Honest scientist (batteries not included)
The chemistry department of a fictional English university and a sun battery provide the winning ingredients for a new play. Chris Johnston speaks to its writer and director Stephen Poliakoff The man...
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What button do you press to turn on tomorrow?
Science museums are now confronted by sophisticated visitors hankering after displays of nanofabrication, biotechnology and neutron beams. But how are curators more used to preserving the past going...
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Hungary for the truth
Gyorgy Litvan is history in the flesh. Jailed for his activities during the 1956 uprising, he is about to retire as director of the institute devoted to that turbulent time. Huw Richards spoke to him...
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Teacher courses run closure risk
FOUR higher education institutions face a 50 per cent cut in their teacher training intake and possible withdrawal of accreditation under the Teacher Training Agency's new allocations system, it was...
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Agency for Higher Education
There should be the "closest possible" co-operation on quality assurance between the proposed new single quality agency for higher education and the Teacher Training Agency, the final report of the...
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Catholic prize splits Polish scholars
THE Polish academic world is at loggerheads because of an attack on one of its best-known scholars, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, by ten academics at the Catholic University of Lublin. Professor...
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Welsh lose out in Budget
WELSH universities and colleges have been hit by budget cuts, which will leave them more than Pounds 300 per student poorer than English institutions. There was no sign of a share for Welsh further...
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Human geography project leader
Staffordshire's division of geography is undertaking a three-year Pounds 200,000 project for the Health and Safety Executive examining perceptions of risk in people who live near chemical plants....
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Head of cellular toxicology unit
Professor Atterwill regards the setting up of the cellular toxicology unit at the biosciences department as one of its major achievements. The unit studies diseases caused by cell damage and develops...
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The Lyons share of cognition
The city of Lyons has been chosen as the site for France's first major research centre for cognitive sciences. The Pounds 5 million project for the future Institut des Sciences Cognitives is being...
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Centre defuses ethnic hotspots
Denmark and Germany have launched a unique inter-disciplinary research institute aimed at solving ethnic conflicts in Europe. The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), based in Flensburg,...
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NVQs lift off
Candidate registrations for National Vocational Qualifications increased by 44 per cent to 118,298 for 1995/96, new figures from the RSA Examinations Board reveal. "This is the first sign of...
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Beer money
(Photograph) - Beer money: Middlesex University chaplain Janet Beer took the role of Children in Need mascot Pudsey Bear at the university's meditation group recently. She raised Pounds 340 for the...
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Prehistoric moving picture show
The Cave Beneath The Sea - Chauvet Cave
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Schools of thought
The Learning Game