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how social class affects access to higher education and what institutions are doing to encourage less well-off students is the focus of a nationwide research project. A team from the European Access...
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Highlands cast net
Up to 40,000 adults could have a link with the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands each year, according to the Highland Council. But it warns that the project must reduce its dependence...
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Hope for Newbattle
Scotland's sole adult residential college, Newbattle Abbey, has won a hearing from Scottish education minister Brian Wilson on the restoration of its grant, axed in 1989. The college funds about 20...
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New Deal partners
Further education colleges are forging ahead with public-private partnerships under the government's New Deal for the unemployed. Rosemary Thew, New Deal project manager at the Department for...
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College target fears
The Association of Colleges has warned employment ministers that the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme could jeopardise colleges' ability to meet student number targets. John Brennan, AoC director of...
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Part-time working 'can harm studies'
STUDENTS' academic work may suffer if their part-time jobs take up more than ten hours a week, Paisley University research suggests. Jim McKechnie, senior lecturer in psychology, has surveyed more...
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Sociology's job spin-off
NAPIER University students may soon earn more than a pittance for menial part-time work - they may also be able to earn academic credit. Iain Marshall, senior lecturer in Napier's department of...
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E.coli danger lurks in vacuum-packed food
Some vacuum-packed chilled foods may not be as safe to eat as manufacturers and consumers think, researchers have warned. The treatment used to kill E.coli 0157 bacteria is less effective than food...
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Nurses lose ideals
Student nurses become "less idealistic and more realistic" as they progress through their training, but they still perceive listening to patients as the most important part of their caring function,...
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Probe for minefields
Engineers at Warwick University are looking at ways to help deal with the international problem of clearing anti-personnel land-mines. The work, funded by charities and the Engineering and Physical...
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Lice and statistics
Scientists at Strathclyde University are working on ways to tackle the growing problem of sea lice on fish farms without damaging the delicate ecological balance in Scottish sea lochs. Sea lice cut...
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Pravastin put to test
Investigators from Glasgow University, Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Cork and Leiden Universities are starting the first study of the effects of pravastin, a medication widely prescribed to prevent...
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People key to profits
Firms that concentrate too much on technology at the expense of people lose out, according to research from the London School of Economics. The study, for the Institute of Personnel and Development,...
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Resistance held in animal genes
A new class of antibiotic resistance gene has been discovered by scientists in Scotland. It may help to explain why some bacteria are immune to medicines despite containing none of the previously...
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Sports courses hit by eating illnesses
Students on sports-related courses are more likely to suffer from eating disorders than other students and the population at large despite learning about nutrition as part of their degrees. Diane...