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Rolls Royce is investing more than Pounds 1 million in a new technology centre at the University of Cambridge. The facility will be based at the department of materials science and metallurgy and...
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Islamic group accuses SOAS of `cowardice'
Supporters of an Islamic group barred from promoting its views in the School of Oriental and African Studies responded by accusing the school of "hypocrisy" and "cowardice" this week. "SOAS has...
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Teleworking thrives in Surrey study
Two Surrey-based researchers this week predicted that the rise of teleworking in the county will lead to less traffic congestion, better job prospects for women and the disabled and a revival of the...
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Lang to boost Scots training links
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, plans to boost training links between further education colleges and local companies as part of Scotland's strategy following the White Paper on business...
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Quality must note technical advances
John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, this week warned that quality assessments must soon begin to take greater account of the use of novel teaching and...
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Charities form patent protector
The Wellcome Trust is to join with the Cancer Research Campaign's technology company to form a firm to deal with patenting and intellectual property rights from academic research funded by both...
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Employers' opinion shifts on NVQ
Training and Enterprise Councils have too much control in the delivery of National Vocational Qualifications, according to an Institute of Employment Studies survey of employers' opinions. TECs have...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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Salford academics sicker than rest
Health scientists at University College, Salford have uncovered some alarming facts about the well-being of their colleagues. A survey of mental and physical health on campus has revealed that staff...
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Watchdogs criticise GNVQ standards
As the CBI meets in Birmingham, Simon Targett reports on the latest developments in training. A Government watchdog this week issued a stinging indictment of the progress of the new vocational A...
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Scots fear Higher Still mishmash
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish Office minister for education, said this week that Government plans to reform school-leaving examinations do not assume a change in Scotland's broad-based four-...
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Principal's wife gets her job on merit alone
An Edinburgh University inquiry has dismissed allegations that a post was "conjured up" for Sheena Sutherland, wife of the university principal, Stewart Sutherland, as a precondition of his accepting...
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PC football
Somebody clearly feels nostalgia for that brief transition period of history when the polytechnics were independent of local authorities, but had yet to attain university status. Spotted in last week...
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Collision course
A semi-naked man lying on a bed of nails and under three concrete blocks forms the cover photo of the latest Cern Courier, the particle physics journal. The man, who is about to be hit with a...
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Miffed amateur
Tom McCool, chief executive of the Scottish Vocational Council, speaking at a conference on the implications of school examination reforms, admitted that one of the reasons he hated having to follow...