Disabled lose fight to study medicine
The Court of Appeal has thrown out a landmark case on the rights of disabled people to study and practise medicine. Paraplegic Heidi Cox had won the right to sue the General Medical Council for...
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Ethics of Biobank challenged by group
The decision to fund the UK Biobank - the world's largest study of the interaction of genes, environment and health - has been dismissed as premature by a research pressure group. The Wellcome Trust...
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Osaka
Japan's Osaka University is to form an information exchange alliance with 16 Japanese companies, including Sony and Matsu****a, for future joint developments in bio-IT.
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Beijing
Tsinghua University has recruited 28 foreign academics as visiting professors from institutions that include Harvard University.
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Washington DC
Nearly half of US university students expect to receive no job offers while 20 per cent anticipate only one, according to a survey by job-search company Monster.com.
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Bichard: 'time to worship creativity'
The government worships the "twin towers of science and technology" and is neglecting the creative arts in the economy of the future, according to a former Whitehall education official. Michael...
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Lib Dems look to Scots system for student funding inspiration
The Liberal Democrats may base part of their revised national higher education policy on the Scottish student funding solution. Baroness Sharp, the party's education spokeswoman in the House of Lords...
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It's official: 'too much red tape'
Matti Alderson could become an unlikely hero for lecturers who fear that red tape is damaging their ability to teach and research. As chairwoman of the Cabinet Office task force looking at the...
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Creative masters launched
Huddersfield University has launched what is claimed to be the world's first "creative imaging" masters course. The programme, which is being run in conjunction with the brand communications firm...
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UK e-science centre opens
Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged that investment in science would be a priority of the public spending review when he opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) based at Edinburgh University. Mr...
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Call for a united push on training
Business and further and higher education must put their weight behind the development of new sector skills councils to bring training in Britain up to European standards, a conference heard last...
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Santiago
An estimated 12,000 Chilean university students have demonstrated outside the education ministry and in university cities to protest at cuts in student grants and university funding. Fifteen students...
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Oxbridge sojourn sparks Italian bid for excellence
An independent "college", partly inspired by the Oxbridge model, is to open in Milan in January 2003 with the support of a consortium, the Italian branch of the Aspen Institute and eminent academics...
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Project looks to 'eurograds'
Eight European universities, including Loughborough and Wales (Bangor), have set up a consortium to offer joint postgraduate degrees for international students. The European Graduate Studies Group...
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Nyet to tainting mother tongue
Russian politicians and officials are to be issued with a guide to the proper use of the Russian language in a drive, headed by top university experts, to maintain standards. The pamphlet, A...