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Academic heads medical watchdog Alistair Scotland, director of medical education and research at London’s Chelsea and Westminster, will be the first chief officer of the doctors’ watchdog announced...
Academic heads medical watchdog Alistair Scotland, director of medical education and research at London’s Chelsea and Westminster, will be the first chief officer of the doctors’ watchdog announced...
Academic heads medical watchdog Alistair Scotland, director of medical education and research at London’s Chelsea and Westminster hospital, will be the first chief officer of the doctors’ watchdog...
OBE Patricia Greenhalgh , senior lecturer, department of primary care and population science, University College London, for services to evidence based medical care.
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Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Jacques Offenbach. Start the Week (9.00 am R4, repeated 9.30) includes Ronan Bennett and psychoanalyst Andrew Samuels (who is keen on putting...
Countryfile (11.00 am BBC1, not Scotland). Special celebrating Britain's conservationists. The Making of Tosca (11.30 am C5). Australian documentary about a Sydney production of Puccini's opera. Two...
Private Passions (12 noon R3). Philosopher A.C. Grayling with his choice of music. The Lord Lieutenants (3.30 R4). First of four programmes in which Richard Stilgoe looks at the history and current...
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a Californian university professor will erode the objectivity of research funded by corporations, according to worried American academics. In the California case...
There will be no real-terms increase in the unit of funding for teaching and core research next year, the latest funding council figures confirm. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has...

"Margaret Thatcher - saviour of the Open University." The label is less familiar than "milk snatcher" or "iron lady", but cabinet papers for 1970, released earlier this week under the 30-year rule,...
Performance-related pay is set to be introduced in universities as part of a series of measures to tackle poor teaching and stop the threatened brain drain of top academics. Lecturers' leaders and...