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Fresh evidence for the theory that higher education aids sporting prowess - the South African rugby team who demolished England at Twickenham on Saturday included nine graduates plus one student to...
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Howard's beginning
Alumni to be proud of No. 20 is that well-known son of Romanian Jewish refugees Michael Hecht, now known to the police, and the electorate, as Michael Howard. His compassion towards displaced people...
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Clocked off
Donald MacDonald, recently retired as public relations officer of Heriot-Watt University, was last Saturday awarded an honorary degree. Pauline Weetman, dean of economic and social studies, revealed...
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Dusted off
Conservative poll ratings being what they are, can we be alone in suspecting an element of enlightened self-interest in Environment Secretary John Selwyn Gummer putting his name to the invitation to...
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And two makes . . .
Details of the 1993 shake-up of the research councils prompted by the science White Paper of that year appear to be taking some time to filter through to our friends on the continent. In a report for...
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Gaol bait
"All over the world the town of Reading is known through its association with Oscar Wilde." Quite so, although it was undoubtedly an association Wilde would rather not have had. Whether he would have...
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Och aye, the nookie
Polygon, part of Edinburgh University Press, has been sending out invitations to its launch of Scottish Love Stories next month, and instructs "Please bring this card with you to enter the Polygon...
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Nolan told of governing network
Universities are operating "closed" and "incestuous" processes for the appointment of governing body members which raise important questions about accountability, the Nolan committee on standards in...
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Green economist faces picket
A British economist is at the centre of a row over his controversial contribution to an international report on global warming. Campaigners, who claim that David Pearce's methods rate third world...
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Wake up
(Photograph) - Wake up: Theatre company Bodies in Flight invited audiences to a wake at Nottingham Trent University's Bonnington Gallery this month, as they performed "Littlun's Wake".
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MEP queries Euro-cash use
European Union money for research in United Kingdom universities is substituting Government funding for science, in direct contravention of EU policy, according to Glyn Ford, Labour MEP for Greater...
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Hi-tech future in reading tea leaves
State-of-the-art imaging techniques that can watch lesions form in heart disease and pinpoint where aluminium sits in tea leaves have come together in a single centre at Cambridge University, which...
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Merrily high
Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Participants in the Slovenian studies day held on Saturday at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London's Senate House found it tolled for them, and...
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Asthmatic laboratory staff win damages
Four former Glasgow University technicians who gave up their jobs working with laboratory animals after developing asthma have been awarded damages totalling more than Pounds 200,000. The three men...
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Clean image draws girls to engineering
The dirty image of engineering, said to repel girls from choosing it as a career, is disappearing with the new generation of computer-literate children, a conference heard yesterday. But women still...