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...
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Softly, softly
Ghigi, a student at De Montfort University, has won the Lycra Soft Young Designer of the Year Award for her underwear designs and a first-class degree in contour fashion. Ghigi is from Italy, but...
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Level funding but half the staff
The University of Greenwich hopes to maintain levels of research income at its troubled Natural Resources Institute despite cutting staff levels by half. Projected income for the NRI next year is £12...
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Dialogue is vetoed by Indians
India has sacked the head of its social science council because he invited Pakistani intellectuals to a seminar on India-Pakistan relations on the eve of last week's summit between prime minister...
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Winners rue £1bn prize
The universities that secured the highest funding from a government science investment fund have described their success as a poisoned chalice - because they have to raise a quarter of the cash. Sir...
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Latest international news
SA institutions are running on red ink Three of South Africa’s historically black universities have combined overdrafts of R193 million (£16 million), education minister Kader Asmal said....
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Latest UK news
Scotland drives e-science initiative Edinburgh and Glasgow universities are to collaborate in a National E-Science Centre. It is the first initiative in the government’s £98 million e-...