Blunkett proposal
The Labour party is preparing to publish proposals to broaden the A level and improve standards on General National Vocational Qualifications courses, David Blunkett, the Shadow education secretary,...
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ME breakthrough
Patients disabled by ME improve more quickly with psychological treatment than with basic medical care alone, according to researchers at Oxford University. In a paper in tomorrow's British Medical...
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MRes popular
The new masters degree in the theory and practice of research introduced last year on a pilot scale has proved to be more popular than expected, according to science minister Ian Taylor. Research...
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Do not put yourself through the mincer, couch potatoes told
Nanette Mutrie of Glasgow University has a message for the couch potatoes whose New Year resolution is to get fit after the excesses of the festive season: take it easy. Dr Mutrie, senior lecturer in...
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Too many scientists for too few posts
The United Kingdom produces as many science and technology graduates as its competitors, but only a minority opt for a career in science, according to a report by the Institute of Employment Studies...
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Lecturers register record stress levels
Anxiety and depression affect further education lecturers more than they affect the police, vicars and nurses, psychologists have claimed, writes Aisling Irwin. A study of a further education college...
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Cabbage technology
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to provide Pounds 600,000 for research aimed at developing environmentally friendly technologies. Projects include devices for generating...
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Global greeting
The Natural History Museum is pressing ahead with a Pounds 12 million Development of Earth galleries after winning Pounds 6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The London museum, which has...
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Powder puff
(Photograph) - Powder puff: The Rake's Progress by Hogarth inspired an exhibition called "Theatre". It includes stage design by students from Central St Martin's and costume design by students from...
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Prostitute professor unrepentant
A part-time professor who admits that he also works as a prostitute will be back in class on Monday. Gerald Hannon, an instructor at Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnic University was suspended at the end...
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Lottery fails to dent giving
Claims that the National Lottery would strangle donations to medical research are contradicted in the 1995 financial results of major research charities. The incomes of the Imperial Cancer Research...
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Space probed
SCIENCE. Charles Darwin's face gazed out of a lot of newsprint in The THES this year as sociobiologists went public over their controversial work, which they now regard as firmly based in science....
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Budget leaves nip in the air
FUNDING. Academics have been moaning about cheese-paring for years, but this was not the alternative they wanted. The old Soviet-era joke about the state of Russian agriculture - "About average -...
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1995 AD: Anno Darwinis?
The year began with an interview with academic and writer Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature. Soyinka, who spent months in jail for promoting peace with breakaway Biafra...
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Pay on Labor'selection agenda
AUSTRALIA. This was the year that universities in Australia grappled with enterprise bargaining. Urged on by federal government, academics and administrators on every campus spent months negotiating...