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The idea that body fat is good for you is so unfashionable these days that it is hard to believe it could be true. As a result precious little research has been done to establish the facts. Until now...
The idea that body fat is good for you is so unfashionable these days that it is hard to believe it could be true. As a result precious little research has been done to establish the facts. Until now...
An inscribed tablet found by Southampton and Exeter University archaeologists has been described as the most significant Roman inscription ever discovered in the eastern desert of Egypt. The tablet,...
Shadow education spokesman David Blunkett launched Swansea University's 75th anniversary celebrations by opening the university's Recording Centre for the Blind. The centre, the first such to cater...
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council have set up an 11-member review group to advise on the future development of SHEFC's quality...
Students in distress will have immediate access to the Samaritans by remembering the new number - 0345 909090 - which was launched earlier this month. The number is designed to avoid delays by...
New generations of Mongolian economists are to be given the chance to study the economic model that they believe is most suitable for their country, with the help of advisers from the University of...
Sheffield University has joined forces with the Malaysian government in a Pounds 20 million project to set up a new medical school in Malaysia to alleviate a serious shortage of doctors. John Padley...
A symbol of hope is to be created in a joint venture by the University of Ulster and Fermanagh district council near the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland troubles....
Christopher Robson, chairman of the London Mathematical Society's education committee, says he is disappointed by the School Curriculum Assessment Authority's reaction to a society report which says...
The concept of a change being as good as a rest gets a ringing endorsement from Graeme Davies, six weeks after his move from running the Higher Education Funding Council for England to become vice...
Despite growing up in care Anna Young is at university. She tells Claire Sanders how education has transformed her. Anna Young was abandoned by her mother aged just two weeks. At 18 months she was...
Eruptions of gas from the sun, which disrupt power lines and navigation systems if they reach the earth, will be investigated by a solar observatory due for launch next Thursday. The joint European...
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a major partner in a consortium chosen by the Department of Trade and Industry as the preferred buyer for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. Tom Inch,...
British academics are to be asked to give money to help halt Bosnia's brain-drain. The appeal is the latest initiative of Academic Lifeline for Bosnia, set up by the World University Service, the two...
Here's hoping the British space budget stretches to financing proper fruit cakes with lots of alcohol in them rather than mean sponge cakes in rusty tins. Otherwise the cake baked to celebrate the...