From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph Bone marrow cells can provide a wide range of tissue to repair an ailing body, according to research at New York, Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities. The Times Charles Schweger,...
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Higher education appointments
University of Hull Steven Barwell , former fund-raiser for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed to the development and alumni relations office to develop the university's...
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Latest UK news
Report outlines e-learning future E-learning will change the role and skills of teachers, but not eliminate them, according to an Institute for Employment Studies report published this week. The...
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Latest international news
Eco urges vote against Berlusconi Semiologist Umberto Eco has appealed to Italians to vote against media magnate Silvio Berlusconi in Sunday's general elections. In the online magazine Golem...
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Latest UK news
Cornwall to get university A new university is to be built in Cornwall as part of a £54 million project to encourage youngsters to stay in the county. The Combined Universities of Cornwall in...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Invasion of habitats by alien species is destroying native ecosystems and inflicting economic damage running into billions of dollars a year, according to the Swiss-based World...
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Deadline: 19/07/2001
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Higher education appointments
University of Bournemouth Suzanne Clarke , former financial director at TMS Ltd., has been appointed school finance and resources manager for service industries. Jacqueline Molnar , former head of...
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Higher education awards
Arts Institute at Bournemouth Lianne Rivett has been awarded the A.M. Johns Charitable Trust Award for work in the Interactive Media Section. She will travel to Helsinki to conduct further research...
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For the record
£3.09bn for UK science base Total spending on the United Kingdom's science and engineering base within higher education institutions was £3.09 billion in 1998-99. Government money accounted for 69...
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Bichard bewails red tape
Education department chief Sir Michael Bichard admitted this week that education policy, such as the teaching quality assessment, had become overly bureaucratic and interventionist. Sir Michael,...
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College managers press for pay rise to carry on recruiting
College managers have called for a pay rise worth up to 13 per cent a year for the next three years. The bid from the Association for College Management comes as the lecturers' union Natfhe balloted...
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Scientists say hands are tied
Commercial and government pressure are harming academic science and eroding democracy, the organiser of a conference on academic freedom held at the British Academy London warned this week. David...
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Student growth targets in doubt
The number of first-year undergraduates fell this year and overall first-degree numbers are static, according to official figures. This is in spite of a 3 per cent rise in total enrolments, including...
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King's College wields anti-deficit axe on 250 staff
King's College London is planning to cut nearly 250 staff posts over the next three years. The cuts will come mainly from the schools of physical sciences and engineering, biomedical sciences and...