MRes popular
The new masters degree in the theory and practice of research introduced last year on a pilot scale has proved to be more popular than expected, according to science minister Ian Taylor. Research...
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Private cash guidelines
A checklist on rules governing Private Finance Initiative projects has been issued to universities and colleges by legal watchdogs. Further and higher education institutions have been advised to mug...
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Degree skirmish leads to ballot
Plans for a new Cambridge degree in education studies will be put to a rare vote of all 3,000 dons after protests from a small band of mathematicians and scientists. The degree, which will be mainly...
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Murphy's law rediscovered
An English professor has unearthed the manuscripts of the 18th-century creator of modern copyright law just as Britain was brought into line with France and Germany through a European Union directive...
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Squirrel nuts
The festive edition of the British Medical Journal includes a paper on whether Squirrel Nutkin had Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, which causes uncontrollable gesticulations and verbal outbursts....
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Pelican brief
Oddly absent from the 1995 edition of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford magazine The Pelican Record, is any review of the memoirs of former president Sir Kenneth Dover, which caused something of a...
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Parrot fashion
Commenting on the appearance of a parrot on Have I Got News for You, a viewer suggested to the BBC's Points of View programme that a suitable follow-up would be Bill Stubbs, chief executive of the...
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Smoked out
To ensure that people stick to their New Year resolutions, Glasgow University's geology department has stuck a notice on its wall warning: "Smoking is prohibited outside thisbuilding."
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Einstein a no no
The dream research team of Socrates, Einstein and Wittgenstein would spell disaster for research assessment exercise ratings, says Alistair MacFarlane, principal of Heriot-Watt University. Socrates...
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Bar stool
To get to King's College bar just travel to Waterloo, catch the Eurostar to Brussels and journey from there to Aachen in Germany. Brian Meek of King's College London went to Aachen, where he was so...
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Commons campus
Is it an unconscious expression of the University of Westminster's expansionist dreams that led it to send a Christmas card illustrated with the Houses of Parliament? Or perhaps it was intended as a...
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Off beat
Alumna to be proud of no. 25 is MP Emma Nicholson, recent defector from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. Her alma mater is hard to guess from her subsequent activities, which include...
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New Year Honours
Companion of Honour Sir William Richard Doll for services toepidemiology. Knighthoods David Carter, Regius professor of clinical surgery, Edinburgh University. Cyril Chantler, Children Nationwide...
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