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Alumnus to be proud of no 47 is Brian Mawhinney, the mild-mannered and conciliatory Conservative Party chairman, whose efforts to raise the tone of political debate have been so appreciated in recent...
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Bright sparks
Fears that students are failing to learn basic skills appear to be confirmed by an unsuccessful charity stunt at Aberdeen University. The students planned to walk over hot coals to raise funds for...
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A payslip too far for an impoverished professor
Ekpo Ekpeyong, one of Nigeria's leading professors of medicine, was torn between a crucial emergency meeting of the university teachers' union and lecturing his final-year students. An apolitical...
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Federal Wales faces role row
The University of Wales is bracing itself for a new internal wrangle over its federal role. Heads of some of its largest and most influential constituent institutions are backing calls for another...
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Listening learning bank
(Photograph) - David Blunkett, shadow education spokesman, called for smartcards and accounts at the TUC conference
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Cost cutting
The British Library is to stop the in-house publication of research project results to save money from September 30. The move frees money for research following a 13 per cent grant cut for 1996/97. A...
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Biopiracy on the Big C
Tim Cornwell reports on the exploitation of the biological resources of indigenous peoples. Did the 260 Hagahai people of Papua New Guinea know that their genes might offer a cure for cancer?...
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The colour of intelligence
Rejected by his publishers and boycotted by his students, self-declared 'scientific racist' Chris Brand remains defiant. Olga Wojtas talks to him. As Chris Brand set out last week for a lunch...
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Scots explore foreign ideas for industry initiative
Academics and industrialists are joining together in a bid to make Scotland a European leader in commercialising research in science and technology. Both sectors have given broad support to a draft...
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New RCA rector seeks lucrative commissions
The new rector of the Royal College of Art is aiming to raise the international profile of the college to make it the international research institute for art and design. He also intends to fight for...
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Four win stake in Canada EU link
British universities have won places in four of the first six projects in a pioneering cooperation programme between the European Union and Canada. Aberdeen, Luton, Sheffield and the Robert Gordon...
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Libraries' expansion shelved
Thirty-four university library improvement schemes estimated to cost Pounds 22.5 million have been scrapped because of the Government's capital funding cuts. The list of abandoned projects was the...
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Samurai in Scotland
A memorandum of agreement to promote education and research collaboration bet- ween Strathclyde and Tokyo Universities might not sound the raciest of news, but it has uncovered an intriguing tale of...