Kick your door open
Give a university place to everyone from a poor area who makes the grade, suggests Tim Leunig One year ago, chancellor Gordon Brown provoked a big row about university admissions when he said it was...
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Right man at right time
FSA chairman Sir John Krebs played a pivotal role in the bid to control the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Caroline Davis talked to him. In March, after the first cases of foot-and-mouth disease were...
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Cutting edge: Colin McInnes
Solar sailing might not sound like an obvious candidate for PhD funding, but investment during the1980s is paying dividends today I first stumbled across the idea of solar sailing by accident, not...
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A case of bloody speculation...
... or why scientists and historians need mutual understanding to avoid a fight over genetic heritage. The brutal Viking stereotype has a convincing pedigree. Their culture venerated ideas and images...
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How to... Dispel nerves in a lab novice
What should a postgraduate demonstrator do if a student faints and falls off their chair? Kate Exley has all the answers. A few more years ago than I care to remember, I was a science postgraduate...
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Spy claim hits jailed academic
A leading independent Egyptian social scientist jailed for seven years with hard labour on charges arising from his research also faces spying charges after he attended a Pentagon conference. Saad...
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Colleges deride LSC offer
Fears of a financial crisis in further education were allayed this week as the Learning and Skills Council scrapped plans to freeze post-16 funding. But the LSC's revised offer of a 3 per cent real-...
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Higher education appointments
Sheffield Hallam University Philip Severs has recently been appointed director of finance. His joins the university from Centro, where he was responsible for promoting and sponsoring public transport...
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Women win top honours
Two of the most prestigious professorships in science have been awarded to women for only the third time in history. Frances Ashcroft, whose pioneering work at Oxford University is revealing the...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, has opened the Genetic Therapies Centre at Imperial College, London. Mumbai (Bombay) in India will house the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Higher education awards
2001 Pilgrim Trust Conservation Awards Mamiko Matsumura , who graduated from the Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) at the University of Southampton last year, has won first prize in the prestigious...
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Latest international news
Former education minister found dead Former Azerbaijani education minister Rafig Feyzullayev, jailed for 12 years in February for corruption and misappropriation of state funds, has been found dead...
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Latest UK news
Solo spaceship unveiled Space fanatic Steve Bennett today unveiled what could become the first privately piloted spaceship, Nova, which is 10m high and can take one person into space.&...
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Atavistic mistakes
The Ecological Indian
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Sphinx of Delft mystery turns into an open and shutter case
Vermeer's Camera