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Government plans more city academies The government wants to open up a wider debate on improving education for 14 to 19-year-olds, according to a white paper published today. Schools Achieving...
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Fujian university to share £50m boost Xiamen University, in China's eastern Fujian province, is to be transformed into a “world-class institution” as a central part of a 600 million yuan (£...
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Labour university policy denounced as failure Labour policy for higher education has failed, according to a social scientist from the London School of Economics. At the British Association Festival...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Schools could afford up to 70,000 more teachers by 2004 if the government goes on expanding investment in education, the centre-right Institute for Public Policy Research said...
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Brazilian court stops computer deal The Brazilian education ministry’s purchase of 233,000 Windows-programmed personal computers from Microsoft has been blocked by local magistrates after a national...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph A drug derived from the saliva of leeches can reduce the risk of a repeat heart attack by a third, according to the results of a study. The first cup of coffee of the day may wake you...
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Germ wars warning sounded Future wars could be fought with microbes rather than bombs and missiles, Sir William Stewart, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, warned...
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EU funds PhD training at Bradford
The University of Bradford has won three EU awards for advanced training of researchers through the EU Marie Curie programme. The department of European studies and the department of archaeological...
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Retired dean will advise spin-offs
University of Bath David Davies, professor and former dean of science, who has also acted as chair of the arts committee and was co-founder and director of a research and consultancy company, will...
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Royal Society of Edinburgh awards research fellowships
The Royal Society of Edinburgh has awarded research fellowships to the following: Matthew Costen , chemistry at Heriot-Watt [BP Research]; SEELLLD Personal Research fellowships - Peter Andolfatto ,...
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Hackles rise over lab plan
The government has thrown its weight behind Cambridge University's plans for a multimillion-pound animal research laboratory, insisting the primate facility will ensure the United Kingdom becomes a...
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Disneyland with the Queen? I recall it well
False memories can tarnish justice and even distort history, write Elizabeth Loftus and Maryanne Garry. Memories are among our most precious possessions. They define who we are as individuals and...
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Rear top herds on diet of data
Databases could help raise better livestock, says John Woolliams. One of the issues that the traumas of BSE and foot-and-mouth disease have highlighted is the need for more and better information...
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Time for universal rules for a fair trial
We are near consensus on ethics for medical research worldwide, says Jimmy Whitworth. Nowhere is the need for health research more pressing than in developing countries, which suffer 90 per cent of...
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Writing a book not only helped one philosopher to believe he could die happy, it also helped him to answer a fundamental question about the nature of science. Fifteen years ago I decided to write a...