Denial of university status an 'injustice'
Controversy has marred the creation of the first new university in almost a decade, with ministers and quality chiefs accused of inconsistency and unfairness. Last week the Privy Council awarded the...
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Fire destroys PhD work
Glasgow University may have to seek research council extensions for up to ten botany postgraduates whose work is feared destroyed in a fire. But some research work and historic memorabilia has been...
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Whistleblowers: 'Oxford three' back one
Race harassment officer Dee Singh has resigned from Oxfordshire Race Equality Council, claiming that the "power and influence" of Oxford University has hampered his work on behalf of aggrieved Oxford...
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Analysis: Free to live and learn
Fauzia Ahmad is conducting research that challenges the stereotypes about Muslim women in the UK. Claire Sanders reports. Since September 11, Fauzia Ahmad has been very busy. As a project manager of...
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Spain to adopt Bologna model
Spanish rectors aim to reform the structure of university degrees to bring them in line with the Bologna declaration. In future, first degrees should take three to four years to complete and...
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Age catches up with Oz lecturer force
Australian universities face a staffing crisis over the next five to ten years as one in every eight academics reaches retiring age. Few young academics are being appointed to permanent positions....
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Campus guarded after five deaths
Uganda's largest public university, Makerere, is under 24-hour armed guard after the deaths by shooting of five students during the last academic year. Policemen, regular and special army units are...
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News in brief
Kuala Lumpur Malaysian public university courses will be rated by a quality assurance agency to be established "as soon as possible", education minister Musa Mohamad has announced. The quality rating...
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Czech students protest over broken funding promise
A row over higher education funding in the Czech Republic has triggered student protests in several universities. The protests continued even after the immediate cause of the students' grievance had...
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£2.4m bid to support small firms
The University of Bradford has launched a £2.4 million scheme to support university collaboration with small and medium-sized enterprises. The largest initiative in the scheme will promote innovation...
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Tall tales of Timbuktu
It is a byword for remoteness, but Timbuktu's fabled reputation in the West as an exotic city of great riches may have been a case of mistaken identity, archaeologists believe. An excavation of...
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Sandia's 'Holy Grail' sucks arsenic from water
There may be hope for the victims of the Bangladesh arsenic poisoning catastrophe. Chemists at the Sandia National Laboratory in the United States have developed a process to strip the deadly toxin...
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Gats poses threat to public learning
Canada's public university system lies unprotected under key international trade rules, according to a recent legal opinion. An international trade law firm contradicted the Canadian government's...
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Hunter traps venture expert
An expert in entrepreneurship research has been lured back to Scotland by Strathclyde University's multimillion-pound Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. Edinburgh-born Colin Mason, a geography and...
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Glittering prizes
University College Worcester has awarded honorary degrees to: Waqar Azmi , chief executive of the Worcestershire Racial Equality Council; and Debbie Horsfield , who writes drama for theatre and...