Scots' lab resists move to York
An Aberdeen research consortium is making a last-ditch attempt to stave off the relocation of a laboratory to York as part of the reorganisation of the Agriculture Ministry's Central Science...
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Greens aid eco-centre reprieve
Edinburgh University has reprieved its threatened Centre for Human Ecology for a year, rejecting a management proposal to axe it in September. The university court, meeting on World Environment Day,...
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Alaska bound
With the fall of Soviet Communism, the threat of being sent to the Siberian salt mines may have receded. But there are still means of dealing with undesirables. A manager from the BP exploration...
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Bowled over
The prize for seasonal research activity of the week must surely go to New College, Durham, which celebrated the county cricket team's move to a new ground by holding a contest for exciting...
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By the book
There's one book which Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, has never got round to reading, although he says he has always meant to read it: the constitution of the NUS. "It's...
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Beyond their ken
Michael Moss, Glasgow University's archivist, drew a parallel in a recent lecture between medical education 200 years ago, when Glasgow Royal Infirmary was founded, and current proposed reforms. In...
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Water alert
Even worse than the scorpions in Oxford are the students. A three-man crime wave from Oxford was abruptly stopped by a police siege recently. Trouble was, when the police finally rounded up the...
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Sting in the tail
The maxim that there is no such thing as bad publicity seems to be in vogue at the Natural Environment Res-earch Council, as anyone who has just turned to June in the NERC calendar has seen. Pin-up...
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V-cs talk of deal on quality
The Higher Education Funding Council submitted its proposals for a single quality assurance agency to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, this week amid hopes that agreement had at...
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He's a jolly good. . .
The latest graduates' council magazine from Dundee University includes tributes to John Berridge, who has retired from the department of political science and social policy. One sounds rather...
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Sleek Greek
(Photograph) - Sleek Greek: Dimitris Katsanis, a Plymouth University engineering student, puts his revolutionary racing-bike frame through its paces. The lightweight cross-frame construction he...
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Forum to link FE
Further education could soon have its own quality assurance framework to replace the confusing array of requirements now in force. Fran Hulbert, national project director and regional education...
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Guildhall inquiry
London Guildhall University, which was found to have unlawfully victimised a black senior law lecturer last month, has set up an inquiry into "possible breaches" of its equal opportunities policy....
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No cash for five stars
University research departments receiving the new five-star grade in next year's Research Assessment Exercise should not expect any extra funding for achieving the highest accolade. Five-star...
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Rough rugger
Research at Edinburgh University has found that one in every four rugby players were injured in a single season, with the tackle most often associated with injuries. Michael Garroway of Edinburgh's...