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(Photograph) - A visitor to the new British Library sits on Bill Woodrow's bronze sculpture, Sitting On History. The Pounds 511-million library was formally opened by Her Majesty the Queen yesterday...
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Scotland calls for adviser of its own
SCOTLAND's Royal Society of Edinburgh wants a chief scientific adviser for Scotland in post by the time the new Scottish parliament is set up. The Garrick committee, the Scottish arm of the Dearing...
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Whitehall told to open science
THE Royal Society is urging the government to make public all scientific advice it receives unless publishing it is against the national interest. In its submission to the House of Commons science...
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Rhyl mums united
There is very little difference in terms of support, feelings and emotional health between partnered and lone mothers, according to a Bangor University study. Clare Winger and her team from the...
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Super crimebuster
Police in Cleveland are hoping to predict crime patterns through a study conducted by a superintendent seconded to the University of Teesside. Superintendent Ashley Blackett, Cleveland police head of...
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Pious pioneer of the pen
The diaries of Lady Margaret Hoby reveal the everyday life and religious devotions of a wealthy heiress and landowner in Elizabethan North Yorkshire. Joanna Moody of York University has edited The...
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Globetrotter guides tropics to profits
RETIREMENT is generally seen as a time to wind down from work. But not by Janet Sprent, deputy principal of Dundee University and an internationally respected biological scientist. Once she retires...
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Livestock vaccine to aid Africa
MORE than a million African livestock could be saved from death every year as field trials start on a new vaccine that could revolutionise the lives of poor farmers. An international team of...
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Certain animals have an innate genetic resistance to disease
Certain animals have an innate genetic resistance to disease, an international team of scientists has found, Olga Wojtas writes. About 10 per cent of Africa's 170 million cattle belong to potentially...
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Alarm at slump in students
Australians are turning away from higher education in their thousands, with applications for university places down this year by more than 10,000. Figures released by the Australian Vice-Chancellors...
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BJP aims to 'rewrite' history
Indian historians identified with the destruction of a mosque six years ago have been given a dominant role on the country's official body for historical research. Eighteen eminent members of the...
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Mayor's sons accused of cheating
The sons of the mayor of Buenos Aires in Argentina have been accused of using their father's influence to better their exam results at the city's university, writes Rebecca Warden. The faculty of law...
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White doctors leave South Africa
ALMOST HALF the doctors who graduated from one of South Africa's top medical schools, most of whom are white, work abroad, according to a report. The finding follows a government announcement that...
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Women's lib in Asia
AN INDIAN academic who held The THES Exchange Fellowship in 1997 has carried out a comparison of the legal status of women in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Uma Devi, reader in law at Sri...
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Belarussians seek places abroad
Efforts are being made to find places abroad for students excluded from Belarussian universities on political grounds. But places at universities in Russia are being refused because it could be...