Fun guy cultivates a delicious business
A former PhD student has raised £175,000 for his company cultivating truffles after pitching the business idea on the BBC programme Dragons' Den earlier this year. Paul Thomas turned down money...
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It's no wonder the ladies needed smelling salts
It is amazing what passed for a surgeon's instrument in Victorian England. The "Vee-Dee electro-massage machine", an intriguing device that is likely to have caused much amusement more than a century...
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Fresh blow to federal future
University College London came one step closer to breaking away from the University of London this week when it decided to use its new degree awarding powers - granted in September and currently held...
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Ask the party doctor: Yes, boors with BO can make it
Wary of parties? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers advice on avoiding faux pas, while Anna Fazackerley discovers the secrets of a supreme networker Dear Professor Fernández-Armesto, I consider myself...
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Even a social animal had to learn to use the schmooze
Wary of parties? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers advice on avoiding faux pas, while Anna Fazackerley discovers the secrets of a supreme networker When scientist Nancy Lane graduated from Oxford...
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UCL researchers hope for a spark of chemistry on first date
Forget playing hard to get - researchers at University College London were this week encouraged to talk about the Big Bang on a first date, writes Anna Fazackerley. The university hosted its first...
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Research by public could be 'unreliable'
The increasing use of the lay public as researchers in studies on issues that affect them could be producing unreliable research findings, a conference heard this week. Social scientists at the...
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UK loses out to Asia on business cash
Funding of university research by UK businesses has stalled as companies plough more money into research in China and India, according to the Council for Industry in Higher Education, writes Claire...
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New test for medics
Thousands of medical and dental students could be sitting a new university entrance exam as early as next summer. The admissions test - the UKCAT - was set up by a consortium of more than 20 medical...
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Clinical teachers fret overVAT trap
A ruling by customs officers over tax arrangements at Glasgow University has aroused fears that hospitals across the country may have to pay tens of millions of pounds in VAT for the work of clincal...
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Prospects perk up with mentors
As the first in her family to go to university, Hannah Goff feels that everyone, no matter what their background, should have the chance to experience university life, writes Becky McCall. Ms Goff,...
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Report slams imprudent leadership at Maori college
New Zealand's most popular higher education institution is riddled with practices that are unacceptable in a public organisation, a report by the Auditor-General says. Bad record-keeping, poor...
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Paris
Peter Smith, Unesco's assistant director-general for education, has said that non-binding Unesco/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines on quality cross-border higher...
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Gaborone
Festus Mogae, Botswana's President, last week rejected a direct appeal by academics to allow political science professor Kenneth Good to return to the country until his teenage daughter completes her...
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St Petersburg
The British Council is closing its English-language teaching centre in Russia's second-largest city from April 2006 after the lease on its building ended and alternative accommodation proved too...