All quiet on the quantum front
Heard the one about the lab with a black hole? Caroline Davis reports on the latest in wave physics. Nothing can escape a black hole. Its gravitational pull is so strong that all matter and energy,...
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Cutting Edge: Tony Martin
One of the world's unsung endangered species, the river dolphin, can be saved given sufficient funds and the political will. Male pink dolphins make nocturnal forays into the small human communities...
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Agony aunt: Jargon busting
Q: I am confused by the jargon and acronyms my university is using when inviting funding bids for teaching and learning projects. Is there a guide through the maze? A: The main national sources of...
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Star Turn: Jonathan Levie
Who were the entrepreneurs of the gold rush? The pick and shovel makers. Olga Wojtas takes a lesson in money-making Jonathan Levie is in Glasgow. Julian Lange is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Together...
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How to: Break the ice for newcomers
WHAT A graduate school at the University of Manchester has found that student peer mentoring is a huge success WHY Mentors gain valuable skills and mentees are shown the ropes, say Carole Keeling and...
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Israel opts to halve college tuition fee
An Israeli government committee caved in to pressure last week and halved university tuition fees for the country's 200,000 students. The concession was welcomed by the office of beleaguered prime...
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Academics taught how to woo firms for cash
The University of Central Lancashire is to teach its academic staff how to woo industry and win commercial business in a £30,000 training scheme. Courses in areas such as business skills, negotiation...
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Virtual courtroom prepares vulnerablewitnesses
Computer scientists at Nottingham University are creating a "virtual courtroom" to help prepare vulnerable witnesses for real-life questioning by barristers. The move follows changes in the law...
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Music is the food of love @...
Colour images of priceless, fragile and rarely seen medieval music manuscripts held in repositories across the United Kingdom are now available through the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music...
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Critics spy strings in the name game
An identity change is sweeping over Canadian business faculties as they continue to name themselves after major benefactors. About a fifth of the 55 business faculties in the country have either...
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IT news in brief
High wired Loughborough University has completed a £1 million five-year project to provide high-speed internet access for all its hall-based students. More than 5,100 rooms in Loughborough's 15 halls...
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Apple of Mac's eye honoured
Jonathan Ive, the designer who refashioned the personal computer with his Apple iMac, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of civil law by the University of Northumbria. Mr Ive, vice-president of...
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Spanish to design next chip
Computer multinational Compaq and Spain's Polytechnic University of Catalonia are to set up a centre in Barcelona to design microprocessors. The new research laboratory, known as Barcelona Systems...
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In the information wars, we are on the front line
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
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Working is a class issue
Having a job in term-time is not just an academic problem, it has implications for access policies, writes Robin Humphrey. A recent study of undergraduate students covering all seven faculties (...