Call for education grants for over-55s
The government should introduce education grants for over-55s. These would cut healthcare and social-service bills as well as redress a serious imbalance in education policy, according to a report....
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Rift over pay threatens expansion
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...
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Whistle blown on Manchester fan myth
It is one of the most enduring truths in Premiership football and a crumb of comfort for the bitter Manchester City fan. But the cliche of the Manchester United faithful making the trip to Old...
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College girls miffed at axing
The decision to cancel the fifth episode of College Girls , the Channel 4 documentary on students at the all-women's Oxford college of St Hilda's, has angered the students who took part. Ruth Hunt,...
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News The battle for accreditation of business schools Features Controversial bestselling scientist Stephen Wolfram confronts his critics How to get and keep more women in science Charles Tripp...
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Southampton forms military alliance
* The University of Southampton has joined forces with the Royal Military College of Science to offer university places to those wanting a technical career in the forces or a civilian role in the...
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Flood of applicants for new EU funding
The European Commission has taken advantage of the recent approval of the terms of the Sixth Framework Programme by announcing that it has had about 12,000 expressions of interest for funding from...
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Imperial spin-off wins competition
A spin-off company from Imperial College London, has won equipment worth €30,000 (£19,000) in a pan-European Hewlett Packard new-ventures competition. PhotoBiotics Ltd beat 20 entrants from 11...
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£400,000 to develop social-work degree
The Department of Health has announced an extra £400,000 for the design and development of the new social-work degree, to be introduced over two years from September 2003. Health minister Jacqui...
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Stirling recruits staff on back of RAE boost
Stirling University is today advertising 11 posts in The THES totalling more than £360,000 a year, following its success in the research assessment exercise. Christine Hallett, deputy principal for...
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Whodunnit house set up on campus
The University of Teesside has converted a large terraced building on the campus into a "crime house". Inside the rabbit warren of 16 rooms will be hidden clues to simulated criminal acts of every...
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Crusty dons should be more modern
Academics should spin themselves as vibrant rather than crusty, a seminar will hear next week. Peter Scott, vice-chancellor of Kingston University, will speak at the first of a series of seminars...
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Air travel adds to global warming
A scientist has warned that air travel is having a major impact on global warming. Tim O'Riordan, a member of the UK sustainable development commission from the Zuckerman Institute for connective...
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Students help school pupils to aspire
Undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University of Bradford will go back to school next week as part of a new mentoring project with Salts Grammar School in Bradford. The project is...
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Scots backing for comprehensive schools
Scots back the country's current system of comprehensive education, according to researchers at Edinburgh University's Moray House school of education. The researchers gave the results of a Scottish...