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An academic who has contributed to investigations of major oil industry disasters - including the fire on the Piper Alpha rig in the North Sea that killed more than 100 people in 1988 - has been made...
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Plymouth rocked by fiscal irregularities
Leaks reveal examples of senior staff breaking the university's financial rules. Melanie Newman writes
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Shroom with a view
Hallucinogenic mushrooms may be responsible for the myth that Father Christmas was pulled through the air by reindeer. National experts on mushrooms, mythology and the environment met at Sheffield...
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London School of Economics - The gifts that don't start giving
An academic has urged people to curb the number of Christmas presents they buy. In a lecture at the London School of Economics, Joel Waldfogel, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the US...
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Durham University - Alternative sheep music
The Christmas carol While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night was originally sung to a different tune, research suggests. The traditional song once had the same melody used for the Yorkshire...
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University of Aberdeen - Bit of a laugh
Visitors to the Glasgow Science Centre will have the chance to create their own Christmas-cracker jokes over the festive season, courtesy of a computer developed by scientists at the University of...
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Male-order shopping
A study by an academic from Leeds Metropolitan University has confirmed that there are two types of male shopper: the "traditional" and the "metrosexual" man. John Temperley, senior lecturer in...
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Cambridge/Lancaster/Warwick - It all adds up
Producing employable mathematics researchers who will contribute to the UK economy is the aim of a £13 million investment in three new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs). The Engineering and...
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Wolverhampton/London/Sheffield - Talk taught
A new project will look at how languages are taught in schools in order to improve teacher training. The University of Wolverhampton's Language Networks for Excellence is part of a consortium...
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Coventry University - Proud 'parent'
A university has won an award that recognises its achievement in "incubating" fledgeling businesses. Coventry University Enterprises (CUE) has received the 2009 UK Business Incubation Award for...
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Odds and quads
This tribute to a beloved pet cat was written by Alexander Warren Dury Mitton, a genealogist and one-time Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms at the College of Arms.Anxious that his "small belongings...
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Architects doubt benefits of 'greenwash ecotecture'
Adapting existing buildings should be best practice for sector, critics state. Hannah Fearn reports
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A greater London assembly
Plans for the capital's proposed biomedical super-lab are advancing but big hurdles remain, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHAward winner: Anita SimondsInstitution: Royal Brompton HospitalValue: £39,478Evaluation of droplet dispersion during non-invasive ventilation, oxygen therapy and...
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News in brief
Online learningTask force aims to keep UK topA task force has been set up in an attempt to cement the UK's leading global position in online learning. The Online Learning Task Force will be chaired...