Heartening news for angina women
Glasgow University researchers who last week revealed dramatic results in the treatment of heart disease are now turning their attention to a hitherto neglected group - women. The West of Scotland...
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Having a ball
(Photograph) - Having a ball: Eight members of the Professional Footballers Association have graduated from University College Salford's PFA-sponsored part-time BSc in physiotherapy, specially...
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A level gold standard to tumble
Custodians of education's most sacred cow, the A level, have been mobilised to defend the "gold standard" against what they see as its deadliest rival - the overarching post-school qualification....
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Lakes pins hope on the Internet
One of the country's most remote regions is to plug in to computer communications to make higher education accessible to all. Cumbria County Council is setting up a steering group to make Workington...
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Ulster students in cash crisis
Almost one third of students in Northern Ireland are taking jobs partly to avoid the trap of student loans, a survey claims. Although students in the province are more likely to receive full...
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FE inspectors take lessons from US
British inspectors visiting United States community colleges have found that parity of esteem between academic and vocational education is not an issue there. In contrast with Europe and particularly...
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A bounce a day keeps brittle bones away
A daily routine of 50 jumps could help save women from osteoporosis, according to a Nottingham University researcher. Joan Bassey, senior lecturer in physiology in Nottingham's medical school, warns...
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Search for superhighway code
The potential social consequences of the information superhighway are to be investigated by researchers at Oxford University. The study, backed by a Pounds 161,340 grant from the Economic and Social...
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Amherst verbal code starts war of words
A draft "harassment policy" at the biggest college campus in New England has resurrected the debate about university speech codes. It aims to punish "verbal or physical conduct" that "...
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Fears of Belarus academic ban
Belarusian experts fear a top-level but unpublished directive may halt visits to the country's universities by overseas academics. Evidence of the ban came from a Roman Catholic priest who is...
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Free degrees, no dogma
A Communist victory in next month's Russian general elections would not herald a return to ideological education in its universities and schools, party leader Gennady Andreivich Zyuganov has pledged...
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Murder taints 'tolerant' campus
The bullets which pierced the body of 73-year-old Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin also punctured many national illusions of tolerance and cooperation between the mainstreams of secular and...
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Wrong again
The Government is getting the student loans scheme wrong again. Incredible though it may seem, the advice of the few people who were asked has been ignored. The advice of the many who will be...
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An unnecessary control
The Government crackdown on immigration will have serious effects on higher education, says Julian Gravatt. Press reports about the Queen's Speech said that there are two education Bills for 1995/96...