A Spiky passion
"Presumably, if you spend ****-all, you get absolutely perfect standards." Mike Fitzgerald is not a man to pull his punches. Perhaps the best illustration is this now notorious outburst, directed...
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Dirty way to skip jabs
Ready-to-eat sachets of genetically engineered soil bacteria may soon provide an easy and cheap way of vaccinating against some diseases, research suggests. Researchers at London University's Royal...
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Mums suffer in large family life
Mothers living in extended families, which may help children, suffer unusually high levels of depression and anxiety, research suggests. The research undertaken at Southampton University raises...
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Future looks rosy for Dutch inventor
Dutch inventor Wilhelmus Hofstede has come to the aid of partying romantics, developing a new method of creating multicolour roses. His method, for which he has applied for a European patent, means...
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Don's diary
Day 1. Eight hours bouncing about in an open truck and suddenly the silence of the desert. I am at the foot of the Brandberg: 30 kilometres wide, 2,600 metres high, a huge lump of granite in the...
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Women in white coats
"You do not have to be very intelligent or confident to be a scientist." University scientists were no doubt relieved that they failed to feature in a government poster campaign designed to get girls...
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On the move
Robert Burgess, senior pro vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick, will be the University of Leicester's vice-chancellor from next academic year. Professor Burgess will succeed Kenneth Edwards...
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Glittering prizes
Steve Gibson, the man who saved Middlesbrough Football Club when financial crisis plunged it into liquidation, is to receive an honorary master of science degree from the University of Teesside....
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Palermo
Students at the University of Palermo, Sicily, are pressing their rector to explain why a multimillion-pound building contract was awarded to a company controlled by the imprisoned Mafia "boss of...
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Oslo
Kirsti Koch Christensen has been elected rector of Bergen University. She is pro-rector of the university, professor at the university's department of linguistics and a member of the main board of...
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Eye witness
As the rescue mission in Honduras and Guatemala turns into an attempt to reconstruct their shattered infrastructures and economies, and the trail of world figures through the region slows to a...
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Lessons from the new kids
Eastern Europe could inspire the UK to break from its Victorian governance patterns and its large bureacuracies, argues Dennis Farrington. The Council of Europe's legislative reform programme has...
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A share option too good to miss
Scottish researchers have received a boost with the launch of a new collaborative venture, writes Olga Wojtas. Scottish higher education institutions have received an Pounds 80,000 incentive to share...
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Ear, ear
(Photograph) - Student Alexander Turner and centre co-ordinator Patsy Stark work on a dummy at the new clinical skills learning centre, University of Leeds School of Medicine.
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MPs get lessons in social science
In an effort to gain more recognition for the social sciences and humanities, 65 of Canada's top researchers this month met for two days with more than 100 politicians and senior civil servants in...