Poor benefit in Chinese reforms of tuition fees
Chinese education authorities have mapped out measures to help poor university and college students while promoting a unified tuition fee policy, Geoffrey Parkins writes. Zhang Tianbao, deputy...
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City spreads the vouchers word
A voucher scheme for funding adult education in the City of London may be extended to more than 250,000 people who work in the capital. The Corporation of London, which is in the second year of...
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Training pump primed
Nearly 100 universities and colleges will receive Pounds 60 million in the next four years to develop vocational education and training. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is allocating...
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Science parks get virtual
The heyday of the traditional science park could be over if the idea of the "virtual" science park catches on, according to Ian Dalton, director of Heriot-Watt University's research park. Throughout...
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Call for animal rights reps
The warring sides in the animal testing debate have come together for the first time to produce a report on how to overcome their impasse. They have proposed that every research institution should...
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Success key to trainee cash
Cash for colleges and other providers of youth training could soon be largely dependent on the success of the trainee, writes David Charter. Training and Enterprise Councils are being asked by the...
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Graduate schools on the up and up
One third of universities now have graduate schools and another quarter have definite plans to establish them in the next few years, according to the UK Council for Graduate Education. But the...
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Crimebusting for Colombia
Colombia will need a collective change in values as well as its current programme of judicial reforms if its endemic violence - with a per capita murder rate almost ten times that of the United...
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Jose Escobar and Alvaro Tirado Mejia outside Senate House, University of London
(Photograph) - Looking up: Jose Escobar (left), general secretary of the Colombian justice department, and Alvaro Tirado Mejia, professor at the National University of Colombia, outside Senate House...
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Lecturer fights for 'rejected' offspring
An honorary senior lecturer at Glasgow University is urging the medical faculty to revise its admissions procedure after his academically qualified son was rejected as a prospective student. Brian O'...
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Getting chemistry right
The blueprint for a broadened chemistry PhD could be a trailblazer for the other sciences, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. At its annual chemical congress at Heriot-Watt University,...
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Science for all seasons
Future research spending must give much more support to interdisciplinary work, Sir William Stewart, the Government's chief scientist, said this week. He said a research assessment exercise more...
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Why blacks suffer rough justice
Black people face differential treatment at almost every stage of the criminal justice system, and a new study by researchers at Warwick University will be looking into why. The study will try to...
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Cryopreservation
(Photograph) - Frozen moment: Erica Benson, of the University of Abertay and Barbara Reed from the United States department of agriculture examine blackcurrant shoots being used to examine the...
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Cool hands work on crop probe
Scottish and American scientists are collaborating in deep-freeze research which could underpin the future breeding of new varieties of food crops. The University of Abertay Dundee is coordinating...