Lecturers threaten further strikes
LECTURERS at Middlesex University are planning further industrial action in protest at plans to close highly regarded design courses and axe 22 jobs. Natfhe members are threatening to step up action...
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Brahms strikes a wrong chord for 100 years
Musicians have been playing the work of Brahms riddled with errors for a century because the composer and his Leipzig printers did not do their proof-reading carefully enough. Robert Pascall of...
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Genetic techniques get seal of approval
Scientists are using new genetic techniques to identify the sex and species of a seal from its droppings in an attempt to find out which seals are eating commercially-important fish. Half the world...
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Coach gets the measure of cheetahs
Everyone knows the cheetah is the fastest thing on four legs - but how fast? In 1965, a British athletics coach, visiting Kenya, turned his stop watch on a female cheetah. Now in the school of...
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Foster service needs care and attention
The foster care service requires "urgent action" to halt an impending crisis, according to research from the University of Luton. David Berridge, professor of child and family welfare, said that...
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Faith with little hope
The Church of England may not always offer women a very positive experience, says a Warwick University researcher who is investigating faith and females. In her paper, Learning to Swim When You Were...
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Macho image puts girls off IT
Two conferences consider how far women are taking leading roles in education and at work. Few women enter the computer industry or study computer science, because they think it offers poor job...
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Females fail in power game
WOMEN are failing to take a share of the power in academic institutions, remaining subject to decisions made mostly by men. A snapshot of universities and colleges shows that more than 40 per cent...
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Campus cuts drink times
Like their counterparts at many other United States universities, administrators at the University of North Carolina have become exasperated over alcohol abuse by students. A drunken undergraduate...
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Full-fee courses offered to homestudents
Australia's three largest universities have each decided to offer home students access to full-fee courses for the first time next year - at a cost of up to Aus$100,000 (Pounds 50,000) for some...
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Fighting talk on tabloid scholars
The war of words over university publishing is hotting up. Denouncing what he calls the "tabloid scholarship" of the university presses, an English professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, has...
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Disclosure plea on PhDs
The PhD productivity of graduate school professors should be made a matter of public record in the light of the huge variation in the number of students faculty members guide towards their doctorates...
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Research cuts dash eastern promise
GOVERNMENT funds for collaborative research between Germany and the former Eastern Bloc have been slashed. The German Research Society (DFG), which administers the country's science funding, has cut...
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Italy suffers doctor epidemic
THE ITALIAN federation of medical registrars has asked medical schools to halt enrolments for a year to combat a massive surplus of doctors. Aldo Pagni, the organisation's president, said there were...
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Bayrou ends reform marathon
A FRENCH university reform package has finally been adopted at the end of a marathon consultation process first launched after student protests in October 1995. However the measures were trimmed to...