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  1. Token gesture

    Following a couple of hiccups - such as not spotting BSE and the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease - the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, formerly known as the Ministry of...

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  2. It's good to chalk

    Two years after the Oxford University Natural History Museum replaced its blackboards, the switch is still causing uproar and is debated hotly at high-level university strategy meetings. The old...

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  3. Relaxing regulations?

    Academics brought to the end of their tether by endless red tape and bureaucracy can expect a sympathetic ear from the Cabinet Office review of university regulation. The Cabinet's Better Regulation...

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  4. No room for rage

    Tempers flared at the University of the West of England last term. Rod Coleman, director of the modular scheme at the univer-sity, last week issued the following memo on changeovers between sessions...

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  5. Take train to less strain

    Postdocs keen to pay off their student debts might be interested to hear of the job deals available at South West Trains. The company, which has recently been plagued by strikes by members of the...

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  6. Principal promotion

    Bill McKelvey, director of operations at the Scottish Agricultural College since 1999, has been appointed its chief executive and principal. Professor McKelvey, pictured above, is an expert on...

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  7. Geneticists must win public trust to succeed

    Britain's research biologists want to find out how life works and they want to defeat deadly diseases. But as the House of Lords heard this week in a debate and select committee hearing, these aims...

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  9. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about the working class: "'The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row'." The winner receives a £25...

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  10. End of a polar pantomime

    Max Jones reconsiders the roles of the Antarctic/Arctic adventurers. The extension of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition on the race to the South Pole testifies to a contemporary fascination...

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