Probe for minefields
Engineers at Warwick University are looking at ways to help deal with the international problem of clearing anti-personnel land-mines. The work, funded by charities and the Engineering and Physical...
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Lice and statistics
Scientists at Strathclyde University are working on ways to tackle the growing problem of sea lice on fish farms without damaging the delicate ecological balance in Scottish sea lochs. Sea lice cut...
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Pravastin put to test
Investigators from Glasgow University, Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Cork and Leiden Universities are starting the first study of the effects of pravastin, a medication widely prescribed to prevent...
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People key to profits
Firms that concentrate too much on technology at the expense of people lose out, according to research from the London School of Economics. The study, for the Institute of Personnel and Development,...
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Resistance held in animal genes
A new class of antibiotic resistance gene has been discovered by scientists in Scotland. It may help to explain why some bacteria are immune to medicines despite containing none of the previously...
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Sports courses hit by eating illnesses
Students on sports-related courses are more likely to suffer from eating disorders than other students and the population at large despite learning about nutrition as part of their degrees. Diane...
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Anger as foreigner fills v-c vacancy
AFRICA. The appointment of the University of Botswana's new vice-chancellor - the third since it was founded in 1982 - has caused controversy because she was recruited from outside southern Africa....
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Kenya sends graduate aid
AFRICA. Kenya is sending its unemployed university graduates to help reconstruct the civil-war ravaged countries of central Africa's Great Lakes region. Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic...
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South African exam disaster
AFRICA. Many South African universities and colleges will have to consider lowering their entrance criteria for students following disastrous school-leaving results last week. More pupils failed than...
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It's not what lecturers do, but how they say it
The sister of a faculty member at the University of Washington recently ran a search on his name on the World Wide Web. The first thing that came up was his student ratings - the spot verdicts passed...
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Pressed to get a good read
UNIVERSITY presses are rejecting scholarly works with poor sales prospects in the United States and urging academics to write in a more popular style. This has left aspiring young professors in...
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Scramble for students on full fees
Universities in Australia will be forced to recruit thousands of fee-paying students at home and overseas over the next three years to make up for funding cuts. An education department report for the...
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Universities reopen to the sound of chattering teeth
CANADIAN university students are returning to lectures after weathering the worst ice storm to hit the country in 150 years. Three weeks ago, five days of rain coupled with below-freezing...
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Red tape checks research surge
Italy's National Research Council is under attack for being top-heavy, wasteful, insufficiently productive and too centralised. A radical reform of the council, which controls research centres...
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Benefits cushion for change
THE House of Lords is considering the detail of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill to reorganise student loans and give ministers power to make universities charge students fees at a set level....