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Cash proposal to recruit teachers
Undergraduates would be paid up to £2,000 to train as teachers during their summer holidays under plans unveiled today. Other initiatives outlined in the green paper on secondary education include a plan to pay off student loans of graduates who enter specific teacher-training programmes.

Genome confirms Darwin
Sir John Sulston, former director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, which sequenced a third of the human genome, said the the project proved Charles Darwin’s theories on the unity of life. “It is great to be getting the molecular correlates of what Darwin hypothesised 150 years ago,” he said.

University innovators win funding
Miniature quantum computers, protein structures that produce music and golf clubs that improve accuracy are three university-based projects to receive funding in the latest  awards from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Some 34 projects will share £1.9 million.

Dundee elects comedian rector
Comedian and broadcaster Fred MacAulay has been elected rector of Dundee University by a massive majority of students. Mr MacAulay is expected to attend his first university court meeting today, with his inauguration taking place later in the year.