Slick film
A project which uses the latest telecommunications technology to improve pollution control in the North Sea oil industry is the first winner of the Pounds 25,000 Enterprise Oil and Heriot-Watt...
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Entente cordiale
The private sector is backing a new Anglo-French scholarship scheme to the tune of Pounds 2.5 million over five years. About 20 British and French companies, including British Airways and Pernod...
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Remembered hills
As snowstorms sweep the country, Aberdeen University is turning its thoughts to June 25, when Scotland was recorded the hottest country in Europe. That day, more than 200 teams, involving 1,500...
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Acronym beef
The curse of the recurring acronym struck again this week with the exam-watchers of the Schools Examination and Assessment Council apparently implicated in the row over beef. The thought that there...
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Drink and derive
To cultivate the research ethos at the University of Hertfordshire a programme "The effect of alcohol on student-supervisor relationships" has been launched by the school of engineering's research...
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Jacobite rewording
Edinburgh University has been celebrating the publication of lecturer Murray Pittock's The Myth of the Jacobite Clans by running a competition for the most appropriate anagram of Bonnie Prince...
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Scots heads warn of cuts
The heads of Scotland's 21 universities and colleges are drawing up plans to bring their financial difficulties into the public spotlight. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals said...
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Beak to beak
(Photograph) - Beak to beak: exhibition organiser Mike Ambrose admires "Corvous Coruium", a sculpture by artist Emily Mayer, at a show held to celebrate the new exhibition space at the John Innes...
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'Safety net' funding has strings attached
Next year's funding safety net will come with strings attached following a decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Meeting last week for their preliminary post-budget...
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Welsh lose Pounds 20 million
Welsh universities and colleges will suffer cuts amounting to more than Pounds 300 per student over the next three years, under spending plans announced by the Government this week, writes Tony...
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Employers reveal no interest in NVQs
Employers are rejecting national vocational qualifications, with over half saying they are "not interested" in them, according to a survey by the Sussex University-based Institute of Employment...
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Overtime fears
Forty-one per cent of men and 20 per cent of women work overtime in Britain, according to the world's largest ever study of overtime. Bob Hart and David Bell of Stirling University have found that...
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Horses for resources
Bidders for the Natural Resources Institute have been whittled down to three: Cranfield University; a consortium of Edinburgh and Greenwich universities, Imperial College and Wye College, both part...
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Take the wrap for presents imperfect
The perfect giver of Christmas presents rarely gives money, always wraps gifts and draws attention to the "ritual sacrifice" of shopping they endured in order to find them, say psychologists. The...
