Elixirs of life
In 1990 the cost to Britain of Alzheimer's disease was estimated at up to Pounds 3 billion a year. There is no reversing this cruel illness, which robs sufferers, literally, of their minds; the...
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Improved table manners
All universities are equal, but some are more equal than others, as George Orwell might well have said. When The Times first imported the idea of league tables designed to inform the public on the...
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The age of the oldie
If you care enough, you can keep a vintage car going indefinitely. When it stops, you strip it down, fix any broken parts, or fabricate new ones. But the human body, alas, is not like that. It cannot...
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Fellowships
Institution of Electrical Engineers. Honorary fellows of the institution: James Porteous, chairman and chief executive of Yorkshire Electricity Group (1990-92), vice president of IEE (1992-93),...
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Racing start
THE NEXT Damon Hill could be female, if a motor racing research project finds the winning formula. Judy Eaton, a lecturer in gender and psychology at Coventry University, is studying the social and...
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Sharpe shooting
NEXT WEEK sees the gripping finale in ITV's swashbuckling adventure series Sharpe, with Sean Bean starring in the re-creation of the Battle of Waterloo. One viewer with more knowledge than most of...
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Families still come first
ESRC's population and household change programme will inform Government on welfare reform. Early findings below. THE FAMILY has survived enormous change to retain its central position in most British...
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Fender warns governors
Tony Tysome on the background to the latest move in the Southampton Institute saga Southampton Institute governors have been told by funding council chiefs that the institute faces "significant risks...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
SHAUN COLE, advanced fellow in cosmology at Durham University, is not a union member. "It doesn't cost much to join, but I am not quite sure what I would get out of joining," he said. "In terms of...
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Keele staff cut to plug gap
Staffing levels at Keele University's modern languages department could be halved to help plug a Pounds 400,000 funding gap. The dozen or so remaining staff would be expected to cater for existing...
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Natfhe chief suspended
LECTURERS' union Natfhe this week suspended its general secretary John Akker pending a disciplinary hearing into claims of incompetence. Mr Akker was suspended from his Pounds 58,000 a-year job on...
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Cash by results funding on table
A radical new way of funding higher education which would do away with the distinction between part-time and full-time students is being considered by Sir Ron Dearing and the new Government. It could...
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Get a PhD, get a suit, get a job, have a fling
(Photograph) - Get a PhD, get a suit, get a job, have a fling. People who have degrees are more likely to have affairs. People with PhDs have more clout in the job market than they know. Students...
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HM paves the way for loan reform
A reform of the student loans system was promised this week as education led the list of legislation in the coming Parliamentary session unveiled in the Queen's Speech. Two education bills were...
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Proof that greens are good for you
SCIENTISTS trying to isolate the gene which gives Brussels sprouts and other greens their cancer-preventing characteristics are on the verge of enjoying the sweet taste of biotechnological success....