Bladders open to help fathom currents
A flotilla of "inflatable bladders" that helped map deep ocean currents has led oceanographers at Southampton University to discover defects in global weather forecasting computer models. Southampton...
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Breast milk danger
DANGEROUS levels of chemicals found in breast milk may trigger cancer, scientists have found. The chemical pollutants DDT (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) have...
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Colour sight probed
How the brain perceives colour is under study by scientists at Keele University to help improve image transfer on the Internet and develop robotic vision. A team, led by Stephen Westland in the...
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Colour sites guide
Researchers at Reading University have completed a series of projects into how colour and tone contrast in the built environment can help partially sighted people navigate better and identify...
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Pasta detectives' deal
Scientists who found a way to detect pasta impostors have signed a licensing agreement with a national food diagnostics company. Kits for detecting poor-quality wheat substituted into durum wheat...
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Winds' effect on winters gauged
A transatlantic collaboration could soon be under way as scientists try to shine new light on the weather phenomenon responsible for bringing Britain its recent run of wet and warm winters. American...
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Breakdown of the cash
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has allocated Pounds 3,867million to institutions this year - representing a 2.7 per cent increase of public money in cash terms but a real-terms...
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Revoke student ban - Leakey
Opposition politicians in Kenya have delivered an ultimatum to public universities to re-admit all students expelled over the years for their involvement in pro-democracy demonstrations. Led by...
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Monash toehold in Malaysia market
MALAYSIA has granted Monash University of Australia a licence to establish a campus in the country. After two years of negotiations, Monash will open its seventh campus - its first outside Australia...
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Savers penalised for parsimony
INDIAN higher education's longest-running controversy - the funding of universities - has been given a new twist with the University Grants Commission's plans to link the grant to average expenditure...
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'New' Danes grow
THE number and proportion of "new" Danes - immigrants and refugees from non-European Union countries and their children - entering higher education in Denmark is growing. Figures from the University...
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Outfoxed by wily opponents of a ban
The adult population of the United Kingdom is, by any accepted democratic criteria, opposed to hunting foxes with hounds. By "any accepted criteria" I do not mean focus groups. Nor do I mean opinion...
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Death-knell for nepotism
ITALY's lower house has voted by a crushing majority to end centralised national exams for the assignment of university posts and to allow universities to choose their own academics. The bill, now...
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Reforms still possible in Germany
GERMAN state representatives could still block higher education reforms approved by parliament because of the ruling Christian Democrat/Liberal Democrat coalition's refusal to enshrine in law a ban...
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Quest to find roots of slave trade
Academics involved in Unesco's Slave Route project have called for a reform of European archives on the slave trade. Most of these archives are kept in Europe (France, the Netherlands, Portugal,...