Wellcome intervenes in vivisection debate
The Wellcome Trust has taken the offensive in the public debate over animal experimentation by writing to the government to emphasise the need for continued vivisection. Michael Dexter (pictured),...
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Grants to Scottish HE to show healthy growth
Public grants to Scottish higher education will grow by a fifth over the next three years, it was revealed this week. The main state grant-in-aid to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council will...
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Universities are vital to Scottish Parliament
Scotland's universities and colleges will have a key role to play in helping the new Scottish Parliament make decisions about the future of the country, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education...
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LSE backs off big risefor postgrads
The London School of Economics has given final approval to a 3.5 per cent increase in postgraduate tuition fees. Last Friday, a sub-committee of the LSE's standing committee finally approved a...
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Teachers must have control, urges report
Radical reform of teaching must set rigorous standards but give the profession control over its own development, a report argues. The report, from think-tank Demos, says that reforms contained in the...
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Apprenticeships prove popular among young
Modern Apprenticeships are proving popular among young people from a wide variety of backgrounds, education secretary David Blunkett claimed as the results of two national surveys were published last...
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New Dealers opt for education and training
Nearly a third of people to benefit so far from the government's New Deal for the unemployed have chosen to go into full-time education and training. Of the 69,340 people who took up one of the four...
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Ex-Keele professor charged with fraud
Peter Rolfe, formerly head of Keele's hospital-based bioengineering and medical physics department, was this week charged jointly with former administrator Carol Benmakroha of conspiracy to defraud...
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Hard sell works for higher education
Hard-sell techniques used for commodities like soap powder and insurance are just as successful in attracting people to learning, a study has found. A project, run jointly by the Institute for Public...
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Imbalance threatens dual support
The dual support system of funding research could be threatened by a lack of balance between the two funding legs. Cash is being concentrated on new buildings and state-of-the-art equipment, but the...
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Sainsbury seeks public view on bioscience
A public consultation on the biosciences was launched this week by the science minister Lord Sainsbury. "This exercise will help us identify issues that interest people and the information they wish...
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Opposition to introduction of biotechnology
* The opposition of "green" movements to the widespread introduction of biotechnology could be "disastrous" for food safety and for the environment, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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Glorious mud
(Photograph) - Steve Rowland, professor of organic geochemistry at the University of Plymouth's department of environmental sciences, examines mud scooped from the river Tamar. Professor Rowland has...
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Paisley gets limekiln from equipment handout
More than 50 universities will benefit from 240 awards announced this week in the latest round of the Government's Joint Research Equipment Initiative, writes Julia Hinde. The annual awards started...
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Pounds 8 million boost announced for Genome Valley initiative
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has earmarked Pounds 8 million to speed up the commercial exploitation of genetic research. The money will go towards special equipment,...