Dearing preaches to unconverted
Sir Ron Dearing proposed a new framework of national awards this week. Alison Utley spells out the implications for higher education. Sir Ron's intention, to "recognise explicitly" the equivalence of...
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Political football
At last the real explanation for fierce transfer market activity in political science. Nothing to do with research assessment, but a more traditional provoker of big-money transfers - football. The...
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Spin doctor
David Robinson, the new English vice chancellor of Australia's Monash University, is a keen sports fan. He has told journalists the best place to find him for an off-the-record interview at any time...
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Bleeped out
Time was when the only sounds in examination rooms were the rustle of paper, the scratching of pens and the boom from the chemistry labs downstairs as some unfortunate failed his practical with a...
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Few scientists
Still on the subject of sexual selection, Professor Jones reminded his audience that sociobiologists note that rich men tend to be more attractive to women and thus pass on their genes at the expense...
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Aberdeen anguish
Southern bias in the BBC will accelerate in May when a new programme, In the Blood, repeats an experiment originally conducted by Francis Galton in the 19th century. Galton devised a scale of...
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Nerve damage found in Gulf veterans
One of the key drugs that the British armed forces gave to soldiers serving in the Gulf War is so old that it precedes the date at which rigorous tests were introduced before a drug could be...
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BSE odds are unknown
Kam Patel reports on accusations of 'woefully inadequate' statistics on BSE, and the launch of a new research programme. A senior statistician accused the Government this week of playing "Russian...
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Engineers get on the wrong track
A survey of 2,000 final-year engineering students shows that only half of them feel they were adequately informed about their course before they joined and a quarter believe they chose the wrong one...
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Director quits in funds row
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology is once again facing an uncertain future following the unexpected resignation of its new director after only six months. The university court last year...
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Chair announced
Sir Malcolm Thornton, Conservative MP for Crosby and chair for the last seven years of the Select Committee on Education, has been elected chair of the newly-merged Education and Employment committee.
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Librarians ready to fight cutbacks
Library staff members of the Association of University Teachers are to campaign against further Government cuts in the face of what they described as "savage cuts" to university library funding....
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MAFF to fund new research
Kam Patel reports on accusations of 'woefully inadequate' statistics on BSE, and the launch of a new research programme. Health secretary Stephen Dorrell announced earlier this week that a new...
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Spongiform council beefed up
Kam Patel reports on accusations of 'woefully inadequate' statistics on BSE, and the launch of a new research programme. A shakeup of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) followed...
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Thesis
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a guide to the forthcoming Tuscon 2 consciousness conference, which it will be broadcasting in audio, as well as its guide to the news, features and reviews...