RAE system error
So many experts have been keen to spend their summer judging this year's research assessment exercise that the computer giving them access to the submitted papers has crashed. A notice posted at the...
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Cell research, perhaps?
Oxford tutorials never featured as highly in Jeffrey Archer's life as he liked to make out, but this could be set to change. Jonathan Aitken, who has been describing from first-hand experience the...
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No pregnant pause
Part of the elite training of Oxford undergraduates involves learning to ignore the eccentricities of their tutors. Hence Mary Archer's ability - cited this week as an example of her extreme...
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Sister yes
Scientific sisters were sharing experiences at the Women in Science conference this week, though some might have found themselves with rather different views on the family. Asked about the...
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On the move
New members of the General Social Care Council , a non-departmental public body responsible for raising standards in social care, are: Tanzeem Ahmed , consultant researcher for Global Graduates;...
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Glittering prizes
Peter Cochrane , former chief technologist for British Telecom and a co-founder of ConceptLabs, has been awarded this year's City and Guilds Prince Philip Medal . Sir Paul McCartney has awarded the...
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Don's Diary
Sunday I would not advise flying Meridiana airlines unless you are a die-hard fan of Italian airports at night. Our flight scheduled to land in Florence decides to fly to Pisa, then Bologna, before...
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In the news: Will Cavendish
Environment ministers will have been preoccupied this week by climate-change talks in Bonn, but the discussions will also have sparked interest from the Department for Education and Skills. Will...
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After the dream, nightmare
Harvey J. Kaye was expecting more cash to fund reforms at his university. Then the economy went sour and people in key positions began to leave Back in 1999, I proffered the makings of a tale of...
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World watch
Rome Italy's education minister, Letizia Moratti, announced that university reforms launched by the previous government would go ahead in principle, but that individual universities were free to...
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Eyewitness: Indonesia's turmoil continues
Early on Monday morning, Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid issued a decree "freezing" the two houses of parliament, calling for an election within a year, and suspending the former ruling party...
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Fish you were here...
Where does a researcher go for summer? In the first of our series, Iain Young packs up his lab and heads for the Marine Biological Laboratory in Cape Cod. It is a hot summer's day as we twist our way...
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Why male Toadfish's vibrating love muscle may fail to hit the right note with females
It may be supremely ugly with big pop eyes, but the oyster toadfish is proving the darling of marine biologists, who hope its superfast muscle will offer new clues for the treatment of human heart...
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Cutting edge
An international collaboration of astronomers is shining new light on the interior of stars. We see only the light that escapes from their outermost layers. We have learnt quite a lot about the birth...
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How emu meat can solve your problems
If the thought of statistics leaves you cold, John Holcomb may be able to help. He prefers an everyday approach to the subject. Jennifer is a typical introductory statistics student. She is 20, a...