Indonesian spy schools to tackle terror threat
Indonesia is to open two new intelligence-gathering colleges in a move designed to improve regional and worldwide attempts to tackle international terrorism through better espionage. The institutions...
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Findings: Some shut eye aids learning
Sleep, not just practice, is critical to learning skilled-movement tasks, US scientists have discovered, writes Esther Ingram. In a study at Harvard Medical School, adults were trained either in the...
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Rethink doubles 6* winners
Thousands of academics will see their departments gain the top 6* rating as part of a funding council climbdown on research concentration. But the change will bring more kudos than cash. More than...
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Warwick puts two doctors in the house
Warwick University Business School scored a double first this week as a married couple passed their PhD vivas on the same day, for first time in its 40-year history. Argentinian husband and wife...
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A-level surge fuels transfers
Another rise in A-level pass rates and the highest ever proportion of top grades are fuelling the student transfer market. Admissions staff are being confronted with students shopping around for the...
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Appointments
* Caroline Baillie , currently seconded from Imperial College London to serve as deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at the University of Liverpool, has been appointed DuPont...
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In the news: Anthony McClaran
Anthony McClaran, acting chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, faces a test of his own this week. Not only is he experiencing his first results day in charge, but...
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Practice imperfect
How should scientific results be made public? Patrick Bateson launches a Royal Society probe Last week's intense media coverage about the risks of breast cancer associated with hormone replacement...
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Access scheme highlights need to target 16-year-olds
Influencing decisions made at 16, at the point where education ceases to be compulsory, is key to widening participation, says the first long-term study into the results of an access scheme. Maggie...
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Social class still counts after students reach 21
Why does Labour focus its access efforts on 18-year-olds when postgrad inequality is rife? asks Paul Wakeling We are not being told the whole story in the great widening participation debate. Welcome...
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Harry Kroto
Creating a culture of sustainability should be at the top of the agenda if we are going to win the war for human survival I am a champion of science, engineering and technology (Set) and how much...
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Students' storeys of woe
Who says students are getting soft? The following string of complaints recently landed on the Whistleblower's desk. Students at Westminster University are furious that their central London rooms on...
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Research record-breakers
The Diary offers its congratulations to biologists at Dundee University who, according to the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, have won more citations for their papers than...
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More cases of bodily harm
Not to be outdone by Dundee University, the University of Cambridge - which normally tops the league tables - has repeated the feat in its latest set of performance indicators. These show that last...
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Wild about melon
Scientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a product you never knew you needed: the reduced-calorie watermelon. While watermelon is traditionally seen as diet friendly, the...