Asia-Pacific push
Nottingham Trent University has created a Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies to develop research, teaching, community and commercial links with the region. NTU has franchised degree courses in Malaysia...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Tim Lang describes how it feels to be an adviser to government. Last month's extraordinary...
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Lead poisoning
The lead "scare" began in 1974 when Michael Moore, a doctor based at the University of Glasgow, found widespread poisoning of Scottish families from lead plumbing. Children in Glasgow were twice as...
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Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Scientists critical of the Government have been enjoying a field day over the latest BSE...
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Policy advice
Governments cannot avoid having an energy policy. But British governments have consistently formed policies by their inability to find or take good advice. An example is energy pricing. Rising prices...
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Lab dogma disputed
The Research Defence Society said this week that there has been uncritical acceptance of "antivivisectionist dogma". It has launched a campaign to show the role of animal research in medical advances.
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Waging war
The minimum pay debate divides economists, John Davies reports The minimum wage in the United States has been $4.25 (Pounds 2.85) an hour for the past five years. President Bill Clinton wants to...
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Atlantic crossing scheme sets off
The European Commission is set to launch a radical student exchange scheme designed to strengthen relations between the European Union and North America. The five-year scheme is a key part of the...
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LGU shaves off Pounds 5m
London Guildhall University governors have accepted the recovery plan aimed at saving the financially threatened institution Pounds 5 million over the next three years. Following the decision last...
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Early retirement package for teaching staff at University of Westminster
An early retirement package is being offered this week to 54 teaching staff at the University of Westminster, writes Stuart Livingstone. The move comes a month after the university senior management...
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Britain lags behind in language teaching
Foreign language teaching in the United Kingdom has improved little in more than 30 years and is far inferior to that offered by many of our European competitors, a leading linguistics expert has...
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Heavenly metal: Rachel Price
(Photograph) - Heavenly metal: Rachel Price with "fluid vessel", created after master craftsmen Erich Simmerman and Michel Pfister from Germany ran a workshop for students from Sheffield Hallam...
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The profile of a TV Crewe
"Oh yeah, Ivor Crewe - so he's the vice chancellor as well, is he?" A taxi pulling away from Essex University may not be the fairest sample, but most vice chancellors are lucky to be recognised in...
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Going for gold now more of a gamble
A leaked draft of the Bannister report on sports scholarships has confirmed that universities will have to compete for National Lottery money for students. Members of the committee, which is headed...
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Colleges plan to enrol children
School pupils as young as 14 could be enrolled on to the first stage of degree programmes if a radical scheme under discussion in Yorkshire gets the go-ahead. Talks are beginning between further and...