Emotional wins
Football fans undergo the same emotional processes as their sporting heroes following a win or a loss, psychological research has suggested. According to Sandy Wolfson, a principal lecturer in...
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Got your number
The solution of a mathematical poser that has baffled experts for 30 years has been hailed as an important breakthrough in number theory. Researchers have made the discovery concerning Gollnitz...
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Culprit caught
A mysterious virus has been identified as the culprit behind a devastating plant disease that blights the lives of many of the world's poorest farmers. The microbe, carried by tiny mites, is thought...
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Grand plans
(Photograph) - pianos were delivered to the Royal Academy of Music's newest premises. The restored building at York Gate, London, was bought with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant. It has state-of-the-...
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Complaint rejected
Want to blow the whistle? Contact Phil Baty on 020 7782 3298 or email phil.baty@thes.co.uk 'I'll tell you what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that I should be reinstated to teaching. It doesn't say...
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Sound hazard
DNA inside living cells may be damaged by low levels of ultrasound. Preliminary research by a team at University College, Dublin, found that some particularly sensitive cells in the guts of mice were...
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Risk is now an option
Teacher of entrepreneurship Jay Mitra wants to change the UK's mindset. Pat Leon reports. The Rover car crisis and consecutive interest rate rises must have dampened the spirits of budding...
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Small is beautiful
Full-time entrepreneurship courses at the University of Central England tend to attract mostly foreign students because of the focus on small and medium-sized enterprises, the multi-ethnic community...
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Star Turn
Problems understanding radars? Melody Mellor discovers that it's as easy as knocking out a fluffy bunny and downing a wee dram. Desmond McLernon takes a sip of whiskey as the students shuffle to...
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Keeping tabs on student absenteeism
Brendan Hodgson, director of undergraduate studies at Durham University's computer science department, first heard about the Arcade system through the grapevine. "I went and visited John Latham in...
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Not forgotton
(Photograph) - Not forgotton: Greenwich University was today opening an art gallery in memory of Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered in 1993. Permanently exhibited will be a double portrait of...
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Worry over costly councils
Further education leaders and politicians have warned that the proposed new Learning and Skills Councils regime may amount to a "reinvention" of expensive Training and Enterprise Councils. Plans for...
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Poor students to get big welcome
Golden hellos of up to Pounds 1,000 a year will be offered to young university hopefuls from poor backgrounds. Education secretary David Blunkett this week announced details of a Pounds 10 million...
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Anderson leaves Oxford to rejoin Imperial
Roy Anderson, the distinguished British epidemiologist, has resigned his chair at Oxford University after four months of rows and inquiries. The scientist is to return to Imperial College, London,...
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CBI wants gongs for trainees
Not enough bright people are joining modern apprenticeship programmes, resulting in high drop-out rates and low levels of attainment, said captains of industry this week, writes Tony Tysome. More...