From today's UK papers
Literacy teaching still inadequate, says Ofsted Around 40 per cent of seven-year-olds cannot read and write properly because their teachers are not using the right methods and the government's...
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$600m pledge to California Institute of Technology Gordon Moore, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Intel Corporation, and his wife Betty, have promised donations worth $600 million (£414...
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From today's UK papers
Ministers 'bungled' handling of disease The Government's handling of the foot-and-mouth emergency has been condemned as "lamentable" by a report from the public inquiry into the epidemic. (Times,...
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NEWS Muslim female students speak for themselves FEATURES Can the length of your fingers predict your future health? John Manning peruses the digital divide BOOKS Should Britain be ashamed of its...
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McLeish boy done well
The rise of Henry McLeish, Scotland's former enterprise and lifelong learning minister, who became first minister after Donald Dewar's death last year, has surprised his old school. Mr McLeish admits...
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Agony aunt
Q How can I be sure that my partially sighted student can participate when so much discussion and course material is online? A It is lucky that the materials are online, otherwise it might be harder...
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An unconventional treatment
The dean of University of East Anglia's new medical school thinks 'doctors' and 'nurses' will become obsolete. His radical curriculum will reflect this, he tells Claire Sanders Sam Leinster, dean of...
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Star Turn
Students at Cardiff are annually shown that when it comes to concrete thought, they are bird brains. David Mosford meets the pigeon man who likes to strut his stuff John Pearce is an experimental...
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Binding promise
Rational drug design is making huge advances in the treatment of disease. Julian Hiscox and Gail Lynagh report Since the time of Alexander Fleming's fortuitous discovery of penicillin, the search for...
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Cutting edge
On the trail of the dark and dangerous criminal monster that is lurking below the surface of Russian life The sort of news I read tends to be depressing. Drug seizures in Moscow. Another contract...
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It's blue skies ahead for adaptable Irish academy
The Royal Irish Academy is undergoing its first root-and-branch review. Olga Wojtas reports The Royal Irish Academy was founded in 1785 with a charter from George III as a society for "promoting the...
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Wellcome waits on starting block
A national cell bank could allow the UK to take the lead in stem-cell research, says the Wellcome Trust's Robert Terry The recent change in the law regulating the purposes for which human embryos can...
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From today's UK papers
Universities 'on the cheap' will fail students Extra financial help for poorer students is no substitute for more money for the universities for teaching and research, MPs and peers told the...
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Randall up for NHS post
Former quality boss John Randall this week emerged as a contender for chief executive of the government's University of the National Health Service. Mr Randall, who resigned as chief executive of the...
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SA research output declines
Research output at most of South Africa's leading universities has declined over the past eight years, according to government figures that measure productivity by articles in recognised publications...