Labour attempts to heal graduate tax rift
The Labour Party's education team was preparing to take emergency action this week to patch up its divisions over proposals for a graduate tax. David Blunkett, Labour's education spokesman, is...
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Latest phase
The new year at Sunderland University will kick off with phase 2 construction of the institution's St Peter Campus. The project will result in a school of computing and information systems, an...
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Legal minimum
New guidelines for minimum areas of knowledge, understanding and intellectual skills, proposed for law degrees by the Law Society and the Council of Legal Education, have been approved by the Lord...
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Eternal struggle for expansion
There were two education ministers in the Conservative Cabinet -- and the senior of them was not prepared to contemplate a higher education policy not endorsed by the University Grants Committee. By...
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Faith and charity
The Canterbury Gospels, a 6th-century bible supplied by Pope Gregory the Great for St Augustine's mission to introduce Christianity to England, is one of many ancient documents on display at an...
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Vivisectionists find tougher trail to MPs
The case for animal experiments will be harder to defend as a result of new guidelines from the Charity Commission, says the Association of Medical Research Charities. The guidelines, issued last...
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Hidden legal traps exposed on the freewheeling net
Fears about the potential for libel on the Internet have resurfaced with the launch of a major lawsuit in the United States. The owner of a US electronic bulletin board, Prodigy Services, is being...
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A right Royal restoration
Huw Richards finds that historians are now beginning to take a serious interest in the much trivialised subject of the Royal family. There is not a telephoto lens among the lot of them, and, while...
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Nigerian strikers' salaries stopped
Nigerian education minister Iyorchia Ayie has stopped salary payments to every university lecturer in the country. The minister ordered vice chancellors at 31 universities to implement his directive...
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Danes set sights on market
Denmark should focus support for academic and public research more selectively on areas where it can be a world leader, according to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development....
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Hunt for defective gene gets under way
Aston University scientists have begun the hunt for the elusive gene which causes Tourette Syndrome, a rare neuropsychiatric disease characterised by recurrent muscle tics and involuntary...
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How nitrate could bring an end to heartache
There are hopes of major improvements in the care of angina patients following the successful investigation of a newly developed nitrate medicine by researchers at King's College School of Medicine...
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ߣߣÊÓƵns see gold on road to Bangkok
Selling higher education to foreigners is now worth more than $1.5 billion (Pounds 750 million) a year to ߣߣÊÓƵ and the federal government expects earnings to rise sharply following its latest...
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Spaniards graduate to dole queues
Spaniards in higher education are considerably worse off than their European Union counterparts according to a report by the educational assessment body of the European Union, the Industrial Research...
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Peak practice for scientists
Intrepid scientists have just completed a breathtaking voyage of discovery taking them to the top of the world to study, among other things, the common cough. The British Mount Everest Medical...