Nairobi gets tough on graduate loan arrears
Kenya's higher education loans board has asked employers to disclose the names of graduate employees so that it can impose a higher interest rate on outstanding loans. More than 60,000 graduates owe...
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Beyond words
(Photograph) - "Wittgenstein", one of frou digital portraits of philosophers and thinkers by Guillem Ramos-Poqui, head of fine art and theoretical studies at Kensington and Chelsea College, London....
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Laptop loans give business students 'anywhere access'
Cranfield School of Management has provided laptops to all of its full-time Master of Business Administration students as part of their Pounds 18,500 tuition package. Deborah Harry, Cranfield's...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS www....
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Gesture control
The University of Dundee's department of applied computing has been awarded Pounds 50,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a three-year project that could mean the end of...
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Shared savvy in how to hit the web running
Malcolm Peltu reports on how UCL's training experience is now helping the wider community gain a business foothold on the net A training approach developed at University College London for teaching...
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Jam today would be better than a plan for tomorrow
To expand or not to expand? And if to expand, expand what? Chris Woodhead, head of the schools inspectorate, thinks higher education has expanded enough, perhaps even too much: there will not be...
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Nasty question for Nice
The new National Institute for Clinical Excellence is right to ask for more facts about Relenza, Glaxo Wellcome's new flu drug (page 64). For the GP, few prospects are worse than a drug that...
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Scientific spectacles
Biscuit-dunking, IgNobel-winning physicist Len Fisher wonders if popular platforms can get across the real wonders of science Harvard University's Sanders Theatre was packed last week for an event...
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Eau de Pig is a hit
A synthetic "pig muck" scent developed by British scientists that would put off even the most ardent suitor is attracting the attention of livestock farmers. The foul-smelling brew was cooked up by...
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Scientists put a cork in snorers
A radical treatment for snoring, which involves modifying the palate with radio waves, has been given a glowing bill of health in long-term tests. A team from the Stanford Sleep Disorders and...
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Health: blessing of only the rich?
Research into the link between mortality and inequality has been given a boost by a government that appears to care more. Geoff Watts reports According to an 1842 report on "the sanitary conditions...
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The estates we're in: the finance 'jam' has been spread too thinly and too erratically for far too long
UK research may be a world leader but, Brian Salter argues, it urgently needs an injection of cash to stem the decay in its infrastructure As the funding councils launch their reviews of research...
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Soft subjects suffer low esteem
Scientists and the public share doubts about research, but findings in social science are least respected, say Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt A few weeks ago we conducted a survey of delegates and...
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Going public will bolster global profile of UK science
Lloyd Anderson surveys the British Council's efforts to foster partnerships and raise awareness of UK creativity The United Kingdom is highly regarded for education, but it falls into a second...