Double vision
(Photograph) - Double vision: Colleagues have presented Harold Hankins, who retires at the end of this month after 12 years as principal and vice chancellor of UMIST, with a portrait of himself by...
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UK research spending lags but still bucks the trend
The United Kingdom is defying the international norm by increasing research and development expenditure, according to statistics produced by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Fears over flood of racism cases
The growing caseload of compensation claims against allegedly "racist" university and college employers is alarming education managers. They fear an increasing number of frivolous industrial tribunal...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Distant voices, still lives
If you had behavioural problems at the age of ten you are twice as likely to be living in a stressful place at the age of 28, research at a pioneering centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London...
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Shellfish reveal cocktail of contaminants in sea
Contaminants in the shells of clams, cockles and limpets indicate pollution levels in the seas and rivers in which they live, writes Iola Smith. Traditionally, shellfish have not been used to monitor...
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Is everybody happy . . . how do you know?
What does the word "unhappy" make you think of? Your answer to this question could show how your memory works, and this in turn could indicate how likely you are to attempt suicide. At the University...
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Horde of the flies is key to disease
A group of London University medical students is preparing for seven weeks of sun, sea and sand flies in a bid to help combat a potentially fatal parasitic disease. The eight students from the Royal...
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Exam jitters extend to next term
A strike by state university lecturers and researchers that wreaked havoc with exams in Portugal last month is threatening to spill over into the next academic year. The three-week strike over...
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Students lose with joker
France has cancelled plans for a "joker" year, which would have allowed undergraduates to keep their grant for one repeat year. The second-chance grant was one of the key measures resulting from a...
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War threatens Zagreb facelift
Architecture students from Greenwich University helping to shape plans for the future urban regeneration of Zagreb are just miles from frontline trenches where Croatian forces are attacking Serb-...
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'Bias' shuts courses
The University of British Columbia, Canada's third-largest university, has become the first to close a programme for reasons of racial and sexual bias. The move follows the release of a 177-page...
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Hong Kong 'dissident' row hits official China visit
The Hong Kong government's top education advisers have cancelled an official visit to China, following Beijing's decision to refuse entry to one of the delegation. The chairwoman of the territory's...
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Hoax review of Boer book raises hackles
An apparently hoax review of a satirical South African work, published in the highly respected and very serious York University-based Journal of Southern African Studies, is causing great hilarity in...
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Hope in Pandora's Box
French scientist Harry Bernas gives reasons for opposing the Mururoa nuclear tests The main reason French president Jacques Chirac gave for resuming nuclear tests in the Pacific during the coming...