Heavy metal driven off road
Engineers at Warwick University have taken a big step towards helping car manufacturers cut car weight drastically through greater structural use of lightweight composite materials. Working in...
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IRCs failing self-finance test
Scientists in Interdisciplinary Research Centres are concerned about possible closures as the Government and research councils begin to take a close look at the centres in the light of changes in...
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Part-timers' rights spotlighted
Universities are being urged to hold an urgent review of contracts for part- time staff after a growing number of successful claims for unfair treatment. A conference for personnel officers and...
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From Exeter to Tibet with aid
Students and staff from Exeter College have just returned from taking medical supplies to a remote community of Tibetan refugees, who live in an arid desert region near the border of Mustang. The...
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Sister act
(Photograph) - Sister act: Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time campaigner against the death penalty in the United States, received an honourary doctorate in law at Glasgow University this week. Her...
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Copland to take over as rector at Westminster
Geoffrey Copland will become the new rector of the University of Westminster on January 1 1996, when Terence Burlin, retires. Dr Copland, who joined the university in 1987 when it was the Polytechnic...
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Graphics student in justified success
Sam Davy, a graphic design student at the University of Northumbria, was yesterday awarded top prize in this year's British Design & Art Direction (D&AD) competition for students, writes...
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Postgrads under review
Chairs of eponymous committees - Flowers, Follett, Jarrett et al - are to be joined by Martin Harris, vice chancellor of Manchester University, following the setting up of a new inquiry into...
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Where to start. . .
This week's prize for compression goes to Lord Roll, scheduled to speak on "Errors in British Economic Policy 1945-95" to the Institute for Contemporary British History conference at Queen Mary and...
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Just deserts
The unrelenting global expansion of higher education continues to push the parameters of proper academic study ever wider. University of North London public affairs officer John Izbicki was delighted...
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Lily livered
Back in fashion after some years disuse - the tradition of swimming the pond at Nuffield College, Oxford. Unconfirmed reports suggest that there were about half a dozen swimmers following last month'...
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Number one seed
Good news for Professor Lapping and colleagues - among the recipients of National Lottery largesse announced last week was the Poppleton lawn tennis club, which received Pounds 97,500 towards...
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Fertile soil
Hacks awaiting the unveiling of the new Scottish Office ministerial team showed not the slightest interest in education minister Raymond Robertson, but were all agog at the sight of the hitherto...
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Frankly puzzling
A check to the apparently inexorable progress to fame and fortune of Jim Hawes, the Swansea German lecturer whose first novel A White Merc with Fins has attracted bidding wars and sums of money more...
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Contagious rumour
Swift reaction last week to the news that Virginia Bottomley was to quit the Department of Health to become National Heritage secretary. Within minutes a spoof memo had appeared at the British...