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Record numbers start teacher training Recruitment to teacher training courses has hit a seven-year high. Education secretary Estelle Morris welcomed Teacher Training Agency figures which showed today...
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Training chief apologises John Harwood, the chief executive of the body responsible for post-16 learning and training in England, has issued a personal apology to college heads after he condemned 40...
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First RAE 2001 results expected next week Half the staff who were returned in this year’s research assessment exercise work in subject areas expected to gain the top 5 and 5* grades, according to...
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Drug trial plan offers hope to MS sufferers Hope could be offered to multiple sclerosis sufferers after the government revealed it may carry out clinical trials on 10,000 patients of the expensive...
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Call for research proposals
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US crackdown on student visas The United States is to tighten checking and tracking procedures for overseas student visas in the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. President Bush...
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Literacy teaching still inadequate, says Ofsted Around 40 per cent of seven-year-olds cannot read and write properly because their teachers are not using the right methods and the government's...
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$600m pledge to California Institute of Technology Gordon Moore, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Intel Corporation, and his wife Betty, have promised donations worth $600 million (£414...
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Ministers 'bungled' handling of disease The Government's handling of the foot-and-mouth emergency has been condemned as "lamentable" by a report from the public inquiry into the epidemic. (Times,...
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NEWS Muslim female students speak for themselves FEATURES Can the length of your fingers predict your future health? John Manning peruses the digital divide BOOKS Should Britain be ashamed of its...
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McLeish boy done well
The rise of Henry McLeish, Scotland's former enterprise and lifelong learning minister, who became first minister after Donald Dewar's death last year, has surprised his old school. Mr McLeish admits...
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Agony aunt
Q How can I be sure that my partially sighted student can participate when so much discussion and course material is online? A It is lucky that the materials are online, otherwise it might be harder...
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An unconventional treatment
The dean of University of East Anglia's new medical school thinks 'doctors' and 'nurses' will become obsolete. His radical curriculum will reflect this, he tells Claire Sanders Sam Leinster, dean of...
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Star Turn
Students at Cardiff are annually shown that when it comes to concrete thought, they are bird brains. David Mosford meets the pigeon man who likes to strut his stuff John Pearce is an experimental...