Foresight study puts biology in top place
Biology will be the dominant science of the 21st century and Britain should commit itself to a big drive in research and exploitation of areas such as ageing and disabling degenerative diseases, the...
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Top-level clash on quality plan
Vice chancellors and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are still at odds over quality assurance as the deadline looms for submitting proposals to the Government. Graeme Davies, chief...
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Feel-real factor sweeps NUS
Student leaders have prepared the ground for a wholesale review of their policy on funding tuition and students in the further and higher education system. Eighteen university unions proposed a...
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First sight for Foresight
The Office of Science and Technology this week declared the first batch of reports from the Government's Pounds 1.6 million Foresight exercise on research needs and market opportunities for the...
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V-cs ask for five-year tax clause
Vice chancellors, who signed up to the tax-driven Qualifying Indexed Securities scheme, this week demanded a five-year exemption to tax changes announced in the November budget. They calculate that...
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Universities an election issue
Three weeks before the April round of voting in France's presidential elections, the Conference of University Presidents has called on all candidates to say whether they would make higher education a...
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When the Croat comes in
(Photograph) - When the Croat comes in: Cambridge's traditional Boat Race support will be swollen tomorrow by members of the Croat community in Britain, cheering on the first Croat ever to row for...
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Archaeology headhunting upsets staff
Derek Roberts, provost of University College London, has stirred up academic staff resentment by the use of a head-hunting recruitment strategy used more commonly in the corporate world. The row...
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Planet Earth calling Joe Public
Ragnar E. Lofstedt questions whether the Government's public awareness campaign to cut energy consumption for environmental reasons is hitting home. The UK is one of the few nations in Europe that is...
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The second sex
Gerard McCrum argues that women from state schools are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. Why do men dominate the finals lists at both Oxford and Cambridge, scoring...
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Name in vain
Huw Richards on the man who coined the word Pakistan. Rahmat Ali's holy book may have been The Koran, but he would have had no difficulty in recognising the biblical concept of the prophet without...
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When a grunt means 'Sorry'
On the eve of a major conference on the evolution of behaviour in primates and man, Robin Dunbar explains why he believes animals are capable of culture I think, therefore I am," declared the 17th-...
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Friends, Romans, babysitters
Modern day Italian parents may well discuss the cost of babysitteraggio, and young Italians know that when they buy a T-shirt they should ask for una medium (pronounced maydium) or una large, T-...
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Big universe, little men
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
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Teacher knows best
Talk about education inevitably incites disagreement and debate. But there is one statement I make which consistently generates approval and consensus: "I never really know something until I have...