A bounce a day keeps brittle bones away
A daily routine of 50 jumps could help save women from osteoporosis, according to a Nottingham University researcher. Joan Bassey, senior lecturer in physiology in Nottingham's medical school, warns...
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Rejected candidate loses court bid for place
University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow their entry criteria following a court ruling this week. Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow...
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Caveats from the great exercise
YOUR informative analysis of last year's research assessment exercise (THES, December 20) lacked a breakdown in the analysis of medical subjects, especially hospital-based clinical subjects. A...
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IT benefits 'may not save cash'
Information technology can enhance education but does not always save money, vice chancellors and other policy-makers will be told at a meeting in London on January 22. The decision-makers will hear...
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Mechanical mistake
The THES December issue reported that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers are considering merging. It is the Institution...
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Students test Israeli smartcard
Bar-ilan University is the first testbed for a smartcard that Israel's national communication company Bezek hopes to introduce nationally. The smartcard, which looks like a credit card and contains a...
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Neuroscience audit
PRISM, the Wellcome Trust's Unit for Policy Research in Science and Medicine, has begun an audit of neuroscience research. The group is looking at United Kingdom funding patterns and likely future...
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Baby watched
Researchers at Durham University are appealing for 60 new-born babies to help a study on changing tastes. The babies will be filmed at age three months, nine months and 15 months to discover their...
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Genetics mutates and grows
THES reporters look at how departments prepared for and responded to last week's research assessments. GENETICS: CAMBRIDGE 1992 rating: 5 1996 rating: 5* Since the 1992 research assessment exercise...
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Interest raised in balances
MANY universities could achieve higher rates of return on their investments through better cashflow forecasting and a more formal approach to treasury management, according to a report from the three...
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Fund blow for colleges
A CASH fund to help colleges meet the costs of restructuring will not be renewed this year, the Further Education Funding Council has announced. The fund, which has paid out Pounds 77.2 million since...
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Road safety advice causes danger
THE TRADITIONAL "stop, look and listen" road safety message could be putting children's lives at risk, according to researchers. Psychologists at the university of Lincolnshire and Humberside have...
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Higher and further education
Almost all British academics in higher and further education think students' work is being harmed by hardship, and amajority think that the standing of British higher education is lower than in 1980...
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Myopic elites
For many years Oxford, Cambridge and London played a highly constructive role in helping to set up other universities. It is therefore deeply ironic that members of these universities are prominent...