FINANCIAL TIMES

A £100m investment fund is being raised with the aim of commercialising technology research from four English universities.

Chemists from the University of Nottingham believe they have found a range of environmentally friendly solvents that will help reduce industrial pollution.

Scientists at Imperial College, London, have produced a new material by rolling up magnetic films into "Swiss rolls" to improve the performance of magnetic resonance imaging systems.

THE INDEPENDENT

Susan Bassnett, pro vice-chancellor of Warwick University, writes that the Byzantine systems of monitoring teaching and research are driving researchers and lecturers away from UK universities.

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Everyone encouraged Toby Street to go to university, but now, more than £10,000 in debt, he might have been better off getting a job.

Sussex University, the hip place to study in the 1960s, is poised for a comeback.

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THE TIMES

Oxford University scientists say that attempts to bring long-extinct animals back to life, as in the film Jurassic Park, are almost certain to fail.

Many people who have heart bypass operations are never again as mentally sharp, a study from the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina has shown.

MISCELLANY

The House of Commons education select committee will today release proposals to transform university admissions. ( Independent , Daily Mail , Daily Telegraph )

The University of Warwick plans to make ownership of a laptop computer compulsory for all new undergraduates by 2003. ( Guardian , Daily Mail ,  Daily Telegraph )

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