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Britain launches new university
ASEE Prism, Sep 2001
England's far west county, Cornwall, is certainly beautiful, but it's not a place where educationally ambitious young people tend to stay. "Around 90 percent of young people in Cornwall who take up higher education leave Cornwall," notes David Blunkett, Britain's education secretary. That amounts to about 2,500 students a year. Also, Blunkett adds, "many do not return. A low proportion of the workforce has vocational, professional or academic qualifications." A big part of the problem is the lack of a four-year university in Cornwall. But that's a problem soon to be remedied.
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The British government is spending $76 million to establish the Combined Universities of Cornwall in Falmouth, the first new university in Britain in about 30 years. Actually, CUC will not start completely from scratch. It will encompass existing colleges of neighboring Exeter and Plymouth universities, the Falmouth College of Arts and five local two-year colleges.
Eggs break. Well, that's hardly headline-making news. But two Scottish researchers have Glasgow's veterinary school to see if diet can affect the strength of an eggshell. It's thought that free-range chickens, who eat a wider variety of foods, tend to have stronger shells. It's not certain what's to happen to the countless eggs that will undoubtedly be broken during the study- let's just hope that Thomson and Birkbeck like omelettes.
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