Dearing team dream
Huw Richards takes a look at the people who could (and who should) be involved in running the Dearing inquiry A senior Department for Education and Employment official will be the secretary of the...
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Call for sub-committee
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has called for a Scottish subcommittee to be set up, chaired by a full member of the Dearing inquiry. Scottish bodies have this week been...
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Welsh cut just 2%
Welsh universities and colleges have suffered an overall real-terms cut of 2 per cent in their funding allocations for 1996/97, and some have taken reductions of over 5 per cent. Figures released...
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Talent leak due to low pay
Poor pay and low status have to be tackled if careers in science are to be made more attractive to young people, according to a report out this week, writes Kam Patel. The study, Contract or Career?...
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Insecticide: Christopher O'Toole
(Photograph) - Insecticide: Christopher O'Toole, entomologist at the University Museum in Oxford, has just published a book, Alien Empire, exploring the lives of insects and how they affect humans....
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On the trail of Einstein's wave
British and German astronomers are joining forces to build a device to detect gravitational waves, one of the few predictions by Einstein that has so far eluded confirmation. Gravity waves are...
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Danger in appliance of science - Klug
Royal Society president Aaron Klug has warned the Government against over-centralisation in setting priorities for the science base. Sir Aaron said this week that the over-emphasis by Government on...
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Cut to the quick
The search for cuts is reaching new heights at the Open University where noticeboards are carrying an advertisement for the post of guillotine operative.
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Cold snap
Temperatures in the Heriot-Watt University lecture theatre housing the conference remained stubbornly icy, much to the astonishment of delegates who sent the following message to the conference...
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OU favours firm approach
Business school executives at the Open University are introducing company-style seminars in a move which could make the good old tutorial a thing of the past. This summer, the 1,250 first-stage...
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Death, as we know it
The Persistence of Purgatory
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Life, but not as we know it
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Krishna as divine Michael Jackson
Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia
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Cleanliness and godliness
The Religious Culture of India
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Faithful voices
The Word of Islam