Lakeland to be wired for learning
(Photograph) - An electronic library spanning hundreds of miles could soon allow some of Britain's most cut-off communities to key into higher education, according to Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours...
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Pressing question
The nation's journalists are clearly in a ferment over Edinburgh University's support for the city's international science festival, and the role it sees for itself in supporting the local and...
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Italian job
Should the University of Poppleton's Dr Piercemuller lose his berth after the next research assessment and, forsaking the obvious refuge of the quality industry, choose instead to make his de facto...
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Durham okays Gemini systems
Two telescopes to be built in Hawaii and Chile have received a technical boost from Durham University scientists who have successfully tested the ambitious optical systems intended for them. The...
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Modern approach to crime 'medieval'
Crime should be seen and treated as a disease, according to the doctor who found the cure for tuberculosis 40 years ago. Sir John Crofton, who this week received the City of Edinburgh District...
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Wales' botanic idea takes root
Wales is likely to emulate England and Scotland in having a national botanic garden following support from Secretary of State John Redwood. Four areas have been shortlisted as potential sites for the...
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Pounds 5.3m centre is jewel in Midlands' crown
Ministers in search of a model for a working partnership between higher education and industry may be encouraged by recent developments in Birmingham's "jewellery quarter". Last week, the University...
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Alex Frost
(Photograph) - Face to face: Alex Frost, a third-year fine art student at Staffordshire University confronts one of the pieces at the university's exhibition of students' work entitled 'Hung, Drawn...
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Murphy to fight fee contributions
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, will campaign against fee contributions in the review of student funding backed by four-fifths of delegates to conference last week. But Mr...
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UK ignores dissociative disorders
The controversial illness, multiple personality disorder, goes undiagnosed and untreated in the United Kingdom despite being present in about one in 14 patients who use psychological and psychiatric...
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Swedish dental work could aid the disfigured
Pioneering dental research started in Sweden in the 1960s is now helping to rehabilitate patients who have lost limbs or part of their face. Per-Ingvar Branemark, head of the institute of applied...
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Report condemns chaos in Greenland
A dispute over the administration of the University of Greenland remains unresolved after a year. Greenland's government gave the university council until last October to propose ways of improving...
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Liberal professor to fight Berlusconi
Italian general elections, probable in the summer or autumn, will see a mild-mannered economics professor from Bologna pitted against the media-might of right-wing television tycoon Silvio Berlusconi...
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Liberation's front
As world leaders try to breathe fresh impetus into the stalled Palestinian peace process, the new state is striving for economic regeneration and a return to social and political stability. The Oslo...