Country house hunt
THE HUGE success of period dramas on film and television has renewed popular interest in the English country house. The interest has not been mirrored in academia where, aside from a narrow focus on...
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Sponging up an oil spill
ADVANCED materials best thought of as microsponges could be used to soak up oil spills and to decontaminate land polluted by toxic heavy metals. Research at Greenwich University's school of chemical...
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A few snacks a day keep the fat away
SNACKING may be the way for men to lose weight, according to Sandra Drummond and Terry Kirk of the department of dietetics and nutrition at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College. A study of 100 men and...
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Scots circulate the Med
EDINBURGH scientists have won contracts worth Pounds 245,000 to join a Brussels-backed probe of the Mediterranean Sea. Working with 250 scientists from 13 countries, the Scots, led by Keith Haines...
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Disaster data comes to the rescue
COVENTRY University researchers have received Pounds 45,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to study the use of information in disaster management. The team will see how...
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Big Brother watches Big Brother
Big Brother will be watching 16 families in Yorkshire, East Anglia and London to see how technology is changing their lives and relationships. Researchers from the Institute of Communication Studies...
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Lectures
Leicester University. The following inaugural lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 1, The New Building at 5.30pm. They are open to the public. March 3: David Field, professor of neonatal medicine...
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Awards
The Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library have awarded prizes to the following for 1997: Vicki Caron, professor, United States; Nicholas...
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Towering genius rebuilt
TWO YEARS of painstaking detective work by an Edinburgh University fine art expert has uncovered the authorship of a newly discovered Renaissance manuscript on architecture. The manuscript was...
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Lecturer wins a second hearing
YORK University must open a second grievance inquiry into procedures for promoting academic staff following a recommendation from the lord chancellor. The lord chancellor looked into complaints...
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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The THES examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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Cyprus colleges dismayed at rejection of degrees
PRIVATE colleges in Cyprus are dismayed at an education ministry decision to refuse them degree-awarding powers despite positive academic reports. The colleges, established to meet demand during the...
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Postgraduates balk at 400 per cent hike in costs
THE MALAYSIAN education minister has said that fee rises of up to 400 per cent for postgraduate courses in several Malaysian universities are "reasonable and minimal" because the original fees were...
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Row over three-tier fee brews
AUSTRALIAN universities have suffered a dramatic drop in applications this year, with academics and students claiming that increased tuition charges are the cause. Vice-chancellors called for an...
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Pro-Saddam support from Palestinians
PALESTINIAN students demonstrating at the height of the Gulf crisis were exhibiting anti-Israeli or anti-West sentiments rather than simply pro-Iraq sympathies, according to observers. While hundreds...