Approaching a cure for croup
Scottish scientists believe they are a step closer to wiping out one of the world's most distressing childhood conditions, after winning a grant from an American drugs company to develop new drugs...
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Technology drive by new coalition
Austria's ruling parties have made technology and innovation a priority and have put a controversial figure in charge. Michael Gardner reports Headlines around the world have focused on the arrival...
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Dreams, dogs, design
John Wood asks students to take on a persona when writing projects, to dream in the written, not just the visual form. Jennifer Currie hears his ideas John Wood has every reason to be pleased. He has...
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Agony aunt
Q A tutor in our department suffers from BO. We had ignored the problem, but a student has complained that seminars are intolerable. What should we do? A First, consider who has what problem. The...
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Caution
Universities have been advised to beef up their network security procedures after a wave of commercially destructive attacks on popular websites in the United States last week. The computer attacks...
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'Dogs' to be 'shot' at UCE
A radical policy to cut drop-out rates at the University of Central England could block access and lead to large-scale course closures, academics fear. One dean interpreted the policy as meaning that...
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Death knell rings for Ismail?
(Photograph) - Hundreds of students marched through Oxford this week in protest against the abolition of the maintenance grant and the introduction of tuition fees. Of more than 100 Oxford students...
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Mining starts Cornish explosion
Camborne School of Mines will move 15 miles to help form the hub of a new campus under the latest scheme for a Cornish university. Earth science, mining and engineering courses at Camborne will join...
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Three tiers for Blunkett's plan
Universities face their biggest challenge in 35 years as the government this week opened the door to institutional diversity, vocational foundation degrees, e-universities and differentiated tuition...
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Probe into business of qualification checks
The Data Protection Registrar's Office is intending to probe the relationship between the Higher Education Statistics Agency and Experian, which plans to run a commercial service to check whether job...
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Heavenly home
On telephoning the Lord Chancellor's Office to inquire as to the coming into operation of a recent Act of Parliament, I was told by a lady with a pleasant Irish brogue that it would happen at...
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Wellcome governor under investigation
The furore surrounding Roy Anderson, the suspended professor of zoology at Oxford University and a governor of the Wellcome Trust, has intensified as it emerged his business interests are under...
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Go-ahead for Scots football academy
Heriot-Watt University and Heart of Midlothian football club are to create a Pounds 5 million football academy. The Hearts board said this week that the academy would allow rising stars "to combine...
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US offers holiday jobs to UK students
All-time low levels of unemployment in the United States have forced nine major American summer employers to seek student recruits in the United Kingdom to fill more than 8,000 vacation jobs. The...
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Pounds 700,000 for research into chronic pain
Scottish higher education institutions are tackling the problem of chronic pain in two separate initiatives. Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh and Stirling and Glasgow Caledonian...