Red tape chokes second loans
The student loans scheme came under fresh fire this week as it was revealed that red tape is choking a new applications system for second-time borrowers. The Student Loans Company in Glasgow...
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Debt fears deterring sixth-formers, says NUS
More than a quarter of sixth-formers may be deterred from going on to higher education because of worries over student debt, the National Union of Students claimed this week. A snapshot survey of 500...
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Exercise may halt diabetes
Researchers at Cambridge University are launching the second phase of a unique study of diabetes, this time investigating how physical inactivity affects the onset of the disease. More than 1,100...
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Housing grievances given early hearing
For many immigrants and homeless people with a grievance against a local authority the only course of action is to apply to the courts for leave to pursue a judicial review. As the official mechanism...
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Pigs could soon have their curly tails back
(Photograph) - Pigs could soon have their curly tails back, according to scientists in Ulster who claim a world breakthrough. Presently farmers cut pigs' tails at birth to prevent other pigs from...
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Greasy solution to tunnel fires
A grease that does not burn promises to help prevent lethal fires in tunnels of the kind that struck the Los Angeles Metro tunnel this summer, seriously injuring several people. Developed by Jim...
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Raw starch linked to healthy guts
Some food processing methods may impede one of the body's natural methods of protection against intestinal diseases, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. Researchers are discovering that...
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The last of the gorillas
A Hull University scientist is travelling to a remote area on the borders of Southern Uganda and Rwanda in an attempt to preserve the habitat of the world's largest population of mountain gorillas....
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Diploma revamp for social work
Social work's main training body is to toughen up knowledge and performance criteria on professional courses. A final draft of proposals for a more rigorous social work diploma has been endorsed by...
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New Aids warning as safe sex loses favour
Statisticians at the University of Salford have developed a model of the spread of Aids which questions official estimates of its future in the United Kingdom. If correct, the findings indicate that...
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Graduate schools call
Graduate schools would provide postgraduates at provincial universities with a stimulating intellectual atmosphere, says the only full-time employee at Southampton's new Arts Research and Graduate...
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Hull gets medic school
Hull University has launched a postgraduate medical school in collaboration with the local medical profession. It aims to focus on research and health care to benefit the local population. The school...
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A system's failures
Radical reform is imminent for Dutch higher education. Jon Henley weighs up the pros and cons and talks to Roderick Lyall, who has just taken up a chair of English literature at Amsterdam's Free...
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Why one academic went Dutch
Radical reform is imminent for Dutch higher education. Jon Henley weighs up the pros and cons and talks to Roderick Lyall, who has just taken up a chair of English literature at Amsterdam's Free...
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Backwoods Canadian at Open University
When Sir John Daniel applied for the post of vice chancellor of the Open University in 1990 he was not an obvious choice. Although he had taught at the OU in the summer of 1972, he did not expect the...