Shifting goals
Breakfast television has more to do with higher education than you might imagine. Those willing and able to watch The Big Breakfast at 7.25 of a morning will see blindfolded celebrities trying to...
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Nasty taste
Sideswipe no 93, is from Frederik Pohl's Drunkard's Walk (1960), sent in by Robert Dingwall, of Nottingham, set in a sci-fi university. "One needed a change of scene from the Halls of Academe every...
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Drawing with care
(Photograph) - work of members of an industrial education unit went on display at Queen Mary and Westfield College Gallery last week to raise funds for the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association,...
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Three-man race for CVCP
The contenders for the post of chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals threw their hats into the ring last week. Peter Toyne, vice chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University...
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Libraries' book cash halved
The years of Conservative government have witnessed a steep decline in university library spending with money spent per student on books and periodicals falling by almost half, according to a...
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Faith fashions economy models
A mixture of faith, fashion and prejudice is what Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ultimately to fall back on when taking advice from economic forecasters, according to a study...
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Nirex urged to use peer review
The Royal Society has urged the nuclear waste disposal firm, Nirex, to open its scientific programme for the building of an underground radioactive waste repository in Cumbria to national and...
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Nutkin goes back to the wild
Returning red squirrels bred in captivity to their natural habitat is the aim of a Pounds 98,000 release programme being co-ordinated by the Zoological Society of Wales at Colwyn Bay. Supervised by...
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Last bastion falls to the box
The last sizeable westernised culture to be without television will get it next January -- and researchers will be there to observe the effects. A team of researchers from Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Volcano ash chokes planes
When Mount Galunggung in Indonesia erupted in June 1982 a British Airways passenger jet flew into its plume. The engines were choked by the ash and the aircraft fell thousands of feet before the...
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Smiles better
(Photograph) - Anthony Clare gave this year's Happiness Lecture at the University of Birmingham last week. He may have failed to enter into the spirit of things completely since his title was "The...
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Lawyers seeking Euro bridges
Pan-European understanding and collaboration may be looming large in the minds of most professionals, but in the case of lawyers in the United Kingdom and across the Continent it is more a matter of...
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Tenure law angers lecturers
Alberta has sounded alarm bells on campuses by becoming the first province in Canada to restrict academic tenure. The Conservative government's latest adult education policy obliges all post-...
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Oxford quizzed over doctorate to professor
Cafas, the academic standards campaign group, is to question Oxford University about a doctorate awarded to a Glasgow professor of paediatric neurology after learning that the book that formed his...
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Mature approach steadily gains ground
The experience of mature students in the 1990s has changed radically from that of previous decades. It is now a misnomer to talk about "non-traditional" students, quite simply because in some...