Institute goes for lifelong learning
A unique industry/university partnership aims to provide tailor-made learning programmes to enhance competitiveness of manufacturing companies starting with those located in the North West. The...
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Lawyers pressed to put accent on Europe
The Law Society said this week it was concerned about a growing number of clients suing lawyers for professional negligence over a failure to consider European Union law in pursuit of a case. This is...
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Nosey Parker on trail of student dodgers
Southampton Institute has hired a private security firm to track down students who dodge a campus car-parking fee of Pounds 15. The firm is hunting for students who park for free in neighbouring...
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Time warped
An academic hour is very different from an ordinary hour - or so the Russians believe. Students on a recent exchange visit to St Petersburg were told that the advertised four hours of lessons a day...
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Seeing the light
The Skeptic magazine recently queried Allergies and Allergens by Albert Budden, which claims that some people are not only hypersensitive to electricity, sounds and smells - but see aliens into the...
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Psychological blow
Students will be alarmed to hear that the man who discovered that they cheat frequently has been appointed president of the British Psychological Society. Stephen Newstead, professor of psychology at...
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Acronym angst
The Campaign for Release from an Acronym-Sodden Society, CRASS, has awarded its April wooden spoon to Bradford University's planned European programme of environmental education, the Module on...
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Gender pioneer
Dundee University, which is setting up Scotland's first chair in gender relations, also boasts the first woman to hold a chair in a Scottish University. Margaret Fairlie, a pioneer user of radium who...
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Criminal conundrum spawns retribution
Government rhetoric about crime prevention has not been matched by action, but there has been an impact at local level. Adam Edwards, research officer at the centre for the study of public order at...
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Satellite launch boost for UK
The United Kingdom's environmental scientists will reap huge dividends from the European satellite, ERS-2, due for launch last night. The satellite will watch changes in the earth's seas and...
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A waste of 20:20 foresight
Predicting presidents is a hazardous business which political scientists often avoid, but Robert Elgie now regrets not going into print several months ago with his views on the French presidential...
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No train strain for French
France's high-speed train, the TGV, flashes daily across the country at up to 200mph (320kph) and has been sold to Spain for its AVE line. Britain's counterpart, the APT, sits in sidings at the...
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Free degrees, no dogma
A Communist victory in next month's Russian general elections would not herald a return to ideological education in its universities and schools, party leader Gennady Andreivich Zyuganov has pledged...
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Murder taints 'tolerant' campus
The bullets which pierced the body of 73-year-old Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin also punctured many national illusions of tolerance and cooperation between the mainstreams of secular and...
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Wrong again
The Government is getting the student loans scheme wrong again. Incredible though it may seem, the advice of the few people who were asked has been ignored. The advice of the many who will be...