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Record numbers studying at UK institutions More students than ever are studying at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, according to data released today by the...
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Three share Nobel award for chemistry Two Americans and a Japanese scientist have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular research used in making medicines. William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori...
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The Guardian Many of those involved in modern social policy will tonight pay tribute to Richard Titmuss, Britain's first professor of social administration. The Times&...
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Tories back university expansion Shadow higher education spokesman Alistair Burt told delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool that there was no going back on university expansion...
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Today's main story The 100th Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to Sir Paul Nurse, the director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, his British colleague Dr Timothy Hunt, the head of...
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Nobel prize physicists named American physicists Eric A. Cornell (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT) and Carl E. Wieman (JILA and University of Colorado...
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Cell scientists win Nobel Scientist Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, was today awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. He shares it with his colleague Timothy Hunt and...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Oxford University scientists have discovered methods to detect breast cancer that will lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses. Financial Times US business students remained level...
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Rio hospital cancels operations Surgical operations at Rio de Janeiro's Clementino Fraga Filho university hospital have been reduced from more than 50 per day to just six in a state of emergency...
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Funding boss to sideline RAE results
Researchers who improve their standing in the current research assessment exercise will receive no reward next year. And those who slip a grade will not be penalised. Sir Howard Newby, who took over...
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Research in chaos after lab fire The British Antarctic Survey’s £2 million Bonner Laboratory has been destroyed by fire. The fire started at the building, at the Rothera Research Station on the...
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Lampl: fee system is rigged
Rich students should pay the full cost of tuition fees to subsidise poor undergraduates, according to university access champion Peter Lampl. Mr Lampl, director of the Sutton Trust, which funds...
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Ig Nobel pair tries to nail the bogey of nose-picking
In the name of science they studied shower curtains, nose-pickers and the wounds inflicted by falling coconuts. Last night, the proud winners of the annual Ig Nobel prizes picked up their gongs at...
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Student cash in melting pot: Labour Party Conference
'Don't expect too much' is the message from Brighton. Alan Thomson reports. Prime minister Tony Blair has ordered a special task group to review student funding policies raising the prospect of a...