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Health professionals get £6 million boost The government has announced a £6 million package to support the training and careers of health professionals. The National Health Service plans to increase...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Harvard Business School and Stanford University are exploring plans to develop and deliver online courses in executive and management education. DAILY TELEGRAPH Scientists from...
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TV & radio guide - Monday
Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Brahms. Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Featuring Margaret Drabble on George Orwell, and Peter Linebaugh on early American history. Book of the Week...
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TV & radio guide - Sunday
The Two Cultures? (2.25 am C4) What science can tell us about our appreciation of art. Oxford art historian Martin Kemp and UCL psychologist Chris McManus are among the experts. (Interesting repeat...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
The Medieval Ball (2.30 R4). Terry Jones (ex-Monty Python Chaucer enthusiast) begins a four-part series examining how the medieval world saw itself through its maps, with Hereford Cathedral’s Mappa...
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V-c departure angers staff
Staff at the University of Northumbria say their vice-chancellor has destabilised the institution by announcing that he will be leaving next year, following a clash with his board of governors....
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Peer finds way to modify man
Powerful techniques to create transgenic animals and humans and to isolate stem cells from their tissue have been patented by Lord Winston, the Labour peer and Imperial College scientist. The new...
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Hefce risks run-in over board
Funding chiefs risk the wrath of the government after last week's appointment of three white men to the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. By April 2003, women should form 45...
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Exit CVCP, enter Universities UK
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals relaunched itself this week as Universities UK as part of a corporate strategy to raise the profile of higher education. Several projects have been...
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Alexander delights v-cs by reducing top slicing
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has ordered the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to reduce its level of top slicing, delighting vice-chancellors....
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Bournemouth's Tillman takes Turner treasure
The Bournemouth Arts Institute this week celebrated Wolfgang Tillmans's success in winning the £20,000 Turner prize. Mr Tillmans studied photography at the institute between 1990 and 1992. The judges...
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OU launches postgrad research school
The Open University today launched a research school to provide training for its postgraduate students, postdoctoral and research staff. Project staff and financial management training will be...
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Commemorative chair for diabetes pioneer
A chair in diabetic medicine at Oxford University has been created to commemorate Robert Turner, a pioneering diabetes researcher who died suddenly in August last year.
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£20m Sunderland centre awaits go-ahead
The first stage of a £20 million centre of excellence at the University of Sunderland is expected to be given the go-ahead next month. The university has submitted plans to the city council for...
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OECD abolishes lethal animal toxicity test
Use of the much-criticised LD50 Draize oral toxicity test, which involves the death of laboratory animals, has been abolished by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD's...