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British novelist wins literature Nobel Trinidad-born British writer V S Naipaul is the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The citation says that it was awarded "for having united...
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Daily Telegraph A record number of students started at university this month, undeterred by the prospect of leaving with large debts, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service....
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Natfhe angered by consultation snub Lecturers' leaders have attacked vice-chancellors for excluding staff from plans for a higher education ombudsman. Lecturers’ union Natfhe has written to...
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Record numbers studying at UK institutions More students than ever are studying at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, according to data released today by the...
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Three share Nobel award for chemistry Two Americans and a Japanese scientist have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular research used in making medicines. William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori...
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The Guardian Many of those involved in modern social policy will tonight pay tribute to Richard Titmuss, Britain's first professor of social administration. The Times&...
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Tories back university expansion Shadow higher education spokesman Alistair Burt told delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool that there was no going back on university expansion...
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Today's main story The 100th Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to Sir Paul Nurse, the director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, his British colleague Dr Timothy Hunt, the head of...
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Nobel prize physicists named American physicists Eric A. Cornell (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT) and Carl E. Wieman (JILA and University of Colorado...
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Cell scientists win Nobel Scientist Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, was today awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. He shares it with his colleague Timothy Hunt and...
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The Independent Oxford University scientists have discovered methods to detect breast cancer that will lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses. Financial Times US business students remained level...
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Rio hospital cancels operations Surgical operations at Rio de Janeiro's Clementino Fraga Filho university hospital have been reduced from more than 50 per day to just six in a state of emergency...
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Funding boss to sideline RAE results
Researchers who improve their standing in the current research assessment exercise will receive no reward next year. And those who slip a grade will not be penalised. Sir Howard Newby, who took over...
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