Elementary, my dear Bayesian
A mathematical technique first developed in Britain in the early 1760s is now a hot favourite in helping forensic scientists tackle the shortcomings in their work. Called "Bayesian inference" after...
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Cleanliness gets closer to costliness
A detailed study of household hygiene habits has led economists from Leicester University to predict that domestic water use in south and eastern England will rise by an average 40 per cent over the...
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Ex-director admits lack of skill
A key player in the Government's heavily criticised privatisation of the Skills Training Agency in 1990 has now admitted that the move was a failure. At the time of its sell-off, STA boasted a...
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Water meters 'are kneejerk reaction'
Water companies should have to pay for the water they take, says a Middlesex University academic. And they should install water-saving devices free of charge in their customers' homes. This would...
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Sculptured form
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London
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New blood bank
Another sorry tale of commercial values dominating our National Health Service emerged from a report on nursing students published last week. Far from expecting a permanent NHS post on qualifying,...
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Carried away
Full marks to Alan Mills of Leicester University, who does not let being an academic stand in the way of his creativity. His latest idea is a city-wide network of travelators to trundle people around...
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Get a grip
And now, a story with a happy ending. A new Strathclyde University graduate, about to be photographed after the ceremony by her proud parents, gave her handbag to her brother. The brother, refusing...
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Nuclear family
Congratulations to a bunch of particle physicists from 34 institutes who published a major paper on quarks and have now managed to amass one citation for every institution, according to Science Watch...
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Count on it
Inefficient administration can have its benefits. Overheard recently on one South African university campus was the following exchange: "Aren't you worried about compulsory redundancies, given the...
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Wait for it
Those pointed jokes about McDonalds' employees who get their posts through clearing are applicable outside Britain as well. Canadian news magazine Maclean's reports that the entire counter staff of...
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Natfhe threatens strike on contracts
College enrolment week, which starts on Monday, faces disruption in some parts of the country because of strikes by lecturers over contracts. Lecturers' union Natfhe is co-ordinating the action and...
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Squint for victory
The academic historian has a new enemy - and rather a sad one, as it should be a natural ally. Nothing in the World History Congress session on imperial archives won more fervent assent than a...
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Utterly scrabbled
Production quality being one of those things that worries academic and other authors, Canadian publishers DPLU, whose stand at this week's World History Congress at Montreal informed participants...
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Scots FE spreads net
The number of full-time higher education students in Scottish further education colleges has more than doubled in under five years, according to the Scottish Office . Numbers rose from 9,216 in 1989/...