Astronomers battle it out for giant-eye glory
The race to build the largest telescope in the world has galvanised astronomers on both sides of the Atlantic, writes Steve Farrar. Rival European teams have joined forces in a unified bid to create...
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Scots fraud inquiry
Lothian and Borders police have launched an embezzlement inquiry following the disappearance of £20,000 from Jewel and Esk Valley College in Edinburgh. The police are believed to want to interview a...
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Copus to be wound up
The Committee on the Public Understanding of Science is to be wound up after a stormy final year. Set up in 1986, Copus was a joint venture by the Royal Society, the Royal Institution and the British...
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Brits win share of prize
British research groups have shared in the European Union's e1 million (£642,000) Descartes prize, which is designed to reward pan-EU science. One winner includes scientists from Dundee and Edinburgh...
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Downing: no to top-ups
Downing College, Cambridge has made a public statement opposing the introduction of top-up fees. It is the second Cambridge University college to speak out against them. The college said: "Such fees...
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Cash victory for NI
Northern Ireland's two universities have succeeded in their campaign for research funding equal to other parts of the UK. The Department of Finance and Personnel has announced an extra £10 million a...
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Exam probe reveals risk
An independent inquiry into this year's Scottish examination results debacle has warned of "potential risk" in the way results are sent from the Scottish Qualifications Authority to the Universities...
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Reform has failed to erase funding gap between old and new
Higher education reforms over the past decade have had little impact on funding inequalities between institutions or on the structure of the sector, an independent study has concluded. Changing the...
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Telescope 'created by English'
New evidence has emerged to support suggestions that the first telescope was built by an Englishman, writes Steve Farrar. An overlooked manuscript provides the context for claims that Elizabethan...
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'Tighten biotech control'
The government must strengthen its control over biotechnological research in UK universities to reduce the threat from biological weapons, according to MPs. In a report on the government's green...
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Access-driven Hodge eases way for mergers
The government plans to make it easier for universities to collaborate with each other, with further education colleges and with industry as part of a reinvigorated widening participation policy to...
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Whistleblowers: Sister of staff member awarded £11k bursary
Cardiff University Business School has awarded an £11,500 research bursary to the sister of one of its staff after she failed to win funding for her PhD through the school's nationally advertised...
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Cambridge rebels hold up rejig
Cambridge University's attempts to modernise have been set back by a series of rebellions by academics. The Regent House, Cambridge's ultimate executive authority of 3,000-plus scholars, gave the...
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Expert hands calm bra cup chaos
An expert in semi-classical acoustics and quantum chaos has found mathematical proof for a theorem that many women knew instinctively to be true, writes Caroline Davis. Matthew Wright of Southampton...
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CLA pounces on piracy outfit
Undercover officials have swooped on an unlicensed copyshop operating next to Nottingham University, seizing hundreds of copies of illegally produced material. The compliance arm of the Copyright...