Do the genes have it?
It is easier to destroy trust than it is to build it up - a principle coined by the social scientists as the "asymmetry of trust" some time ago. Someone ought to coin a similar phrase about the...
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Mind the plumage
It was said of Edmund Burke, the 18th- century political thinker, that he pitied the plumage while forgetting the dying bird. A thinking Conservative, he would have appreciated the Labour party's...
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Vilnius censures private colleges
Private universities and colleges in Lithuania are violating the law, a parliamentary committee in Vilnius has ruled. There are at least seven such institutions in the country, ranging from the...
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Student vanguard faces British barricade
A pioneering group of 16 first and second-year students on a degree course with a British university have become a total anomaly by studying entirely outside the country. The students are taking a...
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V-cs in NZ lobby for more funds
Vice chancellors will lobby hard for more funding in the run-up to New Zealand's first election under its new polling system. Leslie Holborow, chairman of the vice chancellors' committee, said that...
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Reign in Spain has changed
In the wake of the recent general elections, academics in Spain are following political developments with a keen interest. Many are trying to gauge what the coming of a right-wing government, after...
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Aussie pay rise is 'long overdue'
The Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee has warned the nation's new Conservative government that a burning issue facing the higher education sector is the claim by 80,000 university staff for a...
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Middle America in fees fear
Mounting unease over why middle-class Americans face increased college fees for their children, and what they are getting for their money, could offer fertile ground for political debate in the...
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When the face fits
(Photograph) - When the face fits: Glasgow School of Art student Dagfin Aksness (left) inspects a pupil's work during an architecture and design masterclass, part of the Glasgow Festival of Visual...
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SHEFC divides dwindling cake
Scotland's 21 higher education institutions are facing a cash cut of 0.2 per cent in their grant from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. But funds for the next academic year have fallen...
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Geologists pave way for shoppers
Tomorrow, on the floor of Central Milton Keynes shopping mall, geologist Jill Eyers will be crawling around with a magnifying glass, trying to interest passers-by in its geological history. The floor...
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Brain probe at snail's pace
Researchers at Sussex University investigating how nerve cells acquire information and then organise themselves to generate behaviour have won a Pounds 4.8 million award from the Biotechnology and...
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Danger ahead for new robot
An engineer in the British Telecom Laboratory at Martlesham Heath is today taking part in the first public demonstration of a "telepresence" link-up with a robot head built by Strathclyde University...
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Mancunians bid to rebuild The Baby
Volunteers and pioneers in Manchester this week began the painstaking task of rebuilding the world's first stored-program computer in time for its 50th anniversary in June 1998. The Mark 1 prototype...
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Cherie picking
Following the Daily Express's characteristically discreet, low-key appeal for dirt on the early life of Cherie Booth QC, aka the other half of the leader of Her Majesty's Very Loyal Opposition, we...