Leader: Rewards for failure no cure for exclusion
Election fever is building and the Labour Party's chronic insecurity, despite a massive lead in the opinion polls, is producing some bizarre policies. In an apparent effort to please middle-class...
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Leader: Backers needed in scramble to own gene ideas
This week, we know what the human genome is, although omissions remain to be tidied up. We also know that if gene numbers are the criterion, a rice plant is more complex than a human being. This...
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Higher education appointments
University of Melbourne Mary Galea , currently associate professor in physiotherapy, has been appointed to the inaugural chaor of clinical physiotherapy which will be located in the Austin and...
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Higher education grants and awards
International Society of Electrochemistry Roge Parsons , of the University of Southampton, is the first recipient of the society's Frumkin Memorial Medal for his 'outstanding contributions to many...
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Labour tightens central grip
Prime minister Tony Blair and his ministers have spelled out the shape of things to come in higher education if Labour wins the general election. A clutch of policies and initiatives launched this...
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Next week
NEWS: Nottingham Trent gets entrepreneurial. FEATURES: Peter Singer on the ideal United Nations. RESEARCH: European universities in research competition; growing an ink garden. TEACHING: The Russian...
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FE college debt level on rise
Debt levels in the further education sector are expected to peak this year, according to an analysis published by the Further Education Funding Council. But the borrowing is set against an expected...
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Strike threat over as pay talks resume
Trade unions formally called off industrial action in the new university sector this week as talks on pay and conditions resumed. The unions have given employers until the end of March to improve on...
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Blunkett's right hand man leaves early
Education department chief Sir Michael Bichard is quitting his job six years before retirement, fuelling speculation that education secretary David Blunkett will be moved to a different ministry...
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Science draws up its wish-list for the future
Science and engineering organisations have produced a charter of ten areas the next government will need to address. The charter was launched at a meeting of MPs from all parties. It calls for...
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Relief at new EU laws on copyright
Universities and libraries heaved a sigh of relief this week as the European Parliament passed legislation to harmonise copyright law across Europe. MEPs rejected all but a few amendments to the...
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NI takes more steps to educate youth for jobs
Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Ulster are working with further education colleges to provide foundation degree pilots from September. Higher and further education minister Sean...
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Manchester library gets £6 million boost
Manchester University was celebrating a windfall yesterday as its John Rylands Library received a grant of £6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Victorian neo-Gothic library and its...
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UfI chief leaves for post-16 e-learning job
Anne Wright, chief executive of the University for Industry, announced this week that she is to leave her post in September to become an adviser on post-16 e-learning to the Department for Education...
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Oxford research grant income up 10 per cent
Oxford University's income from research grants and contracts rose by 10 per cent last year (1999-2000) to £130 million. For the first time the value of research grants from United Kingdom charities...