Working from first principles
How can your students get first-class degrees? Successful graduate Peter Tolmie reveals how it is done Easter vacation. The middle of the night. All the heaters have gone off. The weight on your...
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Nuclear Acord
James Acord is the world's sole nuclear sculptor and the only individual licensed to work with radioactive materials. Kate Worsley reports on the man at Imperial College, London, struggling to turn...
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Battle of the oldies
Being old is good for a university, so when Durham advertised itself this week as "England's third oldest university", University College, London, immediately sought to put the record straight. While...
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Top job dilemma
Among the oldest rules of top jobs in academic - or, for that matter, any other - life is that it is very important to choose one's predecessor carefully. Follow somebody who was universally...
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Secret service search
Rumours persist about subterranean rubber rooms in the former MI6 headquarters in London, which are now home to the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Antithesis, August 21). For...
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Russian power play
Alumnus to be proud of number 186 appears to be positioning himself as the Russian answer to British politician R.A "Rab" Butler, who spent the late 1950s and the early sixties about to become prime...
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Move to Greenwich begins
GREENWICH University is preparing to move into one of the most prestigious campuses in the country despite establishment "snobbery" against the "jumped-up" polytechnic. The university plans to move...
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Opposition to Greenwich University move to Royal Naval College
Opposition to Greenwich University's moving into the Royal Naval College has swayed between the anodyne and the aggressive. Country Life, July 31, 1997: "Let the government seize the opportunity to...
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Robust Nile fish to aid sick salmon
The observation by fish farmers that some fish families are more resistant to disease than others is to be exploited by researchers at Stirling University. Randolph Richards, John Sargent and Brendan...
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V-cs plan body to lift standards
David Jobbins and Philip Fine report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities meeting in Ottawa. Commonwealth vice-chancellors have approved in principle a plan for a Commonwealth...
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Study clouds heart disease risks
A Dundee University cardiovascular expert this week announced that preliminary findings from the world's largest heart study do not show a direct relationship between changing rates of coronary heart...
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Snake poison slows cancer growth
Snake venom slows tumour growth, according to Francis Markland of the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Mice implanted with human breast cancer cells showed a 60-70 per cent...
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Instant relief at hand for heartburn sufferers
Scientists at Strathclyde University have developed hydrogel "bandages" that can be swallowed to provide instant relief from heartburn. Unlike anti-acid tablets, which settle in the stomach and...
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Sociologists find staff respond to kindness
A team of sociologists at Ohio State University has found that basic standards of employment, such as job security and good relationships between workers and managers, were more important than...
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Goods tax threatens research
PLANS by Australia's conservative government to introduce a goods and services tax as part of its sweeping fiscal reforms will add considerably to university operating costs and to the outlays...