Bright spark
(Photograph) - Critics call them Noddy courses, but more and more students are opting for highly vocational study Eleanor Cundey started at Hyde Fabrications in Leeds in July as part of her...
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The road to a nation of business builders
While others are being encouraged to carve out their own careers by setting up in business. UNIVERSITIES must cultivate students' entrepreneurial spirit, higher education minister Tessa Blackstone...
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Patently lucrative
While others are being encouraged to carve out their own careers by setting up in business. While institutions have been slow to get into teaching their students to be entrepreneurs, most are having...
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Glasgow extends job link
While others are being encouraged to carve out their own careers by setting up in business. SIR Ron Dearing's emphasis on work experience has been boosted by Glasgow Development Agency's decision to...
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Tricksy evolution proves its worth
How do you create a sophisticated, clever robot? Let it evolve. So say researchers from the University of Sussex, who have "artificially evolved" the brains and the bodies of real machines
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Usage and abusage
Baroness Blackstone has ignored the advice that when you have got yourself into a hole it is best to stop digging. Why does she insist on taking a utilitarian view of science but not of other...
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Childhood trauma rings true
THE controversial topic of recovered childhood memories is being put under the microscope. Researchers at Royal Holloway and Bedford College of Higher Education have studied the case histories of 690...
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Slim girls and smart boys the gender ideals
YOUNG women believe "slim" is the key quality of the ideal women's body while for young men the ideal body is "handsome", "muscular" and "smart". Barbara Lloyd and Helga Dittmar from the school of...
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Smokers lost in a fug of mental confusion
SMOKERS in Britain overestimate their risk of suffering lung cancer by nearly three times. Research by Stephen Sutton at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London...
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Brainy Magnus sees a few of the options
FOR Igor Aleksander of Imperial College, London, artificial intelligence is only really of interest if it tells us something about human intelligence. Software, he says, can recognise patterns, such...
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Sensors on hilly learning curves
Contrasting approaches to simulated mutations and neural networks are transforming artificial intelligence EDINBURGH University's mobile robot group believes hands-on experience is essential in the...
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V-cs seek to simplify indicators
ߣߣÊÓƵn vice chancellors have rejected new quality checks proposed by the federal Higher Education Council and have called for a single, simple set of performance indicators that might be used to...
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Buthelezi backs disputed new bill
South Africa's controversial higher education bill was due to be placed before the National Assembly last week. The African National Congress's dominance assures its easy passage despite a failure to...
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Lecturers regard research as their top priority
LECTURERS have failed to respond to pressure from United States legislators and fee-paying students to devote as much time and effort to teaching as to research, according to a new study. Research...
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Italy in EU dock over ban
The European Commission is being called upon to take further action against Italy after 1,500 foreign-language teaching staff were excluded from the National University Council elections due to be...