Do the logo motion
The National Postgraduate Committee felt it time for a new logo full of get up and go. A handful of bright young things pitted their grey cells against each other to come up with a suitable design....
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Coastwatch cleans up
Chris Condron finds balancing sun and sex and avoiding sewage makes summer holidays a risky business OLD TYRES, medical waste, "sewage-related" debris and household furnishings are just some of the...
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Heading for the lust resort
Chris Condron finds balancing sun and sex and avoiding sewage makes summer holidays a risky business THE three As - alcohol, anonymity and accessibility - lead to young people being twice as likely...
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Kenya fails good grades
FINANCIAL problems and poor degree choices have resulted in recruitment problems at five state universities in Kenya. The universities have the capacity to admit 8,500 undergraduates out of an...
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All spy in the sky?
Is Chris Patten a double agent, leaking Britain's few remaining secrets to international spy Jonathan Dimbleby? Or has the whole thing been concocted by counterspy Mandelson to cover Government...
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Oxstalls campus reopening brings success in degrees for Gloucester
Plans for a University of Gloucestershire are back on track after the successful conclusion of a three-year struggle to bring higher education back to Gloucester city. Gloucester City Council has...
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Suffolk starts to do the business
The first tangible foundations for the proposed new University for Suffolk were laid this week with the launch of a Suffolk Business School, which is expected to become the business studies arm of...
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Title claim a Writtle excessive
An agricultural college bidding for degree-awarding powers has been criticised by quality watchdogs for the way it has used the title "university sector college". Writtle College, near Chelmsford in...
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Wheel of fortune
(Photograph) - Wheel of fortune: Nic Wood, a student in the industrial design department with applied technology at Sheffield Hallam University, checks a piece of tableware he designed for Harvey...
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Wales unveils devolution plans
THE University of Wales has finally published plans to reshape its federal structure by devolving more powers to its eight member institutions, writes Iola Smith. The intention, according to the...
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Green blueprint for Scots
A 26-PAGE Edinburgh University report printed on 100 per cent recycled paper hopes to encourage other institutions to green their teaching. In 1990, Edinburgh launched a strategy to become more...
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A little and large dose for medical schools
Last week two medical schools merged with Imperial College to form the UK's largest medical school. Soon St George's will be the only free-standing medical school left. Julia Hinde talks to the two...
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The Bard goes north
HOGHTON Tower is an impressive Elizabethan country house in the wetlands to the east of Preston , Lancashire, where it now seems likely that William Shakespeare, under the alias Shakeshafte, spent...
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School probes mole link to cancer
Chris Condron finds balancing sun and sex and avoiding sewage makes summer holidays a risky business PEOPLE with many moles on their skin should follow the example of the tunnelling rodent and keep...
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Antibodies bring cancer treatment hope
RESEARCH from Nottingham University's pharmaceutical sciences department has led to a bladder cancer treatment breakthrough.Scientists have developed antibodies that attack malignant tumours. The...