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  1. Ukraine picks brains at UCAS

    Ukrainian academics are hoping to spark a wave of institutional reform in the former Soviet homeland following a fact-finding visit to London. A Ukrainian delegation, comprising two professors from...

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  2. Welsh institutions form strategic body

    A new organisation representing the interests of higher education in Wales has been launched. Heads of Higher Education in Wales comprises the vice chancellors, principals and chief executives of all...

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  3. Tutorial system on the way out

    Funding restrictions and the expansion in higher education participation have sounded the death knell for traditional one-on-one student tutoring, a new discussion paper warns. The Higher Education...

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  4. A design of our times

    This year the Royal College of Art celebrates its 100th anniversary. To mark the occasion it has mounted its largest ever showcalled "Design of the times" with more than 500 exhibits by students....

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  5. Warning against 'usurpers'

    The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is acting like a "usurper and dirigiste", a leading educationist has claimed. David Robertson, convener of Dundee University's court and former director...

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  6. Treasure housed

    (Photograph) - Treasure housed: Curator David Gill holds a statuette, called a shabti, next to a cast of the head of Queen Nefertiti - part of a fabulous collection which Swansea University hopes to...

  7. 'Magic cream' dispenses with jabs

    Painful and frightening injections could become a thing of the past thanks to an innovative "magic cream" created by researchers at Queen's University, Belfast. The international healthcare company...

  8. Swansea plans for jewels of the Nile

    A 3,000-year-old wooden coffin, built for a female musician from Thebes, lies in a dusty storage box, locked away in Swansea University. Alongside it is a limestone offering table, inscribed with...

  9. Spray to catch flu in nose

    A new nasal spray that could help conquer influenza is being developed at Cardiff University's Common Cold and Nasal Research Centre, writes Iola Smith. The spray prevents flu viruses from clinging...

  10. Yankee doodle dandy

    (Photograph) - Yankee doodle dandy: Students at the Washington and Lee University mock Republican convention cheer winning candidate 'Bob Dole' after he was elected as the nominee for president. The...

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  11. Male pill only matter of time

    The male contraceptive pill could be less than ten years away, claim scientists at Manchester University. Fred Wu, senior lecturer in medicine, said his research confirmed that sperm production could...