Electric touch
(Photograph) - A plasma globe at the Herstmonceux Science Centre near Hailsham in East Sussex responding to touch. The centre occupies the telescope domes abandoned by the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
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Centre for whether we are what we eat
The Medical Research Council is setting up a resource centre for nutrition research in Cambridge employing up to 70 staff.
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Meningitis vaccine in the pipeline
The Department of Health, the Meningitis Research Foundation and National Meningitis Foundation has launched a meningitis awareness campaign. A vaccine is in the pipeline.
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Get virtual, v-cs urged
Vice-chancellors hold their annual meeting in Manchester next week. Tony Tysome reports. British universities are facing "very serious challenges" from global and corporate competitors, vice-...
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Cash carrot to enforce training
Lecturers may be pressurised by their employers into joining the new Institute for Learning and Teaching. Next week vice-chancellors will consider a draft prospectus that says that the proportion of...
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Meaning of ILT membership
Membership will not be mandatory - for the time being. However institutions could make membership a condition of employment or promotion. The objective is for all institutions to provide an...
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Scotland steams ahead
Scotland is leading the United Kingdom in its progress towards national education and training targets. The annual report from the Advisory Scottish Council for Education and Training Targets says...
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Nip into Tesco for a byte on the Internet
Tesco supermarket in Guildford has embraced the lifelong learning revolution and is to set up a "Unicafe" - a distance-learning Internet cafe for part-time students- with the University of Surrey...
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Harvard lager label row
A ROW is brewing over the use of the name "Harvard" on a beer produced in New England, writes Jon Marcus in Boston. Lowell Brewing Co. Inc. says it has merely revived a lager produced from 1898 until...
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Face-to-face
(Photograph) - Indonesian students clashed with police in Jakarta this week when they called for the resignation of President B. J. Habibie, who replaced President Suharto, following weeks of anti-...
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Physicists seek long-term relationship
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council last week published a long-term technology plan for closer relations with industry. It also cites technical advances, such as a successor to the...
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Blair gives extra cash to recruit nurses
The government has promised an extra Pounds 60 million next year to fund 6,000 new training places for nurses and help address a staffing crisis in the National Health Service. The money, announced...
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Latecomers put paid to tuition fees scare
More people have applied to higher education after getting their A-level results than last year, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Despite tuition fees, 9,069 new...
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Belt and shades for computer bods
Prototype cuddly toys that "recognise" people and wearable computers in the form of belts and sunglasses are among products that could find their way on to the market soon, according to the...
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Drugs research guru claims unfair job loss
Controversial drugs researcher Martin Plant aims to take Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College to an industrial tribunal, claiming unfair dismissal. A preliminary hearing to determine whether a case...