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If 15 researchers take one day to process 1,000 questionnaires, how long before they reach a million? Four years and ten tons of paper, according to Valerie Beral , principal investigator of the...
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Wales Institute goes for economic growth
The Welsh Institute for Research into Cooperatives is being established at the University of Wales Institute. The institute aims to achieve sustainable economic growth in deprived areas. It will work...
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Plant rage may uproot experts
One in four senior scientists involved with genetically modified plants has considered quitting the United Kingdom because of perceived national feeling against the technology, according to a THES...
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Connexions launches to give youth guidance
A new guidance service for teenagers to be launched on Monday will encourage more people into further and higher education. The Connexions service for 13 to 19-year-olds integrates existing careers...
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Vienna
University and school students demonstrated in the Austrian capital and other university cities last week at government plans to introduce fees from the 2001-02 academic year.
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Washington DC
A federal jury has awarded damages of $2 million (£1.4 million) to a woman footballer who claimed discrimination when Duke University dropped her from its football team.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Valentine Cunningham and Ron Cooke debated the past and present states of our universities Martyn Hammersley. Professor of educational and social research Open University What a...
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Has the GM backlash blighted British botany?
The debate over genetically modified crops has had a big impact - but what has it meant for plant scientists? In a THES survey, Steve Farrar polled the experts' opinions. It is a time of unparalleled...
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Cold comfort in chicken soup
It seems that granny was right all along - chicken soup is really good for colds. A study by a team of scientists at Nebraska Medical Center in the United States has found that the broth contains...
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Heart attack trigger found
The latest advance in the fight against heart disease comes from Glasgow University researchers involved in a long-term investigation of cholesterol levels. The team led by Chris Packard of Glasgow's...
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Nobody's out there
From 1978 until 1990, the USSR made a scientific study of reports of unidentifed flying objects. Juliy Platov and Boris Sokolov reveal what was found At about 4am on September 20 1977, a strange...
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Bad apples in China market
The actions of a few "bad apple" universities could destroy Britain's attempts to move into the burgeoning Chinese higher education market. The Quality Assurance Agency said this...
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International academics wait in wings for Serbian democracy
Europe's education ministers see early repeal of Serbia's 1998 University Law as a critical step towards readmitting the country to the international academic community and the release of financial...
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Eyewitness
While Serbia's elections made world headlines, other election campaigns have been in progress throughout the former Soviet bloc, from Poland to Azerbaijan in the south and Kyrgyzstan on the Chinese...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has admitted that government attempts to improve the performance of Malay students through a policy of "positive discrimination" and &...