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EDUCATION- Scottish Education: Beyond DevolutionBy Tom Bryce, professor of education, University of Strathclyde, and Walter Humes, research professor of education, University of the West of Scotland...
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First Impressions competition: 31 July 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from one of the first existentialist novels:"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man" Entries, including...
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A calling to engage with the God hypothesis
Olga Wojtas meets a Kirk minister bringing faith-centred education to the Highlands and Islands
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Aberystwyth/Bangor universities - How green is their study
Welsh Education Minister Jane Hutt has announced £23.5 million funding for research into some of the world's major environmental challenges. The cash from the Welsh Assembly Government will help...
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University of Ulster - Power of the grey pound
Supermarkets should lend an ear to senior citizens if they want to keep their trade in the future. That's the message from consumer scientists at the University of Ulster who have been analysing...
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Durham/British Columbia universities - It's science. No, it's magic
Psychologists could gain a far greater insight into how humans think and act by analysing tricks and techniques used by magicians, according to research from Durham University and the University of...
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Anglia Ruskin University - A shift in time
Employers who need shift workers are being paired with student jobseekers through a new "slivers of time" initiative at Anglia Ruskin University. The university's employment bureau says it is...
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Cranfield University - Top guns in Beds
Members of the Nigerian Air Force could find themselves in the Home Counties splendour of Bedfordshire following a five-year contract to provide postgraduate training for the force agreed with...
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University of East Anglia - Found in translation
Authors and translators from across the globe last week attended an unusual event at the University of East Anglia. Organised by the British Centre for Literary Translation, the summer school allows...
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University of Leicester - Sick bee syndrome
Bumblebees go "off colour" and cannot remember which flowers have the most nectar when they are feeling under the weather, a new study from the University of Leicester has found. The study indicates...
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Institute of Education - Target culture under fire
The Government's plans for a holistic approach to children's education could fail if it becomes too mired in targets, according to a new study from the Institute of Education. It criticises the...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - Out of the minds of babes
Experiments to study cognition in babies have kicked off at the Royal Holloway Baby Lab, which has been set up to look at the development of abilities such as memory and thinking. Jeanne Shinskey is...
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University of Leeds - A little help for m'learned friends
Lawyers who feel a little confused when it comes to the latest in DNA evidence should beat a path to the University of Leeds, where a new course aims to provide them with the latest information....
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Loughborough University - Regeneration gain
With a current chronic shortage of organ donors boosting demand for new therapies involving the repair or replacement of cells, tissues or organs, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...
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University of Nottingham - 10,000 hits for campus cops
More than 10,000 hits have been recorded for an online video clip showing MA student Rizwaan Sabir being arrested by police on the campus of the University of Nottingham in 2007 while on a...