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Scotland is building the academic and research network that will help make policy. Olga Wojtas reports "This is an exciting time to be a researcher in Scotland," says Joyce Tait of Edinburgh...
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Family friend opens doors
Improving our understanding of issues affecting families and children is the aim of a joint research centre just opened by Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine. The...
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New meningitis centre
Queen's University Belfast has set up a centre for meningitis research which aims to help early detection of the life-threatening disease and develop new drug therapies. The new centre, a...
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Study shows parents and teachers must talk
Requests from a school for parents to attend a meeting with the teacher must be the nearest a teenager gets to a harbinger of doom. So the news that researchers have recommended that such meetings...
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Flawed targets damage access
Universities will be encouraged to revert to traditional recruitment policies by government-backed performance indicators to be introduced from next year, economics experts warned this week....
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Indicators give mixed signals
Universities that fail to attract students from under-represented groups could be let off the hook by new performance indicators, college heads fear. Each institution will be given an absolute rating...
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Degree is a licence to earn
Graduates will earn 61 per cent more in a lifetime than non-graduates, says the Higher Education Careers Service Unit. It found that the average graduate salary for all ages is Pounds ,198 against...
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Workers in small firms granted fee waiver
Tuition fees are being waived for workers in small and medium-sized businesses who want to study part-time for higher education qualifications. The government will put Pounds 5 million extra into its...
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Overseas students may get more time to apply
International students will get more time to apply for university places under plans being developed by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. "The United Kingdom could be deterring...
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The Pounds 5bn super agency
This week David Blunkett unveiled ministers' plans for a new post-16 education and training system. THES reporters analyse the details. The 80-page Learning to Succeed white paper sets out a...
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Fryer joins UfI as executive director
Bob Fryer (pictured), who advised the government on lifelong learning, has been appointed an executive director of the University for Industry. Professor Fryer, who is assistant vice-chancellor of...
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Industry spend on R&D is faltering, says SBS
British industry is not investing in the research and development needed to ensure the United Kingdom's economic success, according to the pressure group Save British Science. There is only one UK...
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Crop researchers face the chop from BBSRC
Up to 200 researchers at the Institute of Arable Crops Research laboratories in Long Ashton could lose their jobs under a restructuring plan. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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Chemical people given lifelong learning boost
The Chemical Industries Association claims to be the first trade association to have launched a sector-wide lifelong learning scheme. The CIA's "competitiveness through people" programme features...
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Foster withdraws from LibDem race
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Don Foster has quit the party's leadership race after securing assurances from front-runner Charles Kennedy that he would consider collaboraton with the Labour...