Alison Wolf, professor of management at King's College, University of London, warns that vocational education should not be viewed as a way of engaging students turned off by school.

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Cambridge University's historic King's College is to introduce new controls to help process its thousands of visitors.

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King's College London and the University of Southampton both offer six-year degrees (a year longer than normal) to about one in ten of their medical students.

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The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) will work in collaboration with Oxford University, King's College London, Bangor University and the National Library of Wales on the "archaeological background of the emergence of the Celtic languages in western Europe".

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These are the Wellcome Library, King's College London, the Churchill Archive Centre Cambridge, University of Glasgow, University College London and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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You can visit many of the University's 31 colleges, but don't miss the extraordinary King's College Chapel.

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The study was led by Patricia Conrod, of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, with the University of Montreal and Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center in Canada.

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