Lizards grow alone
If a planet like earth exists elsewhere it would probably have the same species on it, the British Association heard. Evolutionary biologist Paul Harvey, of Oxford University, said that DNA testing...
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Coal packs poisonous punch
Pollution from Chinese coal-fired power stations is comparable to that produced by volcanic eruptions, the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Newcastle University heard last week....
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Name your religion request in Ulster
Students at Further Education colleges in Northern Ireland are being asked to reveal their religion when applying for courses. Managers at the colleges say they are only implementing a government...
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Quake students head for hills of Wales
Twenty Japanese students, whose studies were severely disrupted by the Kobe earthquake, will arrive in Wales later this month to take up university places in the principality. The five postgraduate...
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Tory tussle on savings
Education and Employment and the Treasury emerged in a leaked confidential Whitehall paper last week. The draft paper prepared for Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment,...
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All stressed up to go, go, go
Stress is good for you, former higher education minister Tim Boswell told the massed ranks of Britain's academic external relations professionals. Asked for his tips on stress management, Mr Boswell...
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Monk building for future success
Assessors from the Royal Institute of British Architects will step into the nerve centre of a new Pounds 2 million teaching complex at Luton University next July to assess the final year's work of a...
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Distance is Wye's objective
Few students of Wye College will ever set foot in the small Kent village of that name in future. The reason is that the agricultural college of the University of London plans to double student...
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Dundee's pastoral care
The University of Abertay Dundee is validating a certificate of pastoral ministry aimed at lay people working for the church in the Roman Catholic dioceses of Dunkeld, Galloway and Motherwell....
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The training scheme jobless
Nearly three-quarters of unemployed adults on the Government's Training For Work programme were still out of work three months after completing the course, according to Training and Enterprise...
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Aroused Rowse goes into historical action
A. L. Rowse is 91, but like his fellow nonagenerian Lord Denning, he is never afraid of saying something controversial. Next week, he brings out Historians I Have Known where he attacks (and...
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Building collapse
Southampton Institute has cancelled a part-time construction degree, leaving 32 students with no prospect of completing their course and no legal redress. The institute says in its prospectus that it...
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Rockpooling
(Photograph) - Rockpooling: James Cuttingham, one of 35 academics from nine universities in Georgia, United States, visiting Northumbria University last week on a staff-student exchange arranged by...
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Law schools feel squeeze
University law school heads have condemned proposals for tight restrictions on postgraduate courses for trainee solicitors. A call from Martin Mears, the new president of the Law Society, for a cut...
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58-point checklist of good practice
It had to happen. Borchester, the nearest thing the neverending radio soap The Archers has to the sinful city, now has a university. And it is just the kind of university that fits the dramatic...