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There was confusion worthy of a Feydeau farce in Hong Kong earlier this month with the simultaneous arrival of two British visitors intent on schmoozing with the locals. As two separate dinners got...
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Mystic Cheryl
At the National Union of Students' Scottish conference last weekend, executive committee member Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank accurately predicted that nobody would vote against the first motion on further...
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British duo leads Euro Internet first
Two British universities are leading a Pounds 2 million European initiative to put degree-level courses on the Internet, writes Simon Targett. Distance learning specialist the Open University,...
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FACE the future
A University of the West of England project, FACE (facilitating access to learning for disabled students), has won Pounds 100,000 funding from British Telecom in this year's University Development...
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Disease unit opens
Edinburgh University has opened a Pounds 5.5 million molecular medicine centre in the city's Western General Hospital NHS Trust, one of the medical faculty's two main teaching hospitals. The centre...
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OST shunt called for
The Office of Science and Technology should be moved back to the Cabinet Office from the Department of Trade and Industry, according to Save British Science. Outlining policies it believes the next...
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How to save Pounds 40m
Better energy management could save British higher education up to Pounds 40 million, according to a report from the English, Scottish and Welsh funding councils and Northern Ireland's Department of...
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College bids spur franchise fears
A Pounds 600 million expansion bid from further education colleges for 1996-97, double the amount available, has raised fresh concerns that the sector is setting itself unrealistic growth targets....
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Age of genetic utopia
In perhaps the most jubilant message of national science week geneticist Steve Jones has announced that we are living in a utopia - of a genetic kind. "The great engine of evolutionary progress has...
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OECD predicts soaring participation rates
Universities in the industrialised world face further financial pressure as rapid student growth and government underfunding continue, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Campus links urged
William Hague, secretary of state for Wales, has urged businesses to network with universities to improve their competitiveness. Launching the Innovation Network at the University of Wales, Cardiff,...
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Ruttgers's shadow boxes dirty with his own party
The German Social Democrats' parliamentary education spokesman faces resignation calls from his party for threatening to break with the party line on student fees. Peter Glotz is set to publish a...
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Squaring the circle
The latest theories on how Stonehenge was built were aired at a Royal Society conference this week. John Davies reports. This issue of The THES went to press just before the astronomical milestone of...
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Risk in the rules
A NASA work culture that 'normalised' the danger signs led tothe Challenger disaster, sociologist Diane Vaughan tells John Davies. Diane Vaughan is no rocket scientist; she is a sociologist. But when...
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Sino the times
As China becomes a richer society it is ironically turning its back on a wealth of discovery about its past. Jessica Rawson reports The past 25 years has been an era of major Chinese archaeological...