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It must be a strange existence when you leave a high-profile job. The phone stops ringing, the press no longer seek your opinion and you might easily get the idea that no one cares. No such worries...
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Anger at cut in grants for young engineers
The Government's axing of a bursary scheme for promising engineering students has been slammed as "disgusting and thoughtless" by the Engineering Professors' Council and the Engineering Council,...
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Scots student halls get safety upgrade
Universities and colleges in two Scottish cities face bills of millions of pounds for the refurbishment of halls of residence because of an anomaly in the application of local authority housing rules...
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Parting gift
Parting gift: London Guildhall lecturer David Lane is one of six academics made compulsorily redundant as part of the university's recovery plan. Mathematician Dr Lane was joined on the picket line...
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V-cs attack teacher training changes
Vice chancellors and principals are challenging the Government's bid to dictate the content of teacher training courses and to re-inspect university and college education departments. They are...
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Schools project drops connection to Janet
Project Connect, an industry-backed scheme for getting schools online, has abandoned the idea of connecting schools to the Internet through the Janet higher education network. It is wooing cable...
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Internet provider U-Net
Internet provider U-Net is advertising in student newspapers to wake up students to its offer of access to the Janet academic network from any telephone socket. The dial-up service was launched last...
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Second 'Internet' planned
Fifty research universities in the United States plan to spend as much as $200 million in the next five years to bypass the go-slow Internet. The system, dubbed Internet II, is expected to be more...
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Irish protests force climbdown
Irish education minister Niamh Bhreathnach has promised to amend her controversial universities bill following protests from academics and politicians that it compromised autonomy. The bill, about to...
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Projects of Penzance
(Photograph) - Projects of Penzance: this computer image of the University of Exeter's proposed Cornwall campus in Penzance forms part of its submission for Pounds 40 million of Millennium Commission...
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Doctors threaten strikes
Deans of medicine in Australia are in conflict with the Australian Medical Association and young doctors over federal government plans to cut the number of general practitioners. University deans...
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Coppice solution to energy shortage
Iola Smith While England's willows are inextricably linked with wicker baskets or the sound of ball on cricket bat, a Bristol University project aims to develop them as a solution to Europe's timber...
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Shrimp link to vent life
The larval habits of a bizarre blind shrimp that lives 3,000 feet below the surface of the sea may provide the only link between life around volcanoes on the ocean floor, known as hydrothermal vents...
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'Hanky' vision explained
Scanning tunnelling microscopes (STMs) have provided scientists with the ability to see and even manipulate individual atoms. But do the images they produce actually reflect reality? Andrew Fisher, a...