Tall tales
There's nothing like slightly outre academic expertise to get the odd phone calls coming in. Roderick Floud, the provost of London Guildhall University, is also a leading authority on height through...
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Good God!
Reassurance for those with doubts about the Foreign Office's sources of advice from the latest issue of PSA News: "Basil Eastwood (Head of Research and Analysis Department, FCO), spoke to GOD at...
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Disgusted of . . .
What you find disgusting is not a unique aspect of your multi-faceted personality but falls neatly into one of five categories common to all of us, psychologists have discovered. Karen Barker of City...
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Lounge lizards
Good news for Saville Row. The highly tasteful invitation to the National History Museum membership scheme launch, sponsored by Glaxo, includes the invaluable information that it "Admits Two Lounge...
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Bright girl
One of the first recruits to the University of Warwick's prestigious research fellowships is Sadie Plant, now at the University of Birmingham, who has been described in another newspaper as the...
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Wuff justice
Those doggone days waiting at the kennels for the owner to return from holiday could soon be over, thanks to scientists. They are raiding the anti-depressant cupboards at drug company Upjohn to find...
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A mite clean
At this delicate stage of the annual pay round, the Association for University Teachers is taking no chances on its office being bugged. Such is the diligence with which staff protection measures are...
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Git grads
Private Eye's reprint of a BBC memo explaining the proportion of the population finding certain swear words offensive should be creating a stir in the more market-research conscious parts of Oxford...
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Irish university in offing
A religious group at the University of Coventry is coordinating plans for a new Catholic university for the West of Ireland. The Faith Alive organisation is believed to have secured the backing of...
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On the treadmill
(Photograph) - On the treadmill: Loughborough University vice chancellor David Wallace tests his fitness before Sunday's London Marathon, supervised by Mary Nevill, sports science lecturer and former...
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Manchester opts against sackings
Manchester University has ruled out redundancies as a means of dealing with its poor 1995/96 grant settlement. Martin Harris, vice chancellor of the university, said: "There is absolutely no plan for...
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Molecular cell lab boosts gene research
A Pounds 7 million laboratory for molecular cell biology, opened last week at University College London, will enable scientists to study the genes that have been discovered by gene-mapping programmes...
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Students may face 'nous' test
Final-year undergraduates may be expected to take a national test which demonstrates their employment potential, if embryonic plans by academics and graduate recruiters are implemented. Likened to a...
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Boosting morale
(Photograph) - Boosting morale: Members of Natfhe college branches around London joined demonstrating lecturers from Southwark College in support of their all-out strike which began on March 14. The...
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V-c pay survey
Last week's survey of vice chancellors' pay omitted Bristol University, whose vice chancellor John Kingman received a salary of Pounds 86,650 in 1993/94. Derek Fraser, vice chancellor of Teesside...