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The University of the Wi****ersrand has launched a fellowship fund to halt the country's brain drain. The Friedland Fellowship will encourage scientists to come to South Africa to do socially...
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Public value work of scientists
Most members of the public think scientists and engineers make a valuable contribution to society, according to an Office of Science and Technology/Wellcome Trust survey into public attitudes to...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES: Baroness Blackstone announced a review of university careers services I have recently retired after 30 years as a university careers adviser and feel that the Dearing report...
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Turnstile to tinier future
Two Cambridge physicists have created a counter that acts as a turnstile for single electrons. The delicate technology could be used in a host of electronics applications such as multi-level memory...
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Commons inquiry to evaluate New Deal
The Commons employment sub-committee will evaluate the success of the New Deal for unemployed young people by conducting a short inquiry. It will aim to address how successful the scheme has been in...
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Millions go down drain in audit fiasco
Universities are overburdened with red tape that wastes millions of pounds and creates immense stress among staff, a funding council report reveals. The report, to be published this month for the...
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Exam scores to reflect effects of bomb hoaxes
Two hoax bomb scares that disrupted a group of final exam students have been taken into account in their assessments. The first bomb scare at the examination centre of the Chartered Institute of...
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Gates gives UK schools $40m for malaria fight
Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine is to work with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a $40 million anti-malaria programme funded entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates...
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Balloonatic
Leanne Kovacs, a media studies student at Wolverhampton College, recently spent three weeks on work placement at the Virgin Airship and Balloon Company in Telford. Photograph by JAMIE JONES
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NHS challenge set to tax universities
The National Health Service Plan, published last week, proposes the biggest expansion in medical education in a generation. Claire Sanders looks at the implications for institutions Expanding the...
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World watch
Two-thirds of almost 1 million students who passed Turkey's university entrance examination will not get a place because of a lack of space. The record number of disappointed students are being...
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Sherlock to lead Adult Learning Inspectorate
(Photograph) - David Sherlock (pictured) was this week appointed chief executive of the new Adult Learning Inspectorate. The inspectorate, which will start operation on April 1 2001, will bring...
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Wye College moves into Imperial ranks
Wye College in Kent, which is known for its research-led teaching in the biological, environmental and agricultural sciences, merged with Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in London...
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Ethics at risk in new economy, dean warns
Unbridled pursuit of the knowledge economy can clash with the values of scholarship that should underpin universities, Bart McGettrick, dean of the University of Glasgow's faculty of education, has...
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Graduate teacher plan starts with 400 places
The Teacher Training Agency has announced the allocation of the first 400 places on the new-style graduate teacher programme, in which teachers are trained in schools. The scheme provides a salary of...