Collaborative cells
Canada's new and better-funded medical research agency will have a holistic view of medicine at its heart. Philip Fine reports Canada has launched a revamped medical funding agency that will try to...
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Catch a cold when you're stressed and your mental performance will suffer
But the answer could lie in a simple cup of coffee The common cold might be classified as a minor illness, but its effects can have a serious impact on quality of life, on the health services and in...
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Preparing for the age of total mobility
Internet-friendly mobile phones will soon be everywhere. Wendy Barnaby explains how they work At the end of this year, the electronics giant Philips launches new mobile phones. Proud owners will be...
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Treating model patients
It may not be as dramatic as ER, but the interactive, computer-simulated accident and emergency department being tested in Glasgow could speed treatment and save lives. The model has been designed by...
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Little bit under the weather
On June 17 1998, athlete Ato Boldon produced the best performance recorded in the men's 100-metre sprint. Yet his time of 9.86 seconds did not break the world record. According to Jonas Mureika, a...
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And the first prize goes to...teaching
The National Teaching Fellowships Scheme is shortly to award its first 20 prizes. But, as Jennifer Currie reports, the winners see the awards less as personal gain than as a tribute to their...
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Leading the link between learning
Glasgow Caledonian University has been a pioneer of workplace learning since 1992. It is committed to this in its new strategic plan, offering postgraduate courses from certificates to masters...
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A two-year BEng sprint
The cream of Motorola's young engineers are taking an intensive degree, schooled by GCU lecturers, while at work. Olga Wojtas reports on the pioneering link-upthat is getting results The Motorola...
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New approach to Old English
Old English is considered old hat in some universities. But the internet is helping to keep it alive. Tony Tysome reports Oxford University caused a stir in English literature departments up and down...
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Nerc sinks centre for coastal research
The troubled Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences is to be disbanded by the Natural Environment Research Council. Despite an Pounds 11 million rescue package nine months ago, a long-term decline in...
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Downgraded Italian lecturers secure Prodi review
Pisa The European Commission is to reconsider the case of more than 1,500 foreign-language lecturers in Italian universities who were downgraded to technical staff in 1995 when trade unions agreed a...
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Academic snub KOs boxers
The International Boxing Academy has accused college chiefs of "academic snobbery" and "a disgraceful betrayal" this week following a fight about the status of the Olympic sport. Students from the...
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Pay row dashes hopes of 'new approach'
Leaders of lecturers at new universities rejected a "derisory" pay offer of 3 per cent this week, despite being offered a better package than their old-university counterparts. A meeting between...
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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 historian who had a second go as first lord of the admiralty: " After the end of the World War of...
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