Hi-tech future in reading tea leaves
State-of-the-art imaging techniques that can watch lesions form in heart disease and pinpoint where aluminium sits in tea leaves have come together in a single centre at Cambridge University, which...
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Merrily high
Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Participants in the Slovenian studies day held on Saturday at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London's Senate House found it tolled for them, and...
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Asthmatic laboratory staff win damages
Four former Glasgow University technicians who gave up their jobs working with laboratory animals after developing asthma have been awarded damages totalling more than Pounds 200,000. The three men...
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Clean image draws girls to engineering
The dirty image of engineering, said to repel girls from choosing it as a career, is disappearing with the new generation of computer-literate children, a conference heard yesterday. But women still...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication The service is...
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Rooker attacks loss of entry data
The Government came under fire this week for scrapping the collection and publication of data on the proportion of school-leavers from state and independent schools intending to enter higher...
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Lords of the faculties
Three academics are among the 11 life peers announced last week who will bolster the main parties' working strength in the House of Lords. John Sewel, vice principal of Aberdeen University and Robert...
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Scottish opera school hits Lottery jackpot
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is set to open a new opera school to mark its 150th anniversary in 1997, with the help of Pounds 2.5 million from the National Lottery. The college's...
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Research spend
Industrial expenditure on R&D in 1994 increased by 5 per cent to Pounds 9.5 billion in cash terms compared to 1993, according to figures published this week by the Central Statistical Office....
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Rich pickings
Wealthy, white and well-connected students are still much more likely to succeed in the law than their less well-heeled peers from ethnic minorities, according to a survey published by the Law...
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Bargaining battle
The Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the university and college lecturers union, have hit a stumbling block in their talks over single table pay bargaining. Leaders of the two unions...
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Poverty protest
The National Union of Students organised a march to protest at increasing student hardship on Thursday. At a rally in Kennington Park, London, NUS president Jim Murphy said: "We are calling on the...
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Allocations increase
The Further Education Funding Council published its funding allocations for 1995/96 this week. The provisional allocations, confirmed this week, were published in the THES on the May 26 this year. In...
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Men's sex drive led to the naked ape
As the days get colder, and you long for the early days when humans were covered in fur like other mammals, consider a new theory which blames the loss of our hairy covering on our sexual urges. The...
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Rich elite to get richer
The English funding council took its first step towards linking funding to its controversial teaching asses-sment exercise this week by announcing that the allocation of Pounds 4 million through a...