Robot built to lend a hand in knee operation
Mechanical engineers at Imperial College are developing a robot that promises to help surgeons lessen their reliance on an array of jigs and fixtures and achieve greater accuracy when carrying out...
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College closures floated in Ulster
Ulster's further education colleges - already reduced from 24 to 17 after a series of mergers - should be cut again, a report from the province's economic council has urged. The report on Northern...
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Licence to rent urged
Nearly half a million students living in the private-rented sector stand to benefit from proposals to be submitted next week by the National Union of Students to the Department of the Environment....
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Class Act
(Photograph) - Class Act: Savourna Stevenson taking one of a series of master classes with the clarsach, a traditional Celtic harp, at the Celtic Connections festival run by the University of...
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Sud's lore
More academic soaps nominated by Mary Bryden of the faculty of letters and social sciences at Reading University - for literacy courses Bookside, for communications Home and A Way With Words, for...
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Short-sighted
Those wanting to know how the Association for Colleges got that way now have a simple answer - they are all visionaries. A staff training day devoted to finding the best ways of working together...
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Dino saw
Neil Clark, curator of paleontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian museum, has a reputation as a leading commentator on dinosaur fossils and eggs. So much so that the Bearsden and Milgavie Courier...
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. . . and narrow
Suggestions that Americans might be a touch parochial have received support from an impeccably American source. That distinctly lively journal, Lingua Franca, points with horror to a Carnegie...
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Finance is colleges' weakness
Management failures of the sort that affected Derby Wilmorton and St Philip's colleges are atypical of the further education sector but there is still room for improvement, a National Audit Office...
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Visions of a healthier state of mind
Psychologists staked their claim in the consciousness debate this week when they held a press briefing at the Royal Society entitled "Consciousness: its place in contemporary science". Theirs was the...
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Rector retires early
The rector of the University of Westminster is to retire nine months earlier than expected at the end of 1995. In a letter to staff, Terence Burlin, who has spent 33 years at the university, said: "I...
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GNVQ sackings
More than 100 external verifiers employed by the Business and Technology Education Council to evaluate the quality of vocational A levels in 130 schools in the south-east have been sacked after just...
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The broad . . .
Both journalists and press officers are warned of the pitfalls of categorical statements that something is "first" or "unique". Much wiser to point to less tightly defined concepts - a lesson they...
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Vlad all over
A serious contender for the happiest academic around this week is Robert Service - not the Canadian poet, although displaying similar expertise on frozen wastes as professor of Russian politics and...
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Admissions vote
The University of Oxford's college representatives were due to meet yesterday for a vote on scrapping the admission exam.