Culture of convenience from where women sit
Public loos, computer games and trainer envy will all be debated at this week's British Sociological Association conference, reports Claire Saunders. When Cardiff Council planned to build a public...
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Scientists take precautions
The way scientists think about their work is changing with the new "precautionary principle" of trying to minimise environmental hazards, according to the chairman of the Royal Commission on...
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Colleges join federal express
Two new university colleges were created in Wales last week when Cardiff Institute of Higher Education and Gwent College were accepted into the Federal University of Wales. The new institutions will...
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Euro project goes fishing for clues
A European research project led by British scientists could help to determine the threat global warming poses to freshwater fish such as salmon and perch. The danger to fish of climate change was...
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Hitting the buffers
Robert Sheldon MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, made a declaration to an audience of vice chancellors this week. He said: "The Universities Funding Council is a splendid buffer." The...
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Jenkin's email
(Photograph) - Jenkin's email . . . Colin Hempstead of Teesside University's school of human studies is to head a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project on the life of Fleeming Jenkin, a founding...
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Paying Peter
Delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference could have looked a little closer for value for money from its general secretary Peter Smith. Figures just released for 1993...
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Book early
A new business opportunity seems to have arisen for unscrupulous publishers wanting to make the most of the next research assessment exercise. The exercise will take account of articles and books...
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Russia with love
The Post-soviet Press Group of London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies has answered the perplexing question of why diplomats are exempt from HIV-tests under Russia's new laws...
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Keyed up
John Maynard Smith, speculating on the appreciation of music at a conference last week, described his friend J. B. S. Haldane, eminent scientist, philosopher and one-time Communist Party member, who...
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Sales pitch
To comfort himself when he cannot get enough money for the Hubble telescope, Dr Williams reads about his favourite explorer, Scott of the Antarctic. He obviously takes heart from Scott's similar fund...
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Review to broaden options for 16-19s
The Government has launched a review of qualifications for 16- to 19-year-olds which could transform courses preparing young people for higher education. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for...
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BTEC diploma phaseout halted
The Business and Technology Education Council has shelved its programme for replacing National Diplomas with new "vocational A levels", writes Tony Tysome. In a letter to college, school and local...
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ALT to embrace all aged 14-19
A blueprint for a unified qualifications framework for 14- to 19-year-olds will be unveiled today at the Association for Teachers and Lecturers' annual conference. Delegates are to debate the union's...
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Redundant academic ruling defied
The Robert Gordon University has rejected an industrial tribunal ruling to reinstate the first academic made compulsorily redundant in Scotland. Earlier this year, the tribunal ruled that the...