Worm work wins medal
Howard Atkinson at the University of Leeds has won the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England for his work on tiny worms called nematodes, which cost world agriculture $100...
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Fears over flood of racism cases
The growing caseload of compensation claims against allegedly "racist" university and college employers is alarming education managers. They fear an increasing number of frivolous industrial tribunal...
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UK research spending lags but still bucks the trend
The United Kingdom is defying the international norm by increasing research and development expenditure, according to statistics produced by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Move to protect 'unique' subjects
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is considering "limited protection" for departments which are unique in Scotland or whose subject is considered vital. The council has already warned...
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Double vision
(Photograph) - Double vision: Colleagues have presented Harold Hankins, who retires at the end of this month after 12 years as principal and vice chancellor of UMIST, with a portrait of himself by...
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Scots worried by self satisfaction
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's 24 latest quality assessments have yielded one excellent, one unsatisfactory, 13 highly satisfactories and nine satisfactories, compared to self...
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Queens denies Irish flux
Queens University has attacked an MP's claim that Northern Ireland school leavers are being forced to go to mainland universities because their places are being taken by students from the Irish...
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A book for the bobby on the beat
"Well, Sarge, I was proceeding in a westerly direction down Green Street when I was struck by this matrix management theory." This might seem an unlikely storyline for ITV's police soap The Bill, but...
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Theft charge
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
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Spin doctors
(Photograph) - Spin doctors: Lynn Ross, course tutor on Arran for Strathclyde University's senior studies institute, fingers Scotland's contribution to a weaving project for the United Nations fourth...
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Small firm winner
The Department for Education and Employment has launched a Pounds 1 million training initiative to help small firms. Groups of ten or more companies are being invited to bid for awards of up to...
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Gender clash
The National Union of Students' women's campaign group is set to clash with the Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir over racial, lesbian and gay and women's issues at a rally in...
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History changes its course
History departments are abandoning broad-based degrees in favour of ones with more local, socio-cultural and modern courses, according to a survey of 53 universities. The survey, published in History...
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Cornish campus shortlist
Exeter University is pushing ahead with its plans for a Cornwall campus despite the cap on higher education expansion. The project's steering group this week announced a shortlist of 12 sites,...
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Research cash announced
The "golden triangle" of London, Oxford and Cambridge has lived up to its title in the latest cash allocations announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for 1995/96. The...