Adult education
The dilemmas facing the film censors over what certificate to give films such as Natural Born Killers and Reservoir Dogs seem to have reached science education. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is...
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Found out
Message on door lesson No. 2. Spotted at Liverpool John Moores University: the injunction "Do not disturb", complete with rejoinder: "No need. Disturbed already."
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Wait and sea
(Photograph) - Wait and sea:the tiny island of Alderney, where a Pounds 10 million marine biology and archaeology centre is to be built. The developers are on the look-out for a consortium of...
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New marine centre fishes for interest
An international consortium of universities is being sought to control and run a new Pounds 10 million marine studies institute on the tiny Channel Island of Alderney. The institute, which will be a...
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Tribunal to reassess plagiarism allegations
Allegations of plagiarism against former University College of Wales, Aberystwyth education lecturer Janem Jones are to be formally investigated by the University of Wales. The allegations first came...
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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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Tempest predicts pests
Farmers battling against crop pests will soon be helped by a new device which can predict pest outbreaks. The Tempest pest predictor has been developed by Peter Langley, the manager of Insect...
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Hong Kong head moves
The director of Hong Kong's Open Learning Institute has been appointed to run the Commonwealth of Learning, set up by Commonwealth governments in 1988 to encourage wider international access to...
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Alumni launch PC fightback
Students facing allegations of breaking campus codes on political correctness in the United States will receive a helping hand from an organisation designed to "preserve free speech and free thought...
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Nigerian theatre works lost in fire
A fire at Nigeria's leading university has destroyed thousands of books and other documents on philosophy, theatre arts and Arabic and Islamic studies. Among material lost were dissertations...
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War-torn campus reopens
* Twenty-five corpses were found on the campus during clean-up operations by volunteers in preparation for the re-opening, Vera Rich writes. Two mass graves had previously been discovered next to a...
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A world-class mistake
The more effort British universities devote to the problems of the developing world, the better. But is the plan for the Natural Resources Institute, the research arm of the Overseas Development...
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Muscling in on the mind
Hunt for language gene" (THES, April 7) made depressing reading and I hope that the geneticists referred to will have second thoughts before spending their careers on this search. They could look...