Paulin avoids charge
The Board of Deputies of British Jews will not prosecute poet and Oxford academic Tom Paulin for inciting racial hatred in alleged remarks he made about Jewish settlers to an Egyptian newspaper,...
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Whistleblowers: German MBA deflated
The University of Wales has ordered a thorough check of all publicity material produced by a private partner college in Germany, after investigations found that the partner had been making confusing...
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Analysis: Widening the gateway to higher plane
Colleges are being pushed to form links with higher education but is it an initiative too far for an already stretched sector, asks Tony Tysome City and Islington College acting principal Frank...
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AUT may boycott new RAE
Almost 50,000 lecturers may boycott any future research assessment exercise if funding chiefs fail to spell out in advance how the money will be allocated. After the outcry from lecturers, vice-...
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Ethical dilemma could delay FP6
Researchers have been told to carry on putting together proposals for the European Union's Sixth Research Framework Programme despite a row over ethics that is threatening to delay the programme....
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Research councils to present a united front
The seven research councils will present themselves as one from now on, although there is no likelihood of merger, according to John Taylor, the research councils' director-general, writes Caroline...
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Whistleblowers: Cambridge lecturer seeks judicial review
Cambridge University is back in the High Court next week, as campaigning history lecturer Gill Evans seeks a judicial review of the university's procedures for promoting academic staff. Dr Evans...
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Toronto settles in academic freedom battle
The University of Toronto has settled a lawsuit with a British drugs researcher who alleged that an employment offer was revoked because he asserted a link between antidepressants and suicide....
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Bristol answers tabloid attacks
Bristol University has defended one of its professors against tabloid accusations of taking organs from deceased babies without their families' consent. The university said the stories could damage...
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Disabled lose fight to study medicine
The Court of Appeal has thrown out a landmark case on the rights of disabled people to study and practise medicine. Paraplegic Heidi Cox had won the right to sue the General Medical Council for...
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Ethics of Biobank challenged by group
The decision to fund the UK Biobank - the world's largest study of the interaction of genes, environment and health - has been dismissed as premature by a research pressure group. The Wellcome Trust...
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Osaka
Japan's Osaka University is to form an information exchange alliance with 16 Japanese companies, including Sony and Matsu****a, for future joint developments in bio-IT.
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Beijing
Tsinghua University has recruited 28 foreign academics as visiting professors from institutions that include Harvard University.
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Washington DC
Nearly half of US university students expect to receive no job offers while 20 per cent anticipate only one, according to a survey by job-search company Monster.com.
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Bichard: 'time to worship creativity'
The government worships the "twin towers of science and technology" and is neglecting the creative arts in the economy of the future, according to a former Whitehall education official. Michael...