Award scheme proves a triumph
One of the most significant aspects of South Africa's transformation process has been the extent to which well-qualified and highly motivated black South Africans have slipped easily and effectively...
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Boom in aborigines at college
The number of Australian abor-igines enrolled at university has more than doubled over the past five years. In the biggest education break-through by the nation's indigenous people in 200 years,...
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Collaboration sweeps research
By 2000 more than half of the United Kingdom's scientific papers will each be produced by three or more researchers working in more than two institutions or organisations, say researchers at Sussex...
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Fat lot of good
The idea that body fat is good for you is so unfashionable these days that it is hard to believe it could be true. As a result precious little research has been done to establish the facts. Until now...
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Digging to save Roman gem
An inscribed tablet found by Southampton and Exeter University archaeologists has been described as the most significant Roman inscription ever discovered in the eastern desert of Egypt. The tablet,...
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Blind faith for Swansea
Shadow education spokesman David Blunkett launched Swansea University's 75th anniversary celebrations by opening the university's Recording Centre for the Blind. The centre, the first such to cater...
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Quality quango named
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council have set up an 11-member review group to advise on the future development of SHEFC's quality...
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New number for worried students
Students in distress will have immediate access to the Samaritans by remembering the new number - 0345 909090 - which was launched earlier this month. The number is designed to avoid delays by...
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Mongolia gets economic lesson
New generations of Mongolian economists are to be given the chance to study the economic model that they believe is most suitable for their country, with the help of advisers from the University of...
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Sheffield plans Malaysian college
Sheffield University has joined forces with the Malaysian government in a Pounds 20 million project to set up a new medical school in Malaysia to alleviate a serious shortage of doctors. John Padley...
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Ulster promotes peace on bomb site
A symbol of hope is to be created in a joint venture by the University of Ulster and Fermanagh district council near the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland troubles....
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Maths chairman attacks standards review equation
Christopher Robson, chairman of the London Mathematical Society's education committee, says he is disappointed by the School Curriculum Assessment Authority's reaction to a society report which says...
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Davies feels the quality on campus return
The concept of a change being as good as a rest gets a ringing endorsement from Graeme Davies, six weeks after his move from running the Higher Education Funding Council for England to become vice...
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Lifeline to a better life
Despite growing up in care Anna Young is at university. She tells Claire Sanders how education has transformed her. Anna Young was abandoned by her mother aged just two weeks. At 18 months she was...
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Probe sheds light on solar eruptions
Eruptions of gas from the sun, which disrupt power lines and navigation systems if they reach the earth, will be investigated by a solar observatory due for launch next Thursday. The joint European...