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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Boston A feared dramatic decline in the number of Asians who study in the United States has been forestalled by programmes designed to provide financial assistance to previously ineligible...
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Sky schooling
Training andeducation will be made available to areas of the world with poor communications through a low-cost interactive satellite system developed with European Union funding. The Genesis project...
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Sources for research funds
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) www.esrc.ac.uk...
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Institutions line up to provide doctors
The government is to consider 21 bids to provide this year's extra 1,000 medical students from universities with existing medical schools and those keen to form them. A decision is expected in May.
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City College, Manchester
* In last week's analysis of TQAs we said that the drama, dance and cinematics department at City College, Manchester, would have failed under the tighter QAA procedures brought in last autumn. This...
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Follow your MIT-y leader
MIT is undoubtedly a leader in business plan competitions. A recent survey showed ten of the companies it has spawned now have a combined value of more than $500 million. Bill Gates scooped one of...
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Cutting edge
Forums where local people and experts talk about a green future can help change behaviour and improve policy-making Wednesday was a not untypical research day: global warming in the morning,...
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Countdown to riches
UK bioscientists have ten more days to come up with the beginnings of the business idea of the decade - and win Pounds 20,000 to boot. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and...
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Welsh and Scots join the board that wants to become a research council
Four countries have now pledged money for the AHRB, but it is not quite enough to become the organisation that Dearing had envisaged, says Olga Wojtas Academics in the arts and humanities are a step...
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Turning ideas into big bucks
Business plan contests with cash prizes are taking off as a way to tempt university researchers into a more entrepreneurial culture. Julia Hinde reports Commercialising university research and...
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Inequality in teaching pay
Julia Hinde pores over a THES/Royal Institution survey showing that male researchers are paid more to teach Male researchers appear to be paid on average 30 per cent more than women when it comes to...
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Where there's muck there's a doctorate
Peter Stenbro-Olsen is enjoying the sweet smell of success after being awarded the country's first doctorate in composting. According to the Dundee City Council composting officer, who began his part...
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Blair to market academia
The government is to launch a campaign to give British universities the edge in overseas markets worth billions of pounds. Prime minister Tony Blair and education secretary David Blunkett are...
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NUS votes for Pakes to lead on
Andrew Pakes was decisively voted in for a second term as National Union of Students president this week, foiling predictions of a far left victory. Mr Pakes, a Labour student, beat Left Unity...