Seeded first
There's nothing like an interesting visitor to ease the longueurs of the summer months, so there was a warm welcome from the Higher Education Funding Council for England information department when a...
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Baby girl brings hope to infertile
Staff at Aberdeen University's assisted reproduction unit are celebrating the safe arrival of the first Scottish baby conceived using a new infertility treatment. The little girl was born earlier...
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Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter
(Photograph) - Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter has been developed by the department of anaesthesia at the University of Manchester and Europa Scientific to treat patients...
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Nottingham leads way with doctors and nurses merger
Nottingham University's faculty of medicine and health sciences has taken on 1,800 new nursing students and more than Pounds 12 million of contracts after merging with the Mid-Trent College of...
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Transfer stuns Bodmer
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...
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Progressive bastions of learning city
The Lyceum is a posh restaurant in the heart of Liverpool. Under a classically domed ceiling, thick-walleted patrons sit at candle-lit tables, sip coffee on gentleman's club-style leather sofas, and...
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MPs clash on Barts merger
A private Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield College has moved a stage forward in the Commons despite a stormy Labour...
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Fair exchange
Mind you, the unwary might have concluded that the PSA had taken to including ratings of speakers in lieu of their institutions in the programme list issued for last week's annual conference at York...
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Funders ask about peer pressure
Welsh further education colleges are being consulted on whether they want peer evaluation to become a formal part of the quality assessment process, writes David Charter. In practice, the views of...
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Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife
(Photograph) - Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife team, molecular biologist Sir Kenneth Murray and molecular geneticist Noreen Murray, will receive a twin double honour this summer...
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Cryopreservation
(Photograph) - Frozen moment: Erica Benson, of the University of Abertay and Barbara Reed from the United States department of agriculture examine blackcurrant shoots being used to examine the...
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Getting chemistry right
The blueprint for a broadened chemistry PhD could be a trailblazer for the other sciences, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. At its annual chemical congress at Heriot-Watt University,...
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Crimebusting for Colombia
Colombia will need a collective change in values as well as its current programme of judicial reforms if its endemic violence - with a per capita murder rate almost ten times that of the United...