NHS under new centre's gaze
Three universities have set up a national research centre to study healthcare problems, including patients' needs and expectations of their GPs, and the quality of care by dentists, nurses and...
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Brain op uses route from groin
Radiologists have devised a way of doing a brain operation without resorting to the surgeon's knife, using instead just local anaesthetic and sedation. The operation works by feeding a wire up...
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Keeping mum
(Photograph) - Keeping mum: the secrets of the mummy of an Egyptian priestess, Tjenmutengebtiu (Jeni) dating from about 1000BC, have been revealed by computer tomography (above and right). Stephen...
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College offers chance to research and teach
Barnsley College is near to offering postgraduate students the opportunity to combine a research degree with undergraduate teaching experience. The college, now in the final stages of negotiating the...
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Meltdown for safe radiation exposure theory
The belief that low dose radiation is harmless to humans unless they receive an amount above a "threshold" dose is being debunked by new research, writes Aisling Irwin. The findings point to a new...
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Unions fight pension plan
Higher and further education unions are opposing the Government's plans to privatise the administration of the Teachers Pensions Scheme, to which tens of thousands of their members belong, on the...
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Lib Dems plan new HE sector
A unified further and higher education sector with a new and completely modularised qualifications framework has been proposed by the Liberal Democrats. All current qualifications, from A levels and...
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Aberdeen University may sell Marischal College
(Photograph) - Aberdeen University is considering a plan by Scandic Hotels to turn part of its city centre Marischal College into a 194-bedroom hotel. In recent years, academic and administrative...
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Call for Scottish overseas IT drive
A leading financier has challenged universities to split into domestic and international divisions to exploit their multimedia expertise. Ewan Brown, executive director of the Noble Grossart merchant...
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Feeling the pulse
Antithesis is a regular critic of unwieldy and meaningless acronyms so it would like to give a rare bit of praise to the EU for its programme, Pulses for European Agro-industries, more commonly known...
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Widgery pokery
And another hello to master of electronic gadgetry and final-year design student at Loughborough University, Richard Widgery.
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Boarding up
Oxford has also this week made a great step forward for womankind. University proctors have decided to extend to women the previously male-only privilege of carrying their mortarboards, rather than...
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File IT here
Hello to the information technology course leader at the University of Abertay Dundee, Dr P. E. File.
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Mollusc mussels in on pollution
Pioneering work by British scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory looks set to place the mussel at the heart of a novel pollution monitoring system for the North Sea. Action to develop a consistent...
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Shabby campus shame
Shabby campuses point to years of neglect of higher education by government and the need for massive investment and substantial reform, according to a report published today by the National...