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University of Strathclyde. Charities Dr I. Uchegbu, Pounds 49,736 from Wellcome Trust (the development of novel multi-component non-ionic surfactant vesicles (niosomes) for the controlled delivery of...
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Rise and rise of the middle classes
HIGHER education across Europe continues to be dominated by the middle classes, despite general growth in student numbers, a study has found. Low levels of participation in higher education among...
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Eurocrats bicker over shape of Framework5
THE European Parliament is taking legal advice on whether it can force the European Commission to withdraw its modified plans for science research. If the advice, due at the end of this week, says...
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Overseas act cleansed
SWANSEA Institute is to axe all its courses in Malaysia and Indonesia in a move to clean up its overseas operations. The academic board has called for the withdrawal of 18 franchised courses...
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Oxford told to streamline
The North report on Oxford University recommends that it could learn from Cambridge. Harriet Swain and Phil Baty contrast Oxford with its great rival It has taken nearly four years and has been...
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Commercial funds cause fear for integrity
Academic autonomy at Oxbridge is being threatened by the institutions' growing reliance on external and commercial funding, academics have warned. This week, the Campaign for Academic Freedom and...
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Cambridge defies QAA's plans
Cambridge University is taking a stand against the Quality Assurance Agency's plans for a new quality assurance regime. It is now the only institution refusing to take part in a fresh round of audits...
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Thatcher endowment row
Cambridge University looks set to accept a Pounds 2 million endowment from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for a new professorship in "enterprise studies" - but not without a row. The...
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Case of the unhappy nursery nursing drop-out
Welfare to what? Phil Baty on what the government's New Deal has to offer to colleges and students. JANE is the first student to enrol at Gateshead College under the New Deal education pathway. She...
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Colleges 'have nothing to fear'
Welfare to what? Phil Baty on what the government's New Deal has to offer to colleges and students. COLLEGES' fears for their future role in the New Deal are misplaced, Andrew Smith, the employment...
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Putting children at centre of clubs
The government's Pounds 300 million drive to expand after-school child care could alienate children because the policy focuses on parents, researchers have warned. Researchers at Brunel University's...
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Kids as active agents
THE PLACE of children in late 20th-century society seems dangerously confused. We are told to treat them as individuals capable of autonomous action, but at the same time there are compelling...
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Robin Hood reversed
CORRUPTION in developing countries is under the scrutiny of a Staffordshire University political researcher who hopes to help aid agencies and governments fight the menace. Stephen Riley is examining...
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Dementia decisions
THE extent to which people with learning difficulties who suffer from dementia can make decisions about their lives is the subject of a Stirling University study. Researchers will interview 20 people...
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House owner inequity
YOUNG people who move to London in the search for upward mobility significantly reduce their prospects of becoming home owners, according to research for the Economic and Social Research Council....