Unesco aids peace plan
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has signed an agreement with Unesco to establish an international school for molecular biology and microbiology for peace. The school, initially operating in ten-...
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Opposition to German loans with 8% charge
The German government is considering charging up to 8 per cent interest on student loans as part of a wider plan to reform the student subsistence grant. The money generated would be redirected to...
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Northwest research wall falls
The education ministers of Bremen, Flanders, the Netherlands, Lower Saxony and Northrhine-Westphalia have drawn up an action plan to stimulate regional collaboration in higher education and research...
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Radar test spreads wisdom
Dental academics have adapted a test to check radar operators' skill in spotting enemy aircraft to examine their students' clinical competence. The receiver operating characteristics analysis system...
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Fingerprints by magnet
Police forces have been rushing to buy fingerprint technology developed by a University of Wales professor, that has been on sale for the past three weeks. The new method produces much clearer...
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The cool way to shape chocolate
More than 20 years of fundamental research by Cambridge University's Malcolm Mackley on the behaviour of plastics during extrusion has led to an unexpected and remarkable breakthrough in chocolate...
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NVQs pass tough admissions test
ATHES survey has found a cautious welcome for NVQs and GNVQs in higher education despite the teething problems. Tony Tysome reports. Britain's most controversial qualifications have been given a...
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TEC debt writ large for colleges
Four further education colleges are poised to sue the Employment Department over its handling of the collapse of a London training and enterprise council. The colleges have asked lawyers to begin...
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You dirty rat queen
Zoologists have discovered a mammal whose queen uses sheer force of personality to suppress the fertility of most of her subjects. The queen of an African mole rat colony spends her time pushing and...
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Ulster dream in limbo
A secret report has said the planned Pounds 98 million "peaceline" campus in West Belfast is not economic. The confidential document, which has enraged senior academics at the University of Ulster,...
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Industry eyes on leading edge
Scientists who pay serious attention to forging links with industry are not necessarily more successful at doing so than those who see their research role as exclusively academic, according to a...
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Dundee unveils institute
Five teams of researchers at Dundee University are to investigate the causes of stroke and Alzheimer's disease in a new Pounds 1 million research institute. The university, Scottish Enterprise...
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Howler competition
"Once more unto the beach, dear friends". The 1995 Howler Competition is hereby declared open. Entries to The THES by July 28, bottle of Chateau Antithesis to the winner.
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Pulling strings
(Photograph) - Pulling strings: Hugh Walker, principal of Anniesland College in Glasgow, meets some of the learning aids in the college's higher national diploma in puppetry. The new course, Scotland...
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Pulp students
Move over, Quentin Tarantino. Edinburgh College of Art this week presented the work of its final-year film and television students. Among the highlights: "unexplained bodies in the street, blood-...