Equal misery in 5% cut
Top-notch universities have lost out to more vulnerable institutions in a share-the-misery exercise applied to funding allocations for 1996/97, announced yesterday. Institutions which might have...
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Teikyo two in Aids scandal, Tokyo
Vice president Takeshi Abe of private Teikyo University, Japan, which has a branch campus at Durham and has supported two colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, has resigned after being accused of murder...
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Charity warning
Medical research charities have issued their strongest warning yet that they will not pay for university infrastructure, such as laboratories or major equipment. They are increasingly worried that...
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Ron's lot sorted by Easter
The membership of Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education is expected to be agreed before Easter. The main issue confronting Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard, who will...
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Physics posts have rocketed sky high
Academic appointments in particle physics and astronomy have grown strongly in recent years despite a decline in research funding for the disciplines. Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle...
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Moss is possible oil-slick mopper
A Cardiff academic who has been testing a new method of oil spill clean-up says it could have made a great contribution to mopping up the oil released by the tanker Sea Empress at Milford Haven,...
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Oxford Brookes snubs president's complaints
A committee of senior staff at Oxford Brookes University has rejected all but three of the 66 complaints made by former student union president Mags Whelan against her former executive. But...
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Raise your glasses, please
(Photograph) - Raise your glasses, please: Leonard Hewitt's Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University - nicknamed the "toast rack" - is one of eight post war university buildings to be...
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Stature and her liberty
Marina Warner's position outside mainstream academia may have served her well, says Elaine Williams What is a woman from Vogue doing taking on the Church?' That's what the critics were saying. You...
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Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...
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Low seepage syndrome
Soviet-style secrecy has a long half life as far as radiation is concerned, and it is endangering lives. Tim Cornwell reports Under President Bill Clinton, the US government has been busy...
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Too few loaves, hardly any fishes
More people, higher expectations and dwindling food stocks all add up to a disaster we will be unable to ignore. Martin Ince reports Global warming has caused a worldwide argument between the merely...
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A joint cake is better than a slice
There used to be a binary line between one type of advanced education and another. With the re-creation of the polytechnics and some colleges of higher education into universities, the line has...
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Wound that must heal
In the Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela describes apartheid as a policy that "created a deep and lasting wound". It is a wound that has damaged people, institutions like the University of Natal...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Arrived to observe the Iowa caucus, an early part of the presidential election. In time to experience temperatures among the lowest ever recorded here - lower than -40o Fahrenheit. Find...