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£15m wage boost for lecturers Education secretary David Blunkett announced a £15 million salary boost for further education lecturers at the official launch of the Learning and Skills...
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Financial Times Nanotechnology could produce a new generation of weapons including miniature robots and button-sized detectors of biological and chemical threats, Sir Keith O'Nions, an Oxford...
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Boost for minority languages in Europe The United Kingdom today ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which aims to promote their use in public life. Millions of...
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Wales faces more cuts Welsh universities and higher education colleges face further funding cuts. Figures published today by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales...
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Financial Times The Global Alliance on Tuberculosis Drug Development, a "virtual" research organisation combining the resources of charitable foundations, academia and the pharmaceuticals industry,...
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Dublin takes foot-and-mouth precautions Dublin City University held a “virtual” degree ceremony on Saturday (March 24) as a precaution following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in...
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AUT attacks Tory endowment plan The Association of University Teachers today called Conservative plans to endow universities with up to £1 billion ill-conceived. AUT general secretary David Triesman...
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Financial Times Up to 7,500 young people will be given apprenticeships in the information technology sector as part of a deal between the government and leading computer companies. Corporate...
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Ulster's Catholic classes
Almost 40 per cent of local full-time students in higher education and almost 48 per cent in further education in Northern Ireland are Roman Catholics. Just over 29 per cent in higher education and...
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Russell Group keeps funding options open
The Russell Group of research-led universities has decided against selecting a preferred option for the future funding of higher education. Top-up fees, a graduate contribution, endowments and more...
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Liverpool prepares endowment scheme
Poor Liverpudlians may get extra cash to help them into university as the city council prepares to introduce the first Cubie-style endowment scheme outside Scotland. The director of education has...
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Next-wave product research wins £20m
The government has pledged £20 million towards an interdisciplinary research centre pioneering "next-wave intelligent products" such as fridges that order groceries direct from shops. Universities...
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Test beds ready for healthy volunteers
The first of five clinical research facilities allowing scientists to test treatments on healthy patients opened at Southampton's General Hospital this week. The 12-bed facility, which was built with...
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King's College don guilty of misconduct
A senior medical professor at King's College London has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct. He is the third King's academic to fall foul of the General Medical Council in the past...
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Rent rise plans draw student protests
Students at Durham University are protesting against planned rent rises. Durham plans to raise rents by 11 per cent next year and is considering a phased increase over five years of £200 a year more...