Workers carry on regardless of tax rate
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
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MPs pour scorn on scrutiny
MPs have condemned the Government's efficiency scrutiny of public research laboratories as a waste of researchers' time. The probe may also have been "profoundly and unnecessarily damaging to their...
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Perutz rubbishes Popper and Kuhn
Max Perutz, the Nobel prize-winning chemist, yesterday attacked the theories of science proposed by philosophers Sir Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, dismissing them as being applicable "to only a few...
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Bill of rights
Cambridge University Students Union launched a charter for undergraduates and guidelines for graduate study this week. The union will use the charter, which sets out the standard of education and...
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Sci-fi fund
If you want to write a science soap opera, drama or serial there is money for you from the PAWS (Public Awareness of Science) drama script fund. The fund has been set up to encourage high quality...
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Eight again
Cambridge dons have voted to retain the eight-week term. Most universities operate a ten week term, often with a reading week in the middle. Lecturers were asked to vote on whether to introduce a...
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Brainy bandage
Open University technologists have won a Department of Trade and Industry award for inventing an "intelligent" dressing which alters its pressure to adjust to blood flow through the wound. Paul...
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Congestion cost
A pioneering study published yesterday has calculated that the social cost of transport in London, including congestion, pollution and accidents, is Pounds 4.69 billion a year -- nearly Pounds 625...
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Medics wary of Bottomley Pounds 40 million
Virginia Bottomley's announcement this week that an extra Pounds 40 million will be ringfenced for research and teaching at teaching hospitals has been given a cautious welcome at medical schools....
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Discretionary grant system is a 'lottery'
The Labour Party attacked the discretionary awards system as "a national lottery with very few prizes" this week as Government figures revealed how scarce the grants have become. Statistics issued by...
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Skye site found for Gaelic centre
Supporters of a university of the Highlands and Islands have this week launched a bid for a Pounds 20 million centre for the study of the Gaelic language and culture. Scotland's Gaelic college,...
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History group slams council
The first review of the English funding council's quality assessment exercise by a subject association has found a "substantial lack of confidence" in the exercise. A survey by the History at the...
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Ashdown commits party to science budget boost
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday committed his party to boosting the science budget to levels last seen in 1979. Giving the Save British Science Society annual lecture at Imperial...
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Publicity let-down
Advertising does not pay, according to market research on potential higher education applicants. Interviews with more than 500 fifth and sixth-year pupils showed they paid scant attention to...
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Hair raising
Balding but still in your early 30s? Head for Japan, where scientists have filed a patent for a hair restorer. Its name slips easily off the tongue if you are a bit embarrassed about asking for it at...