Retraining money to benefit British workers
* British workers at risk of redundancy may benefit from a Pounds 160 million European investment to help them retrain. Employment minister Andrew Smith revealed this week that Britain is well on the...
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Biotech wizard warns against City sharks
Biotechnology entrepreneur Chris Evans has warned that a fizzling out of the City's enthusiasm for science-based companies could slash the value of established biotechnology companies and new spin-...
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Innovative firms grow at a faster rate than non-innovators
* A survey by the Office for National Statistics has found that innovative firms grow at a faster rate than non-innovators. Large companies are also three times as likely to be innovators as small...
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Contest for venture capital funds heats up
The first round of the new university challenge fund has attracted 45 entries to date, science minister Lord Sainsbury told a Royal Society conference this week, writes Julia Hinde. He said that more...
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Scientists get richer pickings
The Medical Research Council is the big winner in the science budgets for the next three years as the government ploughs more funds into genome research. The increase in funding for the MRC, which...
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Cancer unit at Cambridge opens in 2001
Part of the Medical Research Council's new money will go to establishing a new cancer unit in Cambridge. The unit, to be run jointly by the MRC and the Cancer Research Campaign, aims to bridge the...
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Computer brain unit opens
A major research centre on the brain opened at University College London, this week. It will perform highly theoretical research. The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, which will employ 100...
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Dispute leaves staff penniless
More than 30 nurse tutors formerly based at the University of Portsmouth are without salaries or redundancy pay and are unlikely to get either before Christmas because of a dispute between the...
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Golden hellos to lure recruits to teaching
Graduates laid off from jobs in industry are being offered the chance to retrain as maths and science teachers as part of the government's Pounds 130 million bid to tackle the slump in teaching...
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Committee starts work on extra medic places
The group responsible for allocating 1,000 additional medical school places met for the first time this week to consider criteria for awarding the new places. The joint Department of Health/Higher...
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Lawyers add up
(Photograph) - Gregor Rolfe (left), Alison Bissett, David Boyd and Mala Sawhney are among the first entrants to two law courses launched by Dundee University for "millennium careers". Dundee, which...
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Natfhe rattles sabres
Strikes against proposals to increase further education teaching hours could hit colleges early next year and undermine the government's lifelong learning plans, the country's biggest lecturing union...
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College drop-outs blame institutions
"The course was totally different to the explanation in the prospectus" - former business studies student. As the debate over student drop-out rates intensifies in the run-up to the publication of...
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Natfhe angered over Hefce diploma plan
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds should be encouraged to do degrees as well as diplomas according to university and college lecturers' union Natfhe in its response to proposals made by the...
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Government revises post-16 education cost report
Objections by training and enterprise councils have forced the government to revise a report showing that further education colleges are the cheapest means of delivering post-16 education. The TEC...