Bristol answers tabloid attacks
Bristol University has defended one of its professors against tabloid accusations of taking organs from deceased babies without their families' consent. The university said the stories could damage...
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Disabled lose fight to study medicine
The Court of Appeal has thrown out a landmark case on the rights of disabled people to study and practise medicine. Paraplegic Heidi Cox had won the right to sue the General Medical Council for...
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Ethics of Biobank challenged by group
The decision to fund the UK Biobank - the world's largest study of the interaction of genes, environment and health - has been dismissed as premature by a research pressure group. The Wellcome Trust...
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Osaka
Japan's Osaka University is to form an information exchange alliance with 16 Japanese companies, including Sony and Matsu****a, for future joint developments in bio-IT.
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Beijing
Tsinghua University has recruited 28 foreign academics as visiting professors from institutions that include Harvard University.
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Washington DC
Nearly half of US university students expect to receive no job offers while 20 per cent anticipate only one, according to a survey by job-search company Monster.com.
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Bichard: 'time to worship creativity'
The government worships the "twin towers of science and technology" and is neglecting the creative arts in the economy of the future, according to a former Whitehall education official. Michael...
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Lib Dems look to Scots system for student funding inspiration
The Liberal Democrats may base part of their revised national higher education policy on the Scottish student funding solution. Baroness Sharp, the party's education spokeswoman in the House of Lords...
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It's official: 'too much red tape'
Matti Alderson could become an unlikely hero for lecturers who fear that red tape is damaging their ability to teach and research. As chairwoman of the Cabinet Office task force looking at the...
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Creative masters launched
Huddersfield University has launched what is claimed to be the world's first "creative imaging" masters course. The programme, which is being run in conjunction with the brand communications firm...
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UK e-science centre opens
Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged that investment in science would be a priority of the public spending review when he opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) based at Edinburgh University. Mr...
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What keeps all of Britain's colours from the screens?
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Twelve years after the rap group...
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Racism is not bred in a brain
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Stripped of its layers of ham,...
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Exposing the nation-state's true colours
As Britons express shock over the success of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France's presidential election, Adrian Favell argues that we should examine our own xenophobic tendencies. Republicans versus...
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The last of a new breed?
Biologists classify the living world hierarchically into phyla, classes, orders, families, genera and species. Within the phylum of vertebrates, for instance, mammals constitute a class; carnivores...