Double-or-quit threat to science
The Government has launched an Pounds 18 million scheme for funding research equipment in the hope that its investment will be doubled from private sources. Universities will be allowed to bid for...
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Loan Bill survives exodus
Mature student drop-outs worry vice chancellors. Drop-out rates are still outpacing the growth in student numbers, a new survey shows. Drop-outs rose by 10 per cent to 54,000 in the 1994/95 academic...
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Sizing up the quality
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has decided to join discussions on the creation of a new higher education quality agency. The council decided that its chief executive, John Sizer, would...
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Sulphate strings could save sight for thousands
Scientists at Lancaster University hope their work on a little known carbohydrate called keratan sulphate will help save the sight of thousands of people. Its importance is only now being appreciated...
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Advertisers eat their words on family diet
Families perceive television advertising as having only a marginal influence on children's diets. The myth that parents are waging a continual battle to ensure their offspring eat healthily is also...
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Afrikaaner who runs with ANC ball
Easy platitudes about national unity have accompanied the rugby World Cup in South Africa like a theme tune, but when Andre Odendaal says "the excitement and the range of people who have been...
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End near for Asian dispute
A five-month dispute between Asian community leaders and Handsworth College in Birmingham was being resolved this week after disagreements over payments to tutors which could total Pounds 180,000....
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Scots settle
Scotland's former central institutions have reached a 2.7 per cent pay settlement, backdated to April 1. The award has been recommended to all 12 higher education institutions.
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service this week carries the Research Opportunities listings in full. The service also includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated...
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Oxford review snag
Responses to Oxford University's first wholesale review in 30 years have signalled concerns over the style and direction of the exercise. A report from the eight-member commission of inquiry says...
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Child prodigy is sent home
Adam Dent, a 15-year-old "child prodigy" who is just finishing the first year of a chemistry degree course, has been sent home until the end of term following allegations about his behaviour made by...
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Mine's a Napier
Academics at some Scottish higher education institutions have taken to referring to a gin and tonic as "a Napier", a reference to the High Court case this spring, when Napier lecturer Paul Agutter...
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Alarming tale
Perhaps Mr Widgery could set his mind to the design flaws in the fire alarm system installed at Imperial College London. The alarms are not triggered by cigarette smoke . . . unless the naughty...
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Mollusc mussels in on pollution
Pioneering work by British scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory looks set to place the mussel at the heart of a novel pollution monitoring system for the North Sea. Action to develop a consistent...
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Widgery pokery
And another hello to master of electronic gadgetry and final-year design student at Loughborough University, Richard Widgery.