GM threat to US monarch reassessed
The potential threat posed to the monarch butterfly by pollen from genetically modified corn has become something of a green cause celebre in the United States. However, preliminary results of...
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Say a little prayer for your health
Saying a little prayer can make you feel good. Psychologists from Sheffield Hallam and Ulster universities have found the more often a person prays, the better their sense of well-being. The research...
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Sauropod skeletons found in Saraha
The discovery of more than 20 tonnes of dinosaur remains in the Sahara desert has exposed a remarkable survivor of a line of giant plant-eating sauropod. A team lead by Paul Sereno, a palaeontologist...
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When trust slips
Quality will not improve if complaints reform puts lecturers on the defensive, writes Frank Furedi Students arriving on campuses this autumn will have found they have larger classes, less contact...
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How to fight solitary confinement
WHAT: Watching fellow students solve problems is invaluable, says John Lee,but technology threatens to stifle such vicarious learning. WHY: Today's students spend less time on campus and more time...
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African academia ravaged by Aids
Deaths of academics from Aids are wiping out key areas of specialist knowledge in African universities in an epidemic that threatens to stifle regional development, Commonwealth leaders meeting in...
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Natfhe rails at 'endemic discrimination' in pay
Women academics earn, on average, Pounds 4,300 less than their male colleagues, according to figures released this week. At the London Business School, the pay differential in 1997-98 topped Pounds...
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Royal Society bid for more money to improve academic pay
The Royal Society today called on the government to provide more money to improve academic pay and conditions. Responding to the Bett report on academic pay and conditions, a Royal Society working...
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Conrad Russell
'He has recently said of power: "Like sex it is necessary and may be delightful. Like sex it is unlawful when not based on consent"' It is ironic that Conrad Russell should receive the largest number...
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On the move
Oona King, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, has been elected to the board of the British Council as vice-chair. She replaces Peter Mandelson, who had to forgo his recent appointment after being...
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Glittering prizes
Jurgen Baumert, professor of education at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has received the first European Latsis Prize, worth 100,000 Swiss francs (Pounds 40,000). The...
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The wall the Czechs built to keep the Roma away
Construction of a concrete wall to separate unemployed Gypsy families from the rest of the community is threatening to destabilise the delicate political balance of the Czech Republic. The two-metre-...
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Shady side of bright ideas
New Zealand is gearing up for elections. Bryan Gould looks at the sense behind ruling party slogans. It is all change in New Zealand. The white paper on tertiary education, which preoccupied the...
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Parties vie for votes with loan schemes
WELLINGTON With student debt standing at more than NZ$3 billion (Pounds 937 million), the student loan scheme will be a major issue in New Zealand in this month's general election. The key parties...
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Delhi School asks alumni for aid as cash crisis looms
NEW DELHI The Delhi School of Economics - regarded as India's equivalent of the London School of Economics, and where the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen taught in the 1960s - is on the verge of...