Take your lab to the sample
Something the size of a stamp can monitor the oceans, Giselle Weiss reports. David Barrow fishes in his shirt pocket for a sliver of clear plastic the size of a postage stamp. What look like rows of...
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Sources of research funding
Each week we list funds available for researchers.Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ALCOHOL EDUCATIONAND RESEARCH COUNCIL www.aerc.org.uk Research and Action Project...
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Alcohol study is 'boosting drinking'
Cautionary stories about binge drinking by university students in the United States have had an unintended effect - they may be making students drink even more, according to a coalition of 21 higher...
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Hefce rule change causes 'dirty tricks'
Funding chiefs have been accused of sparking a "dirty tricks" recruitment war and jeopardising standards in a late attempt to bump up this year's student intake. The Higher Education Funding Council...
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University of Wales, Lampeter
The University of Wales, Lampeter, may have to scale down its range of subjects and activities after a dramatic drop in enrolment. Vice-chancellor Keith Robbins has warned staff that the university...
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Cow power
(Photograph) - Maitland Mackie, chairman of the Aberdeenshire-based dairy company Mackie's of Scotland, has donated historic local Milk Marketing Board records to Aberdeen University. Alan Knox,...
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Scotland leads rest of UK in widening participation
Scottish universities have a better record on widening access than the UK average, and are also improving faster, according to the latest figures. The UK average for young full-time entrants from...
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How to apply for a grant
A successful grant application involves time, effort and a good idea, Paul Wymer writes. As well as being demonstrably "the right stuff" in their own field of activity, academics must also be...
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Buenos Aires
The rector of the Universidad de C"rdoba has become Argentina's education minister after the resignation of Juan Jose Llach. Hugo Oscar Juri said he would puruse his predecessor's reforms. Llach...
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Ottawa
Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy is leaving politics after years in elected office to take up an academic job as director of the new Liu Centre of International Affairs in British Columbia...
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San Raphael
South America's first telescope designed to respond to instructions from internet users will be placed in one of the world's optimal sites, near the Argentine town of San Raphael in Mendoza.
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Kosti
Two people died and several were injured in riots in White Nile state, Sudan, when students demonstrated against military conscription. Banks were burnt, the television station attacked and...
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Sacking of fiery US coach sparks riots
The firing of Indiana University's basketball coach has provided fresh evidence that university athletics in the United States has an almost religious status. Bob Knight was sacked after allegedly...
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Northumbria staff balloted over job threat
Staff at Northumbria University are to be balloted for industrial action over the threat of about 140 job cuts. A spokesman for lecturers' union Natfhe said there were fears of compulsory...
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Cambridge University
An article in The THES (September 22, page 18) by Paul Surtees on the lack of female firsts at Cambridge University should have referred to students with high grades at S levels gaining first-class...