Scientists close in on key to killer meningitis
Oxford University scientists claim to have discovered the genes that transform harmless meningitis bugs into killers. This breakthrough is expected to boost development of a vaccine against the...
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Inaugural LSC meeting outlines mission
Members of the Learning and Skills Council, which will take over responsibility for funding all post-16 education and training from April, met for the first time this week. The meeting on Tuesday was...
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Noise gives neighbours most cause for grief
The most common complaint about neighbours is excessive noise, Glasgow University researchers have found. A report on legal remedies for nuisance neighbours - written by Tom Mullen, senior lecturer...
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Rowlands appointed to Welsh council chair
Enid Rowlands has been appointed chairwoman of the National Council for Education and Training in Wales. Ms Rowlands has chaired the North Wales Health Authority since 1998. She is managing director...
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Alexander takes up lifelong learning post
Wendy Alexander has been confirmed as minister for enterprise and lifelong learning in the Scottish cabinet. She was named by her predecessor, Henry McLeish, the new first minister, who moved Sam...
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Nottingham launches life sciences gateway
The University of Nottingham has launched an internet service to help life scientists search the web more efficiently. The Biome hub has five subject-specific gateways. They cover: biological and...
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Quick action thwarts sleeping sickness
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine helped save the life of a tourist suffering from deadly sleeping sickness contracted in a Zambian game park. The school supplied the drug suramin to the...
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Search for life 'out there' gets UK home
The UK's first Centre for Astrobiology will open its doors next week. The centre in Cardiff is a joint initiative between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine. The...
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ILT welcomes its 2,000th member
Trisha Greenhalgh, a senior lecturer in primary healthcare at the Royal Free and University College medical school and a part-time GP, has become the 2,000th member of the Institute of Teaching and...
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Old ones that got away surface in Germany
Fossils of the earliest creature with a backbone, stolen from Scotland, could soon be returning after being discovered at a German university museum. Up to a dozen 430 million-year-old fossils of...
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Enrolments stalled by cost
Growth in enrolments at Welsh higher education institutions ground to a halt for all but postgraduate taught courses in 1998-99, the year fees were introduced and grants abolished. Data for 1998-99...
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Head of Ofsted 'monster' spits fire at committee of MPs
Ofsted chief inspector Chris Woodhead defended his controversial habit of commenting on education issues when he appeared before MPs this week. In often heated exchanges with MPs, he told the House...
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Threat to bursaries as bill is delayed
Scottish students risk missing out on bursaries next year because of an upheaval over the drafting of legislation on student support. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning...
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Lecturers to go back to school in drive to lift standards
The government moved to raise the standards of teaching and management in further education colleges this week, announcing a compulsory professional training programme for all new lecturers and...
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Missing appeals unknown to chief
Bill Morton, acting head of the troubled Scottish Qualifications Authority, this week confessed that he had not known of its latest failure to meet deadlines, writes Olga Wojtas. The SQA has been...