Education a priority for NI executive
Sean Farren, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, training and employment, has flagged up further education as his priority in the resurrected power sharing executive. He...
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Post-18 skills training to be overhauled
Northern Ireland does well at keeping young people in education and training at 16 and 17, but the unemployment rate has more than doubled by the time they reach 20, says new research. Dr Farren said...
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Surrey denies problem
Surrey University's vice-chancellor has condemned an anonymous circular to staff alleging mismanagement and low staff morale. Patrick Dowling said that "anonymous letters of this kind do nothing" to...
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Joining the fast lane
Introducing our four-page survey of research in Germany, Jennie Brookman looks at how the country is making more effort to attract and retain young scientists Germany is among the world's top five...
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Funds, funds funds: who pays for research
Germany spent e42.43 billion (Pounds 26.5 billion) on research and development in 1997, accounting for 2. per cent of gross domestic product, according to the latest official figures. The business...
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Quick and easy pictures of health
A photodetector that picks up minute temperature changes could be a simple way to diagnose breast cancer Physicists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics in Freiburg have been...
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Why we treasure the mutants
Phenotype-driven mutagenesis has provided a new tool that will help discover the function of genes. Rudi Balling discusses the role of mutant mice in functional genomics This year marks the...
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Young minds turn to some old concerns
Scientists and designers are working to develop household products that will make life easier for the elderly New technology could provide many household appliances to help elderly people maintain...
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Teamwork brings gift of sight
Experts from a range of disciplines have achieved 'the impossible' - an artificial human eye Jennie Brookman reports from Dusseldorf An artificial human eye that promises to give blind people...
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Jakarta
Australian vice-chancellors signed an historic cooperation agreement with Indonesia's higher education authority last week. Besides joint research programmes, staff and student exchanges will be...
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France
University heads are known as president and elected by three councils. The board of directors votes on the budget and determines policy. Of its members, 40-45 per cent are teaching and research staff...
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Germany
Individual states are responsible for higher education. The legislation of each varies within the guidelines of the Federal Higher Education Framework. University heads are called rector or president...
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In the news
It has been a roller-coaster couple of weeks for education secretary David Blunkett. He lost a High Court judgment on his plans to introduce performance-related pay for teachers and he was criticised...
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Don's Diary
Friday Rush to see press coverage of National Teaching Fellowships Scheme (NTFS). Is my picture in? Have they used my quotes? Begin to worry the recognition is going to my head. They say we award-...
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Glittering prizes
The British Academy has awarded ordinary fellowships to: Rosemary Ashton, University College London, English; Celia Britton, University of Aberdeen, French; John Broome, University of St Andrews,...