Poplars wins EU popularity stakes
Encouraging Europe's farmers to diversify into forestry is the aim of the Pounds 1 million Beam Project, funded by the European Union, and based at the school of agriculture and forest science at the...
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Mums get white meat warning
Babies are being denied vital nutrients by mothers who feed them fish and chicken rather than red meat, according to a study at Surrey University. The research, by Jackie Stordy and Jane Morgan,...
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Talks over ideas right
University industrial liaison officials last week met representatives from leading companies that fund research as part of a series of talks aimed at establishing new arrangements for ownership of...
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Canadian trinity
As well as some excellent universities, Canada can claim to have given the world two of this century's sharpest academic wits, with John Kenneth Galbraith following in the footsteps of Stephen...
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Armchair charity
Charities upset that the national lottery might hamper their fundraising are comforting themselves that, in order to take part, competitors must both drag themselves down to the shops and have a fair...
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Jobs drying up for graduates
Employment experts said this week that job prospects for next year's graduates are bleak. The Institute for Employment Studies says the graduate market remains characterised by "surpluses rather than...
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Following Freud
In Frederick Crews's splendid article (THES, March 3) dealing with the responses to his attack on Freud, he comments that his original essay continues to attract more attention than all of his...
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Following Freud
Frederick Crews makes a number of basic factual errors in his "triumphalist" critical attack on psychoanalysis. First, he makes the absurd assumption that clinical psychoanalysis has not changed...
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The Don Juans
'I was worried it would affect my degree';Claire Sanders tells of her experiences at the hands of a lecherous tutor. It was over ten years ago that one of my supervisors at Cambridge University...
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A child of our time
Julian Philips surveys the life of English composer, pacifist and nonagenarian writer of rap, Sir Michael Tippett. Earlier this year, one of Britain's most remarkable composers celebrated his...
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Amazed by muscular fleas
Aisling Irwin reports on a project that aims to capture on film the obsessive wonder of scientists for the natural world. Can you remember when, as a child, you were filled with wonder at the world?...
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'No confidence' catches on
Further education lecturers held strikes across the country this week in the contracts dispute which has contributed to 70 separate votes of no confidence in management at colleges since September....
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Medical charities want more say in decisions
The expansion of the Wellcome Trust has led to renewed calls for a forum to monitor medical research policy. The forum would enable all major funders of medical research to overcome the fragmented...