Contest nurses scientist tycoons
Teams from 25 universities have entered a competition to develop the entrepreneurial spirit of young scientists. The competition is part of an initiative led by the Biotechnology and Biological...
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UCL unit to tackle big killers
University College London is creating a Pounds 10 million biomedical research centre to look into ways of treating and preventing heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Funding for the centre is being...
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Institutes' research pays
Government-funded research institutes provide equivalent, if not better, value for money than universities, according to the chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council. John Krebs...
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Pesticide advice plea
DISTINGUISHED academics advising the Government on the licensing and use of pesticides may not be providing impartial advice, the House of Lords has been told. In a debate on organo-phosphates, the...
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Pill giants look to new patients
The emerging markets of China, India and Brazil will play a crucial role in setting the agenda for pharmaceutical firms worldwide, according to Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of Glaxo...
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Conflict looms over EU mobility
The Government is set to become embroiled in further tough debates over European mobility in education, training and research. At last week's council of education ministers in Luxembourg, a European...
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Dreaming spires face minaret eclipse
CRITICS of a multi-million pound building planned for the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies want it to find a new site - perhaps facing the controversial new business school next to Oxford station....
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Allegre to slim the mammoth
Claude Allegre, France's new education minister, plans to "slim down the mammoth" of state education by introducing administrative reforms which would decentralise management of the system. But he...
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Paris Nord University and the Galile Institute
* The Paris Nord University and the Galile Institute have decided to present the theses of two students killed in a bomb attack on a Paris underground train last December. The two Moroccans had been...
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College paintings were stolen 'to order'
Polish police are hunting thieves who stole eight portraits from Wroclaw University's famous baroque Leopoldine Hall, writes Vera Rich. The police believe the robbery was commissioned by a collector...
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Mean test hits poor applicants
Increasing numbers of poorer young Australians are likely to be deterred from going on to university because of increased fees and a federal government decision to tighten eligibility requirements...
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Job victory for disabled woman
A disabled woman has won her fight to become a temporary lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. A staff selection board which had cast doubt on her ability to cope with teaching has now...
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One million weapons on US campuses
In a society prone to violent crime, United States colleges are still islands of sanity, a recent study shows. College students report carrying weapons at a much lower rate than in schools and across...
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Natural canopy on the top of the globe
THE Lapland town of Rovaniemi is famed for its Father Christmas industry which flies thousands of tourists every year over the Arctic circle, and into the recently constructed timber village where...
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Jail break for the bent on bizniz
RUSSIAN prisons are being swamped with young offenders. Tempted into crime by a combination of poverty and a police force which cannot cope, many of them are convicted while their contemporaries are...