Warwick leads as others follow
Universities are rushing to copy Warwick University's prestigious Pounds 10 million research fellowship scheme, launched last year to attract 50 top scholars. Among its imitators are old universities...
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Drugs get needled by the body
Research on what the body does to drugs, rather than on what drugs do to the body, is to be developed at Manchester University as a result of a newly-launched centre. The research should strengthen...
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Traffic controls on info-highway
Oxford Brookes and British Telecom have quelled fears that an unchartered route on the information superhighway could become jammed and unmanageable with the development of a new regulating device....
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Formula One car design breakthrough on computer
Formula One car designers have turned to Exeter University researchers for help in creating their latest track-hugging racing machines. The Italian Minardi team describes its 200 mph M195 model as...
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Swansea's lucky Jim
(Photograph) - Swansea University lecturer Jim Hawes, pictured right, is watching the advances for his first novel A White Merc with Fins rise steadily towards six figures as it is sold around the...
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Students fall for Gallic charm
Academic posts in French are booming, especially at professorial level, after a two-year decline, according to an analysis of advertisements in The THES. Mike Kelly, professor of French at...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. "A characteristic feature...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. "In terms of British and...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. On May 8 European heads of...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. This victory" (pauses for...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. Great Britain was probably...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. On the first morning of my...
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To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. Whatever you do, don't...
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Dogmas and pet theories
Rupert Sheldrake, regarded as a heretic by many biologists, argues for experiments that he believes could revolutionise understanding of the mind. The still-dominant paradigm in institutional biology...
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The scenic view
Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...