Up to 100 jobs may go in astronomy shake-up
PROPOSED restructuring of Britain's Royal Observatories will cost Pounds 7.5 million over the next four years, according to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's latest business plan...
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Proposal to close the Royal Observatory's Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
A proposal to close the Royal Observatory's Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope in the Canary Islands would save little money but would have a substantial scientific impact, warns Steve Unger, director of the...
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Hard-up members quit league
The Association of Commonwealth Universities could be seriously weakened if any more British universities drop out to save money, its new secretary general has warned. At least three have withdrawn...
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Qualifications revamp urged
The qualifications system in higher education needs to be redefined and updated, academics are to be told. Quality chiefs want universities and colleges to work towards a common framework for the...
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Infectious inaccuracy
First the Today programme on Radio Four, now you. E. coli O157 may indeed be virulent but it is a bacterium, not a virus, and the O is a letter, not a zero. DOUGLAS KELL Institute of Biological...
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Rich pickings
MORE THAN 100,000 extra students would crowd UK lecture theatres if as many people at the bottom of the social scale went to university as the current average. Young people from the wealthiest...
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Five-star funding for fab four
"UNDERHAND elitism" in the Higher Education Funding Council for England's research funding methodology has created an "unassailable super-elite" of four top institutions, according to vice...
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Finance trio go as deficit revealed
THE University of Luton has been rocked by the shock revelation of serious deficits. Three top finance officers had their contracts terminated when the university discovered that an expected Pounds 1...
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Quality job decision imminent
The new single quality agency for higher education is expected to announce its chief executive this week after months of speculation over who would apply for the Pounds 60,000-a-year job. On the...
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An udder success
(Photograph) - An udder success: scientists at Liverpool University's veterinary school have joined with a local business in a bid to eradicate a parasite responsible for abortions in cows. One in...
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Discretionary grants tumble by 39 per cent
The number of higher education discretionary grants awarded by local authorities dropped to 9,000 in 1995/96 - a fall of 39 per cent on the previous year. Government figures show spending on these...
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Westminster set to privatise student housing
WESTMINSTER University has released details of plans to privatise its Pounds 28 million student housing estate. The university hopes to sell off its estate in return for an 80 per cent increase in...
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Brains topple brawn as Newcastle's top employer
Higher Education has overtaken heavy industry as one of Newcastle's top employers, according to research from Northumbria University. Local Impact of the University of Northumbria, from the...
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Cambridge computer to unlock secrets of cosmos
A Pounds 2 million supercomputer has been installed at Cambridge University to help scientists researching the history of the universe. Cambridge-based Stephen Hawking, the leading physicist and...
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Cern collider mock-up goes on show in Glasgow
A model of Cern's Large Electron Positron Collider has gone on show as part of a major new exhibition at Glasgow University. At Cern's Geneva base, electrons are accelerated around the km-long tunnel...