This way up
The most difficult question from the public that Robert Williams, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, has had to answer came after the publication by a US newspaper of a spectacular...
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Sole sisters
For those who wonder what special qualities were needed by the women who broke into traditionally male dominated areas of work, a hint comes from the Edinburgh International Science Festival's tours...
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Natural Resources Institute to cut 140 staff
The Natural Resources Institute, which supports the United Kingdom aid programme by helping developing countries improve productivity, is to lose 140 staff, its owner the Overseas Development...
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Seda recognitions
The Staff and Educational Development Association says it has been approached by 36 UK institutions of higher education seeking recognition for their training programmes for new teaching staff. Seda...
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Yiddish row ends
The row over the running of Yiddish studies in Oxford appeared to end this week as the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies said that "differences" between the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish...
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Nurse training deal
Vice chancellors and National Health Service officials have reached an agreement over new arrangements for nurse training. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and the NHS executive are...
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Adults courses budget up 20%
Institutions running adult education courses outside further education colleges received a 20 per cent increase in funding from the Further Education Funding Council between 1993/94 and 1994/95. The...
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Active minds keep atrophy at bay
A combination of good education and continuing mental activity may help delay the onset of dementia, according to psychiatric researchers. A report from the Erasmus University in the Netherlands in...
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Funders forced to rethink quality
An acrimonious public row erupted at the annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week when quality - which had originally been left off the agenda - took centre...
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Magnet cash
A five-year magnet research programme has got Pounds 12 million of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The programme aims to stimulate collaboration between...
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Alternative GPs
Family doctors are being taught about the benefits and dangers of complementary medicine in an Exeter University course believed to be the first of its kind in Europe. The joint initiative by the...
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Physics fillip
Aberdeen University has set up a new school of physics more than a decade after cuts turned physics into a service teaching unit. The school will teach engineering, bio-medical physics and bio-...
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Testing time
(Photograph) - Testing time: Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, an engineering lecturer at Cambridge University, finally got rid of his L-plates on his 13th driving test last week. The 40-year-old passed with...
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Public `paying for commercial research'
Universities are leaving themselves open to the accusation that they are "subsidising commercial work from the public purse" by not recovering costs from externally sponsored research, Graeme Davies...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a ubiquitous naturalist: "As far as we can tell, our planet is the only place in all the black immensities of the universe where life exists. We are alone in space....