Antibiotics short on experts
DOCTORS need to be better educated in the use of antibiotics, says a House of Lords inquiry into antibiotic resistance. The Lords' select committee on science and technology warned this week that...
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Royal College probes nursing losses
Up to one in three nursing students may be quitting their course before qualification, according to the Royal College of Nursing, writes Julia Hinde. At their annual congress in Bournemouth this week...
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Psychologist attracted to spirit world
ALAN GAULD has investigated well over 100 hauntings and found rational explanations for all but a handful. Rational explanations are, after all, his stock in trade. If only his fellow scientists...
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Broadcast reform 'will stifle democracy'
PROPOSED reform of party political broadcasting would stifle democratic debate and leave the electorate less informed, according to researchers at Loughborough University. A report by academics in...
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Ulster women test peacemaking thesis
WOMEN in Northern Ireland have helped maintain sectarian barriers as well as destroy them, research at Bradford University's peace studies department has shown. Part-time lecturer Ruth Jacobson, who...
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Ecotron aids atmospheric investigations
Raised levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have major impacts on soil ecology, according to researchers at Imperial College, London. The scientists, led by John Lawton, have discovered that...
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Abertay boosts rain forest conservation
A combination of biological and computing expertise at the University of Abertay Dundee is helping an international rain forest conservation programme. The university is working with the Forest...
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Dundee hardens its concrete expertise
Dundee University believes it could be the world centre of concrete expertise within five years, in the wake of a planned Pounds 500,000 expansion backed by Scottish Enterprise Tayside. Dundee's...
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Molecule magnet discovery
Chemists at Edinburgh University and the University of Florence, Italy, have joined forces to study the magnetic properties of tiny fragments of metallic oxides with the aim of substantially...
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Catalytic pollution fear
Julia Hinde at the Geoscience 98 conference at Keele University Catalytic converters fitted to modern cars to reduce dangerous gas emissions may be polluting the environment with metals whose effects...
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West plan gives fees freedom to v-cs
AUSTRALIAN public higher education would be totally deregulated and have to compete with private institutions for government funding and students under radical proposals published last week....
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America's new breed of 'fat cats'
TOP economist Robert Barro's highly public change of heart over a sweetheart deal that almost lured him from Harvard to Columbia University is fuelling the debate over the "star" system creeping into...
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Native elder keeps the peace
ABORIGINAL students at a Canadian university have discovered that campus life and tribal traditions do not have to be mutually exclusive with the appointment of their own special mentor. Roger...
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Penny bazaar principle in bizarre setting
IT IS a long time since we had stores that charged a penny for every item. The "one price" store was never likely to make it into modern retailing because any administrative convenience it gained by...
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Win some, lose some
At one level, the millions who bet on the National Lottery each week (pages 6 and 7) are a convincing indictment of mathematics teaching in British schools, since a poll shows that many of them think...