Simulated journeys to centre of the Earth
Experts on the Earth's interior met this week to battle out one of their unsolved questions: what is the temperature of the Earth's core? The answer could shed light on how the Earth formed, on...
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Job cuts spark strike threat
Lecturers at Chelmsford further education college are threatening to take industrial action over an "unfair" programme of cuts which will make about one in six teaching staff redundant but leave...
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Twenty-first century power
(Photograph) - Twenty-first century power: Bob Hill of Northumbria University and its newly solar panel-clad building, which he believes will prove that the sun can make a valuable contribution to...
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Debt and the maiden workers
The cost of getting a steady job means that graduates who get permanent work within six months of taking their degree have on average nearly Pounds 1,200 more debt than those who are still on the...
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Research cash shortfall
Oxford University is filing a complaint to the Office of Science and Technology over the research councils' handling of claims for research project costs. The university says it has lost Pounds 3...
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Governors told to be more open
Universities should model their governing machinery on the "old" universities with staff and student representation, open systems for nominating governors and all decisions except those concerning...
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Help for contract staff
Proposals for the career management of contract research staff in universities are close to being finalised by the research councils. Kenneth Edwards, chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Funders delay quality plan
Vice chancellors are facing further delays before they can discuss the Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality body. The funding council is committed to...
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Net users take fast line to new jobs
Use of The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S Internet Service increased by half as the online service, offering job advertisements, summaries of the newspaper's contents, and other resources, entered its second week. The busiest...
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Students lobby on cut
Mature students from across the country lobbied MPs at the House of Commons this week on the abolition of their special allowance in the budget. A spokesperson for the National Union of Students,...
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Scottish lead way on credit-based courses
Scotland is leading the way in quality assurance for credit-based education through its pioneering national credit accumulation and transfer scheme, SCOTCAT. The scheme's Quality Assurance Handbook,...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Appointments at the Academy of Medical Sciences
New fellows elected to the the AMS on April 1 2001. Dr Timothy John Aitman , M.R.C. Clinical Scientist, Honorary Clinical Reader and Consultant Physician, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a chemist: ". . . This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of the me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question...
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Speaking Volumes: Tom Paine's Pamphlets
Harvey J. Kaye on Tom Paine's Pamphlets. I have testified in these pages and elsewhere to the influence upon me of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Barrington Moore's Social...