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Nottingham Trent University has established a centre to research trauma - a much- misunderstood psychiatric disorder The recent claim by ex-servicemen against the Ministry of Defence for compensation...
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Coping with mid-kid crises
Freud may not have had time for them, but five to 16-year-olds have much to tell us. Geoff Watts reports Forget about the outbreak of moral panic over Section 28. The dominant factor in matters of...
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Sinister sleeping companions
Millions of people are sleeping in beds teeming with the droppings of cockroaches and dust mites. A nationwide survey of homes in the United States, the most thorough study of its kind, has revealed...
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Supernova blast in Chandra sight
The violent progress of the blast wave of Supernova 1987A - the brightest supernova seen from Earth for four centuries - has been revealed by American space agency Nasa's Chandra X-ray observatory....
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Aznar picks female head of research
BARCELONA Spanish prime minister Jose Mar!a Aznar has created a new ministry in charge of research as one of the first acts of his new government. The ministry of science and technology is to be...
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University criticised for conduct in chewing gum case
COPENHAGEN Danish minister of research Birte Weiss has reprimanded the leaders of Aarhus University for "not showing the necessary attention in supervising the university's activities and its staff"...
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HE given say in post-16 plans
The government has bowed to pressure to give higher education a greater say in planning post-16 education, after initially excluding it from its Learning and Skills Bill. Lifelong learning minister...
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Flagship campus criticised for flaws
Problems with disabled access to Nottingham University's new Pounds 50 million campus, home of the government's flagship national school Leadership College, have emerged. Education secretary David...
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Web launch offers access to untapped wealth
Students will be able to conduct international searches for scholarships and bursaries through a commercial website launched this week, writes Alison Goddard. Iain Aitken, managing director of...
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Age of information falls short on inspiration
For the e-university to match Dearing's vision, it needs more cash and a wealth of ideas, argues Diana Laurillard A bewildering lack of vision obscures the debate over the idea of a global e-...
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Resource starvation threatens UK physics
British physics is in danger of losing its place as a leading player in the world economy, according to two reports published this week. Young physicists are being neglected, says an international...
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Surfers twice as likely to take up further education
More adults are taking up education and training, but new technologies have widened the divide between the "learning rich" and "learning poor". Three reports published in the run-up to next week's...
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Exeter targets its staff in RAE move
Staff at the University of Exeter are alarmed at the tactics the university plans to use to maximise its score in the next research assessment exercise. Under the proposals, some staff members would...
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Med schools worst hit by job threats
Almost 300 redundancies are expected at seven universities,with 200 of them at two London medical schools. The Association of University Teachers condemned the threat of compulsory redundancy at the...
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AUT snub to ILT's 'onerous' demands
Government plans to professionalise university teaching suffered a setback last week with a threat from higher education's largest lecturers' union to boycott the Institute of Learning and Teaching....