Welfare state
John Webster, chair of animal husbandry at Bristol University, told a meeting last week about the time his first application for research into animal welfare was rejected. He received the following...
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Scratch and sniff
Another great British invention has been filed at the Patent Office. Benjamin Simon has made a dual-purpose toilet roll -- it also deodorises the air. He has coated the inside of the cardboard inner...
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Honey for tea
Don Paterson is Dundee University's fellow in creative writing -- but then, you could probably work that out when reading his article in the staff newsletter on his creative writing workshop, which...
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Take your partners
Aberdeen University, which celebrates its 500th birthday next year, is planning a host of celebrations throughout the world. These include a ceilidh at Edinburgh's Murrayfield rugby stadium: with...
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Shifting goals
Breakfast television has more to do with higher education than you might imagine. Those willing and able to watch The Big Breakfast at 7.25 of a morning will see blindfolded celebrities trying to...
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Nasty taste
Sideswipe no 93, is from Frederik Pohl's Drunkard's Walk (1960), sent in by Robert Dingwall, of Nottingham, set in a sci-fi university. "One needed a change of scene from the Halls of Academe every...
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Drawing with care
(Photograph) - work of members of an industrial education unit went on display at Queen Mary and Westfield College Gallery last week to raise funds for the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association,...
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Three-man race for CVCP
The contenders for the post of chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals threw their hats into the ring last week. Peter Toyne, vice chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University...
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Libraries' book cash halved
The years of Conservative government have witnessed a steep decline in university library spending with money spent per student on books and periodicals falling by almost half, according to a...
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Faith fashions economy models
A mixture of faith, fashion and prejudice is what Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ultimately to fall back on when taking advice from economic forecasters, according to a study...
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Nirex urged to use peer review
The Royal Society has urged the nuclear waste disposal firm, Nirex, to open its scientific programme for the building of an underground radioactive waste repository in Cumbria to national and...
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Nutkin goes back to the wild
Returning red squirrels bred in captivity to their natural habitat is the aim of a Pounds 98,000 release programme being co-ordinated by the Zoological Society of Wales at Colwyn Bay. Supervised by...
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Last bastion falls to the box
The last sizeable westernised culture to be without television will get it next January -- and researchers will be there to observe the effects. A team of researchers from Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Volcano ash chokes planes
When Mount Galunggung in Indonesia erupted in June 1982 a British Airways passenger jet flew into its plume. The engines were choked by the ash and the aircraft fell thousands of feet before the...
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Smiles better
(Photograph) - Anthony Clare gave this year's Happiness Lecture at the University of Birmingham last week. He may have failed to enter into the spirit of things completely since his title was "The...