Alternative tweetments lined up for pets
Two Canadian researchers are widening the scope of veterinary medicine by putting the practice of alternative medicine for animals under scientific scrutiny. At the University of Guelph's Ontario...
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Hail the local hi-tech hero
New technology opens up a host of intriguing prospects such as home banking, video on demand - and a University of the Highlands and Islands. The UHI is conceived as a high-tech network of the region...
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For all creatures great and small
Roger Scruton's views will be unpersuasive to all who accept their moral responsibilities in relation to animals. Professor Scruton gets himself into an almighty tangle in his efforts to justify such...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
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Robbins revision
The Robbins principles which have underpinned higher education policy for the past 30 years should be updated, say the ministries responsible for education, in a paper to go to the Dearing committee...
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Jack Russell terrier
(Photograph) - Working like a dog: Jack Russell terrier Chester's hard work at the Royal College of Music has earned him a place in the Dogs at Work Awards finals. His job is to improve relations in...
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Business boost for China poor
A company president who suffered hardship is helping impoverished students. China's largest-ever scholarship fund for university students has been established in Beijing following a 10 million yuan (...
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Cash controversy
Students have condemned Cambridge University's decision to accept a Pounds 1.5 million donation from tobacco company BAT Industries. In a ballot of 1,711 academics, 1,128 voted in favour of accepting...
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Have cash, but can't spend it
Universities could be heaping up a multi-million pound "cash mountain" because funding regulations put them off spending the money, a leading vice chancellor warned this week. Big financial reserves...
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Head to head
(Photograph) - Head to head: Russell Bates, a student at Exeter University, admires the Henry Moore sculpture, "Reclining Collected Forms", which has gone on show at the university. The work, created...
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Students ponder Euro appeal
A group of students and former students expelled from their union by London's South Bank University are deciding whether to fight the institution in the European Court. Four students are considering...
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Genes means coming clean
If you want a quiet life, do not do research into the genetics of behaviour. If you do, be prepared to participate in the noisy life that will follow. The same rule applies to the funders of such...
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For all creatures great and small
As Roger Scruton argues that animals are "insensible", I cannot comprehend his statement that hounds and horses also experience "pleasure" in tearing a fox to pieces. Or is Professor Scruton...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...