Stargazers aid revolutionary DNA analysis
A team of British stargazers has shown biologists a new way to analyse DNA that could revolutionise genetic research and ultimately medical diagnostics. An advance developed to study light from...
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It's best not to be a sheep-shaker
Drivers who transport animals are to receive advice on how to avoid shaking sheep in a training video made by researchers at Edinburgh University and the Roslin Institute, which created Dolly, the...
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City's charity revamp seduces South Bank's leading lights
City University has poached two leading academics from South Bank University to join its new centre for charity effectiveness. Paul Palmer, former head of South Bank's centre for charity and trust...
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Flexible fellows take to the floor
Academic flexibility is taking a new twist as a team of scientists gets ready to work with choreographer Wayne McGregor in a scheme that brings together science and art. The £30,000...
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Hundreds left 'homeless'
Many new undergraduates were victims of accommodation shortages this autumn, with hundreds having to take rooms in hotels, according to the National Union of Students. Almost 200 Liverpool students...
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We must refuse to play this 'destructive game'
Academics must oppose the research quality assessment, say Paddy Scannell and Philip Schlesinger Sir Gareth Roberts' review of research assessment constitutes the most destructive set of proposals...
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Gary Day
'Russell Group? More like a group of rustlers. And, being English, they're not unlike that grotesque embodiment of social snobbery, Hyacinth Bucket' There's an exhibition at the National Gallery...
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Skin-deep skills needed
A neologism in the latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary has emerged from research by two Strathclyde University lecturers. Dennis Nickson of the Scottish Hotel School and Chris Warhurst...
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Everything is going swimmingly
The management at Coventry University seems determined to plumb new depths. Last week, deans and directors were sent a memo entitled "executive diving suit" inviting them to extend the university's...
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Terms of engagement
Perusing the annual accounts of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Diary can report a modest pay rise for Sir Howard Newby, its chief executive. In the year to March 31 2003, Sir...
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If you're not on the list...
Shady operators posing as Canadian universities and colleges have conned tuition fees from a number of potential foreign students. And some potential students who were subsequently issued with visas...
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Don's diary: dark days ahead
Monday Freshers' week: an academic springtime full of hope, expectations and eager students with a look on their faces that reminds me of first-year secondary school children before they become...
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Why I...think legal training has to change
In August, Barclays Bank estimated that students starting their degrees this year could expect to graduate with debts of more than £17,000. If, and when, the government introduces top-up fees, this...
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Lives on the rocks
Michelle Tytherleigh and Cary Cooper believe jobs in academia carry too high a personal price tag Ivory towers, working hours to suit and long holidays are just a few of the benefits of an academic...
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Journals weed out straw men
'Heretical' ecological views must be logical and cogent to merit publication, says Daniel Simberloff Philosopher Mark Sagoff has published his controversial theses on invasion biology in the American...