Privates face privation
Ireland's expanding private college sector has been dealt a second blow within a year by Northern Ireland education minister Michael Ancram's announcement that fees and maintenance grants for...
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Vatican theft: accused prof goes on trial
Retired professor and art expert Anthony Melnikas, the veteran researcher accused of cutting pages from a Vatican manuscript with a penknife and later attempting to sell them to a rare book dealer,...
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Faculty dash to brush up up their image
At tiny Lesley College, in the shadow of Harvard University, an anthropologist has been lecturing his audience about the impact of eye contact and body language - and how to dress for television...
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Diving to an early death
Improving the health of Filipino divers is the aim of research under way at Bangor University's department of radiography education. Decompression sickness is a major problem among Asian divers who,...
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An idea not to be sniffed at
A student's brainwave has given dairies an electronic nose for business. It also won him the Business and Technology Education Council student of the year award. Nicholas Aikenhead saw an...
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Infant growth link to osteoporosis
Researchers at Southampton University are investigating whether the seeds of osteoporosis are sown in early life. The Wellcome Trust has awarded more than Pounds 40,000 to the Medical Research...
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The great balloon debate
Seven scientists are plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon. Six of them must jump out if the balloon is to be light enough for just one to float to safety. But who should be the lucky...
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Nursery staff want equality
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities. Public service union Unison is taking Oxford Brookes University to an industrial tribunal as part of its campaign...
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Fast-track physios
Glasgow Caledonian University has launched the country's first accelerated postgraduate degree for physiotherapy. A qualification to practise physiotherapy usually comes through a three-year degree...
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Scots give boost to part-timers
The Scottish Office is pressing for an increase in part-time education amid calls for a better deal for part-timers in terms of student support and course quality assurance. Ed Weeple, Scottish...
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Creche course in satisfying the customers
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities The experiences of those who run existing campus-based childcare facilities and the parents who use them...
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Unions unite in childcare campaign
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities. Three unions have teamed up to launch a campaign for more workplace nurseries in universities and colleges. The...
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Labs face testing times
Public sector laboratories are braced for 12 months of introspection following the Government's publication of its timetable for reviewing each one by the end of the year, writes Aisling Irwin....
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Oxford enters business class
Better late than never. The best part of a decade since it was first proposed, the Oxford Master in Business Administration course will become a reality next autumn with the arrival of the first...
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Austen's musical persuasion
Music collected and transcribed by author Jane Austen two centuries ago has been revived for modern day concerts thanks to work by a Surrey University lecturer. Derek McCulloch has catalogued...