Trio takes a peep through the letterbox
If being in the right place at the right time counts for anything, the trio of Miguel Martinez, Mike Noon and Sarah Jenkins should enjoy spectacularly successful careers. The trio - all at Cardiff...
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Green fingers
Adrian James, a scientist at University College London, is confident that his new device (a fast omni-directional non-scanning energy mass analyser) will be safe with aircraft baggage handlers when...
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Level heads and playing fields
Dear Ron... In the third of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Tony Wood, (left) vice chancellor of the University of Luton, takes pride in his university's...
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Small molecules, big breakthrough
Edinburgh University has joined forces with a clutch of pharmaceutical firms to carry out research that could lead to a better understanding of how small molecules interact with cellular proteins....
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Sudden drop in Bar pass rate prompts inquiry
An inquiry has been launched by the Council of Legal Education into the first significant drop in the pass rate of Bar School students. The CLE announced this week that the proportion of students...
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Research masters are meeting expectations
A review of the research masters course launched last year suggests that it is meeting the expectations of many participating students, the Office of Science and Technology and the research councils...
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Pacific overtures
Paul Keating launched Australia towards a republic when he was prime minister. Now a visiting lecturer, he tells Chris Johnston about his hopes for the nation. In the scheme of things, Paul Keating...
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Lab becomes new SIM city
Laboratories can now put themselves under the microscope using a software toolkit developed at Glasgow University. Barry Clark and Euan Crawford, of the department of pathological chemistry, have...
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On your marks for clearing handicap
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Funding targets are set. Students have their marks. And they're off. With...
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Fission fun
At last the event for those who are tired of all the carping about nuclear power and nuclear weapons and think they are just great. Coming next month, an annual symposium of the splendidly named...
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Misery Down Under as budget slashed
The Australian government is to slash Aus$1.8 billion (Pounds 0.9 billion) from the higher education budget over the next three years and radically reshape the way students pay for their tuition in...
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City advert 'stretched the truth'
Advertising standards watchdogs have upheld for the first time a complaint about quality claims made by a university. City University's Centre for Internal Auditing was forced to change an...
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Big guns join league table race
The university guide published annually by the magazine US News and World Report, whose league tables routinely drive United States academics to distraction, is to be challenged by similar...
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