New Deal criticised for poor guidance
College chiefs this week called for better educational advice for unemployed young people after MPs found serious problems with the government's New Deal scheme. The Association of Colleges said that...
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Genome aids cell research
One in three people will get cancer. Finding a cure for the disease is a long-standing goal, writes Alison Goddard. Researchers have now moved another step closer by identifying one more factor that...
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Conference findings
Chemistry of being explored They look like ludicrous surrealist art, all spirals, blobs and streamers. Yet within the curious and wildly varying structures of proteins lie the workings of life. At...
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Microsoft expands
Microsoft Research recently announced the acceleration of plans to build a new laboratory in West Cambridge. Work began on the new building on Tuesday. Plans for the project were on show at the M?...
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Executive backs UHI
Scottish Executive minister Alasdair Morrison has told the Scottish Parliament he has "absolute confidence" in an inquiry into alleged complaints about mismanagement of the University of the...
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Wanted: joint effort on skills
The Further Education Funding Council and its successor next year, the Learning and Skills Council, must work closely with other agencies to help advance the skills agenda, an FEFC working group has...
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Weighting the justice scales
With elitism in top medical schools a hot political issue, Claire Sanders finds that the discrimination poor and ethnic- minority law applicants face is, if anything, getting worse Twenty young...
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Don's Diary
Friday Attend Granta launch of Australia: The New World. Packed audience of celebrity Australians and writers. Disturbed to find that our "new world" does not contain indigenous writers. Worse, some...
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A knock-out cancer hope
Researchers have created transgenic mice that have altered susceptibilities to developing cancer by knocking out a single gene. The research in DNA structures called telomeres raises the prospect of...
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Middlesex in the clear
Funding council investigators have concluded their examination of alleged mismanagement at Middlesex University, reporting that they are "satisfied" with the university's assurances that "...
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Survey uncovers low morale at Keele
Almost three-quarters of staff polled at Keele University are concerned about the university's future and more than 80 per cent blame the management team. A survey of 226 lecturers and other staff by...
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Glittering prizes
New royal medals, awarded to fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for outstanding scholarship, have gone to: Sir Kenneth Murray for his work developing a vaccine for hepatitis B; Peter Higgs,...
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On the move
Sir Brian Follett, vice-chancellor of Warwick University, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and David Eastwood, pro vice-chancellor and chair of...
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Me, me, me
Satirical science magazine Annals of Improbable Research has asked readers whose DNA they believe Celera Genomics sequenced to produce a working draft of the human genome. Craig Venter, Celera...
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Poetry in motions
A debate on the National Health Service, which followed allegations of ministerial in-fighting, has inspired Mary Scanlon, Conservative spokesperson on health in the Scottish Parliament. The former...