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University of Liverpool receives £2.8m to research alternative to petrochemicals in personal care products

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL is to collaborate with consumer goods and detergents giant Unilever and sugar producer AB Sugar to develop plant-based alternatives to petrochemical ingredients found in a wide range of personal care products.Read

Liverpool John Moores University to handout record £700,000 in scholarships

A CITY university is to hand out a record amount of scholarships worth £700,000 after being surprised by the exceptional calibre of applicants.Read

University of Liverpool student chiefs abandon idea of restricting remembrance poppy sales amid backlash

LIVERPOOL student union officials have abandoned an idea to block shop sales of Remembrance poppies, after an angry backlash.Read

Liverpool labelled one of country’s biggest hotspots for children persistently skipping school

LIVERPOOL was last night labelled one of the country’s biggest hotspots for children skipping school.Read

Heseltine Liverpool report: Key highlights

“GOVERNMENT should provide a lead to the private sector demonstrating that it conducts high-level national business in Liverpool, with more civil servants and high level functions based in Liverpool.”Read

Michael Harris

Bogus doctor jailed for pretending to be heart surgeon landed University of Liverpool researcher job

A BOGUS doctor jailed after pretending to be a leading heart surgeon managed to secure a job as an expert researcher at the University of Liverpool.Read

The fantasy life of bogus doctor Michael Harris

MICHAEL HARRIS was to everyone around him a leading heart surgeon, pillar of the local community and loyal Freemason.Read

University of Liverpool academic Professor Alirio Melendez suspended over ‘fake’ research investigation

LIVERPOOL University academic Professor Alirio Melendez has been suspended amid allegations he faked scientific research.Read

University Technical College to open in north Liverpool by 2013

LIVERPOOL is to open a new college within two years to create “the next generation” of scientists, engineers and health workers.Read

Liverpool’s only grammar school The Blue Coat launches formal bid for academy conversion

LIVERPOOL’S only grammar school, The Blue Coat, could be an Academy by the New Year, after submitting formal plans to break free from town hall control, the Daily Post can reveal.Read

Exclusive look around the new £25m King David education campus in Childwall (GALLERY)

IT IS the new £25m Liverpool education campus complete with its own synagogue – but with no blackboard or chalk in sight.Read

Surgeons work Dorris the horse with keyhole surgery at University of Liverpool

Exclusive insight into the University of Liverpool’s new £2m intensive care unit for horses at Leahurst (GALLERY)

AN INTENSIVE care unit for horses will be unveiled tomorrow as part of a £6m University of Liverpool masterplan.Read

Paul McCartney’s LIPA blacklisted for missing targets for helping poorer students

SIR Paul McCartney’s “fame academy” LIPA has been included on a blacklist of institutions failing to meet their own targets to recruit more poor students.Read

New £30m Gateacre comprehensive home will include restaurant and theatre

A RESTAURANT allowing staff and pupils to dine in style before and after class will be among features of the new £30m home of one of Liverpool’s Gateacre Comprehensive.Read

Merseyside schools share record GCSE performances (GALLERY)

MERSEYSIDE schools again consigned previous records to history.Read

Merseyside headteachers refuse to be ‘held to ransom’ over GCSE changes amid another record year

MERSEYSIDE schools were last night toasting record GCSE results – as defiant headteachers warned they would not “be held to ransom” over government changes to league tables.Read

Champion gymnast who balanced practice with study and twins among Merseyside’s star GCSE performers

A STUDENT proved that studying hard and meeting a demanding training schedule is possible.Read

Copperas Hill sorting office

Exclusive: Liverpool John Moores University buys abandoned Copperas Hill sorting office bought for city centre campus

LIVERPOOL’S abandoned Copperas Hill postal sorting office is to be given a new lease of life – as the first-class “epicentre” of John Moores University.Read

John Moores University Copperas Hill deal welcomed by mail unions

UNION chiefs who had led a campaign to keep the sorting office in the city last night said they were glad the building had a future.Read

John Lennon and Yoko Ono inspired bed-in protest to save ‘lifeline’ facility based at Lennon’s old Mossley Hill school

YOUNG campaigners are to put on their pyjamas to recreate John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono’s famous bed-in protest – in a bid to save a “lifeline” facility based on the site of the Beatle’s former school.Read