The bitter sweet smell of success
Luca Turin's theory of smell could revolutionise perfume making but first,as he tells Kate Worsley, he must win over the experts whose noses have been put out of joint He waves a gleaming blade under...
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The mental agony of Ecstasy
The drug Ecstasy can kill, but what about its psychological effects? Marya Burgess reports Since Leah Betts died two years ago, after taking Ecstasy on her 18th birthday, the message has gone out...
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A treasure island easy to plunder
Britain's relatively casual attitude to its artistic heritage is once more under fire as three valuable works look set for export. Helen Rees reports Whether or not Britain keeps three valuable works...
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Catharsis of memories held like jewellery in a box
Having left Oxford and gone to the US, academic Andrea Ashworth found herself overwhelmed by the past. She tells Harriet Swain how writing a chilling account of her violent childhood helped lay the...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities (continued from last week) Dr B. Levine and Professors S. Perry and J. Coote, Pounds 110,684 from British Heart Foundation (analysis of the molecular mechanisms of...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 1.5 per cent of UK first degree graduates became self-employed * 42 per cent going into self-employment were female * 58...
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Whinge factor
Please get in touch all those of you out there who have been beneficiaries of government education policy. As we said last week, we need your help to counteract accusations by David Blunkett that we...
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Lecturers expected to vote for action
Modern languages lecturers at the University of Northumbria were expected to vote in favour of industrial action this week in protest against the ending of short-term contracts for three part-time...
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On the buses
(Photograph) - Doncaster College advertising students Nathalie Jennings and Holly St Leger saw the posters they designed go up on the sides of buses last week as part of a public awareness campaign...
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Research contest off till 2001
THE research assessment exercise may be delayed by a year to 2001. Submissions to the funding councils' consultation on the exercise - the method by which the councils assess and selectively fund...
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Guild of Picture Editors Awards
(Photograph) - Testing times: this picture by Pauline Neild won the black-and-white regional prize in the recent Guild of Picture Editors Awards. It shows artist Martell Lindsell holding works she...
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Staffordshire bull gets Real
Staffordshire University's Real Gallery in New York is inappropriately named. Its current exhibition, "The last paintings of Gary Richer", is anything but real. Gary Richer is an invention of fine...
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Anglia hate mail under police scrutiny
Police are investigating a hate-mail campaign against six staff at Anglia Polytechnic University who have supported complaints of nepotism against business school head Hugh Jenkins. A spokeswoman for...
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Glasgow considers position of stalker
Glasgow Caledonian University will review the position of a business administration professor found guilty of stalking his former secretary. Gordon Anderson was fined Pounds 500 at Glasgow Sheriff...
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Not all purchases are strictly by the book
Students check for academic waffle before buying a book, says a survey of student attitudes by the Marketing Group of the Council of Academic and Professional Publishers. The report found that...