Findings: Winning ways of the weasel
Weasels might not seem the ideal creature to have as a pet but the Romans may have preferred them to cats, writes Steve Farrar. Bones excavated from the city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the...
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Analysis: When the dons awake...
Cambridge's ancient system of governance is ripe for change, but its academics fear their influence will be eroded by administrators and the governing council. Phil Baty listens to the rumblings of...
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Students sue as MBA fees increase fourfold
Ten MBA students are suing their university after it quadrupled tuition fees three months after they were accepted on the programme. They argue that the University of British Columbia should not...
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Sex harassment case ends with settlement for professor
A case of sexual harassment at the open learning University of South Africa (Unisa), involving council chairman McCaps Motimele and former English professor Margaret Orr, has ended with the chairman'...
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Clinton set take over on campus
Being a former member of the Clinton administration seems to have become a prerequisite for running US universities, writes John Marcus. Richard Celeste took office this summer as president of...
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Scientist arrested over trade espionage
A researcher has been accused of stealing trade secrets from a US university laboratory, the second such case in as many months. Yin Qingqiang was arrested while trying to pass through a security...
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E-learning solves resource problem
Nigeria is combating a dearth of academic books and journals through a national virtual library project that is set to serve 18 study centres across the country. The Nigerian minister for education,...
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Positive use of negative
It could be interpreted as another wheeze linked to the research assessment exercise, but The Diary is assured that a new publication, The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine , has been...
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Plight of the navigator
A former lecturer in marine navigation has had to be rescued by a lifeboat after getting stuck on a sandbank. Yachtsman Peter Mitchell was stuck for seven hours upstream from Sunderland Yacht Club on...
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When size matters
Swiss scientists have worked out the average dimensions of a European nose. At the age of 30, the average European man's nose is 5.8cm long and sticks out 2.6cm from the face. For a woman of the same...
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For the Farterland
Nose picking, farting and belching in public are rife in the UK, according to a survey by London's Science Museum. More than a third of the 6,000 people surveyed said they picked their nose more than...
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News Crisis in science: can universities do more to woo students back to maths, physics and chemistry? Features BA Festival of Science: why Leicester's role in the space programme makes it the...
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Can they justify their £750m JIF awards?
THES staff assess the Joint Infrastructure Fund's impact. When the Joint Infrastructure Fund was unveiled by the Office of Science and Technology and the Wellcome Trust in July 1998, it sparked a...
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Findings: Branding on the brain
It seems the marketing gurus were right all along - the human brain has a special way of processing the brand names of products, writes Steve Farrar. In particular, those brand names that keep a...
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Parents who delay separation depress students
Unhappy couples who wait until their child has gone to university before splitting up may be contributing to growing depression among students. The annual student wellbeing conference hosted by...