Small fantasies
Richard Page, minister for small businesses at the Department of Trade and Industry, this week announced a competition to encourage business awareness among biological science students. The...
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New cancer centre
The Imperial Cancer Research Fund has joined forces with Dundee University and the Dundee Teaching Hospitals' NHS Trust to set up a centre of excellence in cancer treatment. A chair in medical...
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Who clears up
"Nowhere in the world is there a system for dealing with major accidents after the second day," says Gary Coleman, director of a new World Health Organisation clearing house for major chemical...
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Conviction prompts review
Safety procedures are under review at the University of Wales, Swansea, following the conviction of Paul Hickson, the university's former assistant director of physical education, for rape and...
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Food science jobs retained in Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Research Consortium has won a partial victory in its battle against the loss of the Torry Food Science Laboratory, due to be relocated to York as part of the Ministry of Agriculture's...
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Tories go for fee vouchers
Vouchers would be issued to school-leavers to pay flat-rate tuition fees in higher education under radical proposals drawn up by the Conservatives, Fee bands would be axed and local authorities...
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Labour ducks Pounds 10bn bill
"New, young" Labour swept over "old" Labour on further and higher education policies at its party conference in Brighton this week. Battle was joined on the conference floor over a composite motion...
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Gathering of quality chiefs
The first steps towards forming a single quality body, ordered last month by Education and Employment secretary Gillian Shephard, were taken this week as the major players met in London. The Quality...
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Governor cuts row
University of Liverpool plans to halve the size of its governing body are ill- judged and may have repercussions on other institutions, according to university teachers. Liverpool's plans, endorsed...
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CVCP hits at research cash shift
A Government decision to allow "all competent suppliers" to bid for research council funds now spent in universities has been criticised by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals as...
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A Slice Of Success
(Photograph) - Gillian Shephard this week launched the Further Education Development Agency which replaces the discarded the Further Education Unit and the Staff College. She called FEDA's three year...
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Man who turned the lights on
Complexity theory guru or great British eccentric? Lucy Hodges meets Stuart Kauffman who simulates the origins of life on a computer As a Marshall scholar at Oxford in the early 1960s, Stuart...
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Fable for High Table
Political philosopher Steven Lukes has chosen an obscure literary form to defend human rights. He tells Simon Targett why. It is 200 years since the French aristocrat Condorcet wrote the...
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The Earth as lab
Scientists are increasingly confident that they can pinpoint the culprits of global warming, says Stephen Schneider Awareness that pollution can degrade our environment is hardly new. That was...
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Anything but simple
Peter Coveney says there is a growing breed of scientists using computers to formulate the universal features of"complexity" defined as the behaviour of large collections of single units with the...