Oxfordwomen receive Pounds 2m in gifts
OXFORD's last all-women college is to get nearly Pounds 2 million in donations, but is still seeking support for science and engineering teaching, says its principal. St Hilda's College, which...
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Joint projects guidance
A NEW guide for universities and businesses embarking on joint research projects will be launched next week to help promote best practice. AURIL, the Association for University Research Industry and...
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Chinese open door to students
MAINLAND China is courting Hong Kong students following the return of the former British colony. The State Education Commission has given leave to mainland universities and colleges to offer an...
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Feet first: South Korea's Jim Taek Lee
(Photograph) - Feet first: South Korea's Jim Taek Lee smiles with his national flag after winning the high jump final in the World Student Games being held in Catania, Sicily, last week. He won the...
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Women losing out in science
MORE THAN one third of female science graduates are employed in jobs for which they are overqualified, according to research published this week, writes Julia Hinde. Thirty-two per cent of employed...
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Culture crackers
(Photograph) - Art and science mix this week as the Y Touring Theatre Company brings the trauma of mental illness to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Leeds....
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Scientists' image 'too polarised '
A BRITISH psychologist will call next week for science to be "normalised, not demonised". Helen Haste, head of psychology at the University of Bath, will tell a conference to mark the British Society...
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Mandarin slams Scots' colonial status
Senior civil servants are notoriously circumspect, even after they retire. But on the eve of the devolution vote, James Scott, former secretary of the Scottish Office Education Department, has broken...
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A very useful subject - in theory
The THES continues its series on subjects at the top and bottom of the popularity stakes. History & Philosophy of Science Europe's only dedicated history and philosophy of science degree,...
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School threat to stable staple
The THES continues its series on subjects at the top and bottom of the popularity stakes. History, by its very nature, is chiefly concerned with the imponderables of the past, writes Huw Richards....
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Physical confidence
The THES continues its series on subjects at the top and bottom of the popularity stakes. Sports THE popularity of physical education and sports science degrees has increased enormously in recent...
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Hazard busters leap into action
A REINSURANCE group is sponsoring the first multidisciplinary hazard centre in Britain at University College London. The research into natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and global...
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Bias binding
Soviet rhetoric about female equality concealed wage discrimination comparable to western capitalist economies, according to research by Katarina Katz of the University of Gotenberg, Sweden. Her...
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False identity
Plans to introduce photo credit cards to prevent fraud could have little impact, fear researchers at the Univesity of Westminster. Psychology researchers, keen to see whether the planned introduction...
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Worming their way in
worms may provide ideal biological indicators of the extent to which a farm can be considered truly organic, according to studies at Grassland and Environmental Research Institutes in Aberystwyth and...