Hitting the buffers
Robert Sheldon MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, made a declaration to an audience of vice chancellors this week. He said: "The Universities Funding Council is a splendid buffer." The...
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Scientists take precautions
The way scientists think about their work is changing with the new "precautionary principle" of trying to minimise environmental hazards, according to the chairman of the Royal Commission on...
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Culture of convenience from where women sit
Public loos, computer games and trainer envy will all be debated at this week's British Sociological Association conference, reports Claire Saunders. When Cardiff Council planned to build a public...
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Leaves hold key to solar energy
Glasgow University scientists have made a dramatic breakthrough in the understanding of photosynthesis which could open up the way for new ways of harnessing solar power. Neil Isaacs of Glasgow's...
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Teenagers feel need to steal for a game
Twenty-five per cent of teenagers would be prepared to steal a computer game if they could not afford it, according to a study to be presented at the BSA conference. Just over a quarter of the...
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2001: a Hubble odyssey
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Ancient tape-recorders that...
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Data bank with blind spots
The third set of education indicators to be published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has grown yet again to meet what it calls "the increasing desire among OECD...
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Sportswomen subjected to discrimination
Pressure on American universities and colleges to give women students the same athletic opportunities as men increased last month when a federal judge ruled that the Ivy League Brown University had...
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Technikons take lion's share of funding
South African technikons emerged the biggest winners in education in this year's budget, which increased the total education allocation by just over 10 per cent to R32.2 million (Pounds 5.65million...
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Questions for quality
At the eleventh hour the universities have taken a stand. And they have taken it, as they should, on the grounds of quality control and autonomy. It has taken a long time. Views expressed with too...
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Telescope is focus of row
The projected site of the world's largest optical telescope has become the focus of an international dispute about diplomatic immunity. Ricardo Giacconi, director of the European Southern Observatory...
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Medical barons on exam fixing charges
Eleven professors at Rome's Sapienza University medical school are officially under investigation for allegedly "fixing" competitive exams for medical chairs. According to the Rome judge who is...
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Crying out for Sir Ron
The vital words have been uttered: send for Sir Ron. At long last the Government has noticed, what people all around have been saying for years, that there is a consensus that "the qualifications...
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Oxbridge's law of averages
Gerard McCrum (THES, March 31) has correctly noted that women at Oxford and Cambridge are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. A principal reason for this is that far fewer women...
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Trash artists connect to `Othernet'
Collaboration between academics and an artist has given rise to a new concept of art as communication. The project is an inter-disciplinary, artistic interaction, crossing the frontiers of sociology...