Goose that lost the golden egg
Twenty-five years ago, two Cambridge scientists won the Nobel prize for medicine for a paper on monoclonal antibodies. But their technique was not patented and US drugs firms reaped the billion-...
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White paper raises a cheer
A Pounds 1 billion boost for science is only a first step, Paul Nightingale says Last week's Excellence and Opportunity white paper is a step in the right direction for British science. Instead of...
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Current sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT ANDTHE REGIONS www.technopolis.co....
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Cutting edge
At the Conflict Studies Research Centre, academics are using historical analysis to identify regions of possible future strife I retired from the British Army as a lieutenant colonel in April 1986...
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Past it? You're pulling my leg!
The over-50s are overlooked in sports science, yet a more mature approach would aid students, finds Jennifer Currie. Exercise may be the key to a longer life, but only a tiny proportion of this...
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Agony aunt
Q A number of students have contacted me for advice about resits on modules I taught. Since the summer is important for my research and I do not have a formal tutor role should I be giving them my...
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Star Turn
A Scottish history lecturer teaches US students that there is more to Scotland than Braveheart. Olga Wojtas joins him on walkabout Groups of American teenagers visiting Edinburgh in the summer are...
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Why the mouse is the cat's whiskers
In an internet society, do youreally need to go to university? asks Peter Goodhew. Twenty students in Holland have registered to take Europe's first totally internet-based global masters degree in...
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Coordinated vision
University teaching courses should include subject-specific research, argues Pol O'Dochartaigh. Why is it that postgraduate certificates in university teaching contain very little about the subjects...
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Big Brother in public eye on ethics
The British Psychological Society is set to investigate a sociologist's complaint about psychologists' involvement in the television programme Big Brother. David Miller, research manager of Stirling...
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Rules on recruiting students relaxed
Funding chiefs have bumped up the maximum number of students each university or college can recruit next year, after a shortfall of 7,000 last year. Until last week, universities and colleges that...
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Increase in funding for higher education
The extra Pounds 100 million for higher education announced by the government last month represents a 0.5 per cent increase in the unit of funding, ministers confirmed last week. The lifelong...
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Russia bankrolls loans to students
Russia's state savings bank has launched the country's first national student loans scheme with education ministry backing. The Pounds 2.5 billion initiative by Sberbank is aimed at existing students...
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Blair initiative may dilute fund
British involvement in the Commonwealth's top postgraduate scholarship scheme is under review as education ministers from 54 Commonwealth countries come under pressure to step up their commitment....
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel with the title of a minor metropolitan train station: " This is a true story but I can't...