From today's UK papers
Financial Times Bristol and Bath are to be the first universities in the UK to form a joint venture science park. Stefan Wagstyl says that Akademgorodok, the campus town housing Russia's scientific...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A series of youthful appointments to head some of the world's leading business schools marks the retirement of the old guard and points to an increased emphasis on the latest forms of...
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Latest UK news
Scientists lobby party leaders Scientists are lobbying the political party leaders to canvass support for British research. The Save British Science organisation has been urging people to raise...
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NEWS Election 2001: what the manifestos promise for higher education FEATURES Tim Flannery describes how North America has plundered its natural resources BOOKS The "meme" meme: fertile or sterile?...
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News in brief
Teachers still needed in e-learning world E-learning will change the role and skills of teachers but not eliminate them altogether, according to an Institute for Employment Studies report published...
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Academic 'terrorised' by English PhD numbers
Excessive recruitment to PhD programmes in English is causing a "major social disaster", says Annabel Patterson, a British professor in the English department at Yale University, in the United States...
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GM trials threaten organic research
Researchers investigating organic farming have called for a genetically modified crop trial in Warwickshire to be abandoned after it emerged that it threatens the Henry Doubleday Research Association...
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Dons rebel over onerous review
The Treasury-driven "transparency review" of universities' spending on teaching and research is facing mounting rebellion from lecturers. Local branches of lecturers' union Natfhe are arguing that...
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Fury as less inclusive campuses win extra cash
Universities with poor records at attracting students from state schools will receive extra cash next year despite strong opposition from more inclusive institutions, it was confirmed this week....
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Split in sector is stifling lifelong learning, warns Niace leader
The government is creating a divide between further and higher education that is stifling progress in lifelong learning, an adult education leader said this week. The focus of ministers' post-16...
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Cornwall nets £19m
Higher education in Cornwall has received a boost after the government pledged £19 million to the Combined Universities in Cornwall project. The scheme, run jointly by Exeter and Plymouth...
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Whistleblowers: Hefce reports on Lipa
The extent of management and accountability shortcomings at the " Fame " school, set up by former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, is revealed this week in a long-awaited audit report by funding chiefs....
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Ulster bid to help with nurse shortfall in Eire
The Republic of Ireland has called in the University of Ulster to train nurse trainers as it faces the first shortage of nurses in its history. The university could find increasing numbers of Irish...
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Don warns of end of academic self-rule
Six hundred years of academic self-rule at Cambridge University will end if it pushes ahead with plans to modernise its management, a don warned last week. Speaking at a Senate House debate on the...