EU urges policy change
Diverging national policies on biotechnology and life sciences could see Europe fall behind the rest of the world in its bid to become a leading knowledge economy. A European Commission report calls...
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Findings: Intestine's best Mait is found
Which part of your body is most at risk from the hazards of the outside world? According to researchers from French biology centre Inserm, the answer is your intestine, writes Martin Ince. The...
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Findings: Dry Mars may support Earth life
Mars may not be as inhospitable to some forms of terrestrial life as previously thought, according to US scientists, writes Natasha Gilbert. Evidence suggests that life forms similar to those found...
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Teesside drugs bust
An employee at the University of Teesside was arrested this week after police discovered a sawn-off shotgun and £100,000 worth of cocaine and heroin in a raid on the campus. Cleveland police...
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Time raises prospects
English graduates partially recover their standing in the job market within four years of graduation, according to Open University researchers. Earlier work had found that their employability six...
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Scots pledge childcare
Single-parent student nurses in Scotland will receive a childcare allowance from September. Health minister Malcolm Chisholm said they would be eligible for up to £1,025 a year for formal childcare...
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Degrees bolster pay
An undergraduate degree adds an average of 25 per cent to earnings, researchers at the University of Warwick have found. Over a full working life, this is an extra £220,000, conclude economists Ian...
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Colleges attack Ofsted
Ofsted uses inadequate methods of assessing the value of educating poorly qualified and disadvantaged students in its inspections of further education colleges, the Association of Colleges told MPs...
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Whistleblowers: College heads criticise AoC selection process
The hunt for a new chief executive of the Association of Colleges was blighted this week by allegations of a potential conflict of interest. The search for candidates for the £120,000-a-year post is...
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Don't be Jack of all trades, become the master of one
Capitalise on strengths and collaborate with others if you want more cash. Alison Goddard reports on the latest funding blueprint The blueprint for the next five years of English higher education was...
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Hodge admits back of envelope planning
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge publicly admitted last week that the decision to designate 70 university teaching departments as centres of excellence by 2006 had not been thought out in...
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Half of HE colleges set sights on university status after rule change
More than half of all higher education colleges are set to bid for a university title, a THES survey has found. Colleges already planning to apply to call themselves a university have been joined by...
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Tree rings save a piece of past
English Heritage has stepped in to save Britain's oldest timber-framed shop, thanks to specialist dating work carried out by a researcher at University College London. The 13th-century structure was...
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Surge in spin-offs fails to bring in the money
Technology transfer activity in universities has increased by 25 per cent in the past year, according to a government survey released this week. UK universities created 248 spin-offs in 2000-01, up...
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Centre to tackle gene advances
An experiment to test journalists' and academics' sensitivity to alcohol was carried out in Exeter last week at the launch of a new centre for thinking about the problems posed by advances in...