MRC eyes biomarkers
The Medical Research Council has launched £17 million worth of projects designed to explore the indicators of disease known as biomarkers. Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the MRC, said: "We've...
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Risky business
The Government's plans to move towards employer-led degrees pose risks for higher education, according to a report from an education think-tank. The Higher Education Policy Institute said that...
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Champion fighting the rise of 'doctor factories'
Professor Sir John Tooke has been thrust into the heart of a fundamental debate about the direction and nature of UK higher education. As dean of the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, Sir John is...
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200 scientists join forces
Huge cross-discipline gene study leads to breakthroughs and calls for more collaborations, Olga Wojtas writes. This week sees the publication of the results of the £9 million Wellcome Trust Case...
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Sustainable grounds for campus growth
Universities must court students keen to be green, writes Rebecca Attwood. Universities will have to go green to stay competitive, according to the student campaign group behind a new league table...
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Artificial snot created
Researchers have created artificial "snot" to enhance the performance of electronic noses. The researchers, at Warwick and Leicester universities, have coated the sensors used by odour-sensing "...
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Library for Aberdeen
Aberdeen University is to build a new library in the next phase of its ten-year £228 million investment programme. The £55.5 million project will be the largest capital fundraising project undertaken...
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Diabetes work backed
Scientists at Swansea University's School of Medicine have been awarded more than £93,000 by the Bupa Foundation to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate...
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A prince of bricklayers
A new take on one of the most enduring of historical mysteries - the fate of the princes in the Tower who were allegedly killed by Richard III - has been provided by Leicester University historian...
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Centre for rural youth
The UHI Millennium Institute will launch the UHI Centre for Rural Childhood later this year. The research centre aims to improve the lives of children and young people who live in rural areas.
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Hotfoot from New York
A dance lecturer from the University of Bedfordshire has returned from New York, where he worked and studied with some of the city's top contemporary dance artists. The visit by James Hewison, a...
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Arts-science link-up
John Harper, a senior lecturer in fine art at Northampton University, has been awarded £11,000 by the Arts Council to fund a one-year research project that will pave the way for a centre for...
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UCU action threatens to cause a lasting rift
The UCU vote for a possible boycott of Israel divides academe. Melanie Newman and Nathan Jeffay report. Concerns are growing at home and abroad that supporters of a boycott have let the genie out of...
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'There is more anti-Semitism in the UK than there is in Germany'
Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, has pledged to lead a campaign to visit financial and legal ruin on any UK academic backing a boycott of Israeli academe....
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Fight is on to make peace over race
Despite many advances, South Africa's rainbow campuses disguise lingering racial splits, learns Karen MacGregor. When South African university leaders met President Thabo Mbeki recently to discuss...