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US gets medical rival to Nobel An 89-year-old industrialist has established the United States’ largest award for medical research, rivalling the Nobel Prize, with a $50 million endowment. From next...
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Shefc funds for disability access
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has earmarked more than £300,000 to help Scottish universities check how they are improving access for students with disabilities. The government is soon...
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Extra degree places promised in Northern Ireland
Higher and further education have featured strongly in Northern Ireland's programme for government. The first detailed policy document drawn up by locally elected politicians after 30 years of direct...
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Scots warned to stay vigilant on inclusion
Universities must guard against complacency in the wake of performance indicators on social inclusion, a Scottish conference on widening access heard. Bob Osborne, professor of applied policy studies...
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Analysis: 'What is your subject centre doing for you?'
That's one of the first questions Hefce chief Sir Brian Fender will be asking staff in universities he visits. Claire Sanders and Alison Utley report on the new Learning and Teaching Support network...
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In the news: Condoleezza Rice
Her name comes from the musical term "con dolcezza", to perform with sweetness, but Condoleezza Rice's performance so far has been tough in both ideas and action. She is tipped to take the post of...
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Don's Diary
Saturday Johannesburg airport. The plane is packed with community health workers jaunting off to consider poverty issues. If it fell, most of Southern Africa's leading brains on community health...
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Glittering prizes
Jonathon Porritt is to receive an honorary degree of doctor of science from the University of the West of England in recognition of his contribution to environmental science and to the public...
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On the move
Leszek (Les) Borysiewicz , head of medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, has been appointed principal of Imperial College School of Medicine from February, succeeding Christopher...
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Iron lady breaks mould
Murmurs of dissent are expected next Tuesday at the Political Studies Association's 50th Anniversary Awards Ceremony, when a special "Breaking the Mould" award is made to Baroness Thatcher. Indeed,...
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Latest UK news
Blair stands up for science Tony Blair made an “unashamedly pro-science” speech to the Biotechnology Industry Conference in London today. He declared that he would not let the United Kingdom slip...
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Solving vote farce
Absentee postal votes are still eligible to be counted until today in Florida, the state that has proved crucial in the race for the US presidency, even though the election was held almost two weeks...
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Clothing firm taken to the cleaners
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...
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Japanese firm links with Scot spin-off
A leading Japanese drugs company has signed a £5.2 million deal with Scottish Biomedical, the company set up by leading Scottish universities to promote research in the medical sciences. Kyorin...
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Tool to catch net copycats
Student coursework will soon be subjected to routine electronic screening in an effort by universities to stamp out plagiarism. Software from the United States, which claims to be able to detect work...