Scientists call for a little bit of glamour
Ally McBeal has inspired a new generation of sassy female lawyers, but we need to create equally glamorous characters to draw young women into science and engineering, television producers were told...
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Offa set for early fee plans
Universities look set to finalise plans for tuition fees and bursaries in 2006 by January - two months before the deadline. The Office for Fair Access revealed this week that a "great majority" of...
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High on class, low on content?
The number of firsts awarded continues to rise but more than half of academics in our poll think that students are receiving undeserved degrees, reports Phil Baty Julie Finch thinks her first-class...
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Watchdog shows its teeth and awards compensation
The student complaints watchdog has confounded critics who predicted its bark would be worse than its bite by ordering universities to pay compensation to students in all three of the appeals it has...
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Student loan firm bursary could cost sector £3m
The hidden cost of the Government's top-up fee reforms came to light this week as it emerged that universities may have to pay administration costs of £15 for every bursary they award - which could...
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Stepping down as science takes off
Being in charge of Britain's "big science" budget used to be a frustrating experience, with too many opportunities and too little cash. But Ian Halliday, the outgoing chief executive of the Particle...
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'We're overworked and underpaid,' PhDs tell research council
Young researchers challenged senior research council figures this week to explain how they were expected to survive job insecurity and insufficient funding, writes Anna Fazackerley. PhD and...
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Patten dismisses private control with call for more state gold
Chris Patten, chancellor of Oxford University, has spoken out against the institution going private, arguing that the Government must ramp up funding for its "enormous national assets". Speaking...
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Soldiers occupy campus
Northumbria University's latest student recruits are soldiers who have signed up as the result of a shake-up of the Ministry of Defence's education programme. Eleven trainee engineering officers from...
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Times Higher probe leads to 12th exclusion
Oxford Brookes University has excluded a 12th student following The Times Higher 's investigation into the use of fake qualifications to secure places across the UK higher education sector, writes...
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New laws to crush animal protests
Protecting British science from animal rights extremists will form a key part of the Government's final Parliamentary term before the widely anticipated spring general election. In the Queen's Speech...
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Scientist sentenced
A Siberian scientist who was acquitted last year on charges of espionage, fraud and selling space secrets to the Chinese has been sentenced to 14 years' hard labour after a retrial. Viktor Danilov,...
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Scots target stars
A raft of new measures to help Scotland attract and retain top scientists, engineers and technologists has been proposed in a report from the independent Scottish Science Advisory Committee. The...
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Thriving school faces the axe
Staff and students are battling to save Cambridge University's School of Architecture from closure, pointing to its popularity with students and a tripling of research income in three years, writes...