Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone
Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone has told representatives of lecturers' union Natfhe that the government is committed to "mass higher education". At a meeting this week arranged by...
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Exeter prepares exodus
UP to 40 academics are expected to leave Exeter University in an attempt by the university to balance its budget after a poor showing in the research assessment exercise. The university needs to lose...
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National school tests reinforce sense of failure
Competitive school testing and national targets reinforce the sense of failure in low-achieving pupils, according to King's College London research published today. Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam at...
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Appointments
University of Ulster Roger Ellis, professor and dean of the faculty of social and health sciences and education, has been appointed to strategic adviser to the vice-chancellor on all matters relating...
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Tapping into power down the drain
THE science of waste disposal and recycling is under investigation at Hull University's Centre for Waste and Pollution Research, opened earlier this month. Research will focus on water flow in...
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Exhaustive investigation tests for lung damage
Ken Donaldson, professor of biological science at Napier University, is heading a Pounds 110,000 initiative to investigate how microscopic particles from vehicle exhausts are damaging the nation's...
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Saltmarshes vital in protecting the sea
The vital role of saltmarshes in preventing manmade pollutants from reaching the sea is being studied by Cardiff University earth scientists who warn that global warming could spell disaster for...
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Feelgoods factor helps blind round Internet
COMPUTER-users are feeling their way around virtual graphics in a project to help blind people explore the Internet. Chetz Colwell, a researcher in the sensory disabilities research unit at...
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Man to blame for present and future disasters
Manmade disasters will be just as common in the future as they are today, despite improved technology, because of man's "abject failure" to learn from the past, it was argued this week. David Weir,...
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Electron microscope in sight for materialists
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has awarded materials scientists at the universities of Birmingham, Loughborough and Warwick Pounds 750,000 to buy a new electron microscope. Made as...
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Universities 'still far from sexually egalitarian'
Gender research reveals surprising attitudes to women a work Confident female university lecturers are often seen as "scary" by their students, while the institutions in which they work are far from...
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Chechens see light on the road to Damascus
Chechnia is sending students to Syria to be trained as future "ideological personnel", according to Russian public television. The first contingent has arrived at the "supreme Islamic Institute" in...
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Graduates join student doctor revolution
Melbourne SHE IS 54 years of age, physically active and has rarely had a day's illness in her life. But, as she confides to a friend at the local gymnasium, she has recently discovered a lump in her...
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Devaluing the human factor
OPPOSITION to a ban on the reproductive cloning of human beings is based on two main types of argument. One defends individual "rights" to clone, the second scientific freedom. There is a fundamental...
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What to learn from training
GOVERNMENT responses to the Dearing report are expected soon -probably now before publication of the ever receding, once white, now green, lifelong learning paper. One recommendation expected to find...