Tax gives food for thought
Food studies lecturer Stella Walsh is to monitor the diet and lifestyles of a group of pensioners in Leeds to discover what impact the introduction of VAT on fuel bills is having on their quality of...
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Sugar data by satellite
Satellite data can now help predict the yield of the national sugar-beet crop, saving the industry nearly Pounds 2 million a year in the United Kingdom and more than Pounds 20 million across Europe....
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Aristos orchestrated rise of the concert
Late 18th-century London was a mecca for performing musicians and composers. The child prodigy Mozart travelled with his father and wrote his first symphonies there, and Haydn premiered his "London"...
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Recycled eggshells break into profits
Researchers from Glasgow Uni-versity and Queen's University, Belfast, claim to have found a way of extracting a profit from chicken eggshell waste. The United Kingdom produces 10,500 tonnes of the...
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Drugs and crime link
A clear link exists between persistent criminal behaviour by young offenders and high levels of drug use, according to Mike Collison of Keele University's department of criminology. But it is not the...
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College appeals in race case
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London found guilty of racial discrimination at an industrial tribunal last November, is to appeal. Farhad Shahrokni, a maths and computer...
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Ropa lassoes research councils to cause
Science minister David Hunt has announced the expansion of a Government scheme encouraging collaboration between industry and researchers. The Realising Our Potential Award, known as Ropa, launched...
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Proof of plan for child radiation tests
A Dundee researcher has uncovered an American professor's proposals in the 1950s for radiation experiments on "idiots and feeble-minded children". Sue Rabbitt Roff of Dundee's centre for medical...
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Results at the press of a button
First-year engineering students at Heriot-Watt University have just received the results of a pioneering computer-based exam, the latest development in the Pounds 1 million MathWise scheme involving...
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Profile points
The Higher Education Funding Council for England today issued Profiles of Higher Education Institutions, a 300-page guide to its consituency. The profiles include details of each university or...
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Mind matter
Arnold Wolfendale, president of the Institute of Physics, is to chair an Office of Science and Technology committee on the public understanding of science. Iain Murray of the University of Dundee and...
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Teacher sums
The Scottish Office has cut intakes to secondary teacher education courses by almost 200 to 1,210 in the coming session, and slightly boosted primary intakes by 50 to 1,050. Some new teachers are...
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Good neighbour
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
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Gas warning
The National Union of Students has again warned all students to take immediate action after the death of two students from carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty gas appliances in Walsall last weekend...
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Brunel kingdom
West London Institute of Higher Education is to be formally incorporated into Brunel University to become Brunel University College next Wednesday. The move follows four years of negotiations and...