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Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
In Rashdall's classic study The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages we read: "Paris and Bologna are the archetypal - it might almost be said the only original universities: Paris supplied the...
Imagine a red car and a yellow car hitting each other head-on at high speed. Both cars are wrecked and debris is strewn across a wide area. But what is this? The red car, despite all the evidence...
A student on Glasgow Caledonian University Company's troubled counselling course is poised to sue after being excluded from its final stages. Two students on the certificate course, Winifred Scott...
A House of Lords probe into university scientists' careers has concluded that contract research staff should have the same status and rights as established colleagues of equivalent rank. The plight...
The Scottish Office this week announced upgraded entry requirements for teacher education courses from the academic year 2000/01. Entrants to primary teacher education courses will need a standard...
The horrors of abduction, torture and murder by governments are coming under scrutiny at a Glasgow University conference today. The university's department of forensic medicine and science is hosting...
More than 250 part-time lecturers have won a total Pounds 100,000 for unfair dismissal or redundancy compensation since the House of Lords ruled last year that they had the right to pursue such...
The latest British Medical Association survey of medical students' finances reveals record debt levels, with an average debt of Pounds 3,696, almost 30 per cent higher than last year. The average...
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Two leading writers from the soap world are to join university lecturers to teach up-and-coming scriptwriters some tricks of the trade. EastEnders writer Chris Reason and Emmerdale's Gary Brown will...
(Photograph) - Train of thought: The newly formed Institute of Railway Studies at York has taken on two research students. Professor of railway studies, Colin Divall (centre), has offered...
Research into ageing is uncoordinated, underfunded and sometimes duplicated, say the proponents of a scheme to set up a national centre for ageing research. The solution is to start a network to...
(Photograph) - Industrial revolution: Apprenticeships are heading for a renaissance thanks to a Pounds 1.29 billion Government initiative to bring 150,000 youngsters back into industry by the end of...
Hundreds of school and college leavers expecting to gain new vocational A levels have had their hopes of a place in higher education dashed by red tape. Admissions chiefs said this week they were "...