Academics awarded National Teaching...
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Deficits pose job threat to Imperial's 5* divisions
Staff in Imperial College London's top-rated neuroscience and medicine divisions have been warned that their jobs may be at risk, prompting fears that a good research assessment exercise result may...
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Who's got the cash?
An Oxford University spin-off has secured proof-of-concept funding from a US-based investor. Surface Therapeutics is celebrating first-round funding of £1.5 million - enough, it hopes, to prove that...
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US to bridge gap in Middle East
US scientists are coordinating a plan to create a research centre in the Arava Valley that sits half on Israeli territory and half on Jordanian territory. Mati Kochavi, an Israeli businessman who...
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Autonomy promised in Ukraine
Ukraine's "orange revolution" and the inauguration last week of President Viktor Yushchenko will mean a major shake-up for the country's higher education system.J Part of Mr Yushchenko campaign...
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Jobs cull set to hit South Africa
Hundreds of jobs will be shed in coming years as mergers between South African universities begin to bite, especially at departments that are duplicated across campuses. At the University of Fort...