Medical merger
A Pounds 52 MILLION medical research and teaching centre is to be created by University College London under a private finance deal. The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research will house the...
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Healthy market
THIS week's NHS white paper abolishing the internal market in the health service and proposing a reduction in the number of health authorities and trusts has been welcomed by medical educators....
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Research rivals
UNIVERSITIES could face greater competition for grants if the research councils paid full overheads, Richard Brook, chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, told the...
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Campus bid for business
UNIVERSITIES could take on responsibility for some of the basic research carried out in large firms, generating a new marketplace for academics, says Daniel McCaughan, chief scientist at Nortel, the...
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Science tops EU bill
FROM January Britain takes over the presidency of the European Union. One of the urgent issues to be addressed is the future of Europe's scientific research programme - known as the fifth Framework (...
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Vets not contributing to animal health research
UNDERGRADUATE veterinary courses are not preparing students for research. A report by the committee of inquiry into veterinary research says too few graduate vets go into research and the profession...
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Shell invests in leadership
OIL GIANT Shell is providing Pounds 10 million for students from developing countries to study for a masters degree at six top universities. Launched as part of its centenary celebrations, the scheme...
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Lord Davies to take FEFC chair
Bryan Davies, the former Labour spokesman on further and higher education, is to be the next chair of the Further Education Funding Council. On January 1, he will succeed Bob Gunn in the two days a...
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Credits system still hung up on hurdles
Substantial obstacles remain to the creation of a national credit accumulation system as advocated by Dearing and the Fryer lifelong learning advisory group, a report has said. Because of...
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RDA plans threaten autonomy
Government plans for regional development agencies could threaten universities' and colleges' autonomy, critics have said. Last week's publication of the white paper Building Partnerships for...
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Regional development agencies should have powers to influence further and higher education provision
The regional development agencies should have clear powers to influence further and higher education provision, members of the House of Commons Employment Sub-Committee said this week. Taking oral...
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Welsh college students improve A-levels results
The A-level performance of Welsh college students improved perceptibly last year but still trails its school counterpart. The school and college information booklets for 1997, issued this week by the...
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Still a case of 'neither fish nor fowl'
Photography. The way we conceptualise pictures, the media's use of disturbing images, and surreal selling THE CURIOSITY and puzzlement that greeted the arrival of photography is being examined as...
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The surreal way of subconscious selling
Photography. The way we conceptualise pictures, the media's use of disturbing images, and surreal selling WESTERN society has plundered the once anti-establishment surrealist ideology to produce...
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Drop-out rates mar expansion success
Wastage and female enrolment are the main trends in the latest OECD education reports, says Mary Boland Britain has one of the lowest student drop-out rates among members of the Organisation for...