Unhappy return
An unwanted birthday present for Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of Leicester University, whose 62nd birthday on Monday was marked by a listing in The Guardian alleging that he is chairman of the...
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Feet of engineering
Creators of artificial life, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fed up with showing visitors round, have built a robot to do it for them. On the grounds that employees will just walk past...
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Talking head
What would you miss most if you left academia to become chief executive of a newly market-orientated but venerable British institution? David Rhind, head of the Ordnance Survey and previously...
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Sporting chance for German in Leeds
What do learning German and sport have in common? Quite a lot, according to Trinity and All Saints Comenius Centre in Leeds, one of a network of 16 modern languages resource centres. Together with...
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Plea for peaceline campus
Ulster University sought to inject a renewed sense of urgency into its plans for a so called peaceline campus this week, as the peace process in Northern Ireland limped on amid the threat of further...
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Serbs forge London link
An academic link between a British and a Serbian university has been forged for the first time since war in the Balkans began, writes Milica Pesic. The Centre for the Study of Democracy at the...
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No call to cut places
Only one university has asked to give up some of its student numbers in response to an invitation to all institutions from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In the light of severe...
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Thesis
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on The service is availableon the Internet at: http://...
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Salford holds Ireland forum
"Understanding the Peace Process in Ireland" is a seminar series kicking off next week at Salford University with some of the most important academics in the field alongside senior representatives of...
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Sea change: Amanda Vincent, zoologist at Oxford University
(Photograph) - Sea change: Amanda Vincent, zoologist at Oxford University, says that seahorse populations around the world are collapsing as people use them for aphrodisiacs, aquariums and especially...
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Recipe for life is found in deep space
Space scientists in the United Kingdom this week said they were "stunned" to have found water and carbon co-existing outside the solar system, meaning that the conditions under which life could start...
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No call to cut places
* University and college applications were marginally down by the deadline of December 15, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service confirmed this week. Applications for 1996 entry dipped by...
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V-cs' salaries
Sir Cyril Chantler, principal of UMDS, was paid Pounds 110,000 in 1994/95, exclusive of employee and employer pension contributions, not Pounds 139,000 as reported last week. Adrian Webb, vice...
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Love thy staff
Unison chose Valentine's Day to launch a campaign for better pay for its 40,000 members in universities and colleges. Its pay claim, delivered in pink Valentine cards, is for a substantial flat rate...
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Leicester aims high
Plans for a Pounds 42 million national space science centre containing exhibition hall, planetarium, theatre plus learning and research centres has been submitted to the Millennium Commission by...