Beijing nurtures brains for 21st century
Beijing University has launched a programme to nurture a body of highly-skilled teachers and researchers for the next century. The "middle-aged academic elite programme" will involve selecting 200...
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Clinton puts faith in study
Higher education is threatening to become an issue in the next United States presidential election. Democrat Bill Clinton hopes this tactic will mark him out from his Republican opponent. Mr Clinton...
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Gospel according to Newt
Every Saturday Newt Gingrich, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, steps up to the podium at a small private college in rural Georgia to teach his course "Renewing American...
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Russian wants free speech
A dissident Russian scientist, who spent two years in prison after revealing his country's production of chemical weapons, plans to set up an organisation for Russian scientists to campaign for...
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Professor taps into water wastage
A Coventry University professor has designed an environmentally friendly system for tapping rainwater and recycling domestic water supplies which could cut average water bills by a third. Chris Pratt...
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Bobbies join pollution fight
Environment experts in universities have joined forces with authorities in London to help reduce pollution and health risks associated with road traffic in the City, writes Kam Patel. The three-year...
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Scoring against the bookies
A pair of football-crazy researchers have created a computer code which seems to beat the bookies at their own game. Research associate Mark Dixon and postgraduate student Michael Robinson have...
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Funding obstacle to fusion
United States fusion research may be hitting serious funding problems just as scientists' hopes are rising of producing commercially viable energy within 30 years, the American Association for the...
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Plants plus water is a powerful recipe
A limitless supply of energy from ordinary water could be a reality within five years. It would work by harnessing technology that appears, ready-made, in plant and algae cells. The method could also...
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Gene test will cut animal research
A test being developed by scientists at the University of Paisley promises to help pharmaceutical firms avoid using animals to try new drugs for the treatment of angina, toxic poisoning and other...
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Mechanical arm fits like glove
People whose arms are paralysed could have their lives transformed by a Pounds 900,000 European project to create a mechanical arm. Newcastle University, the University of Abertay Dundee (UAD) and...
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GPs help to train London doctors
London University medical schools are collaborating with GPs in a Pounds 20-million education programme to help improve undergraduate teaching. Moves for more community medical education are taking...
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Professor on the right track
Happy the academic who can say "If I'd written my own job description, I'd have come up with something like this". Colin Divall will still be subject to such blights on life as research selectivity,...
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Muslim course network collapses
West Midlands colleges have been advised to be extra cautious about course franchising after the collapse of a Birmingham community class network. The warning came from the Further Education Funding...
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Economy at risk from cash cuts
The threat to higher education quality from underfunding imperils the entire Scottish economy, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. COSHEP has made a submission to the...