European schemes to model climates
Two European schemes to model climates, PROVOST and ELMASIFA, have achieved 70 per cent success in local forecasting.
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Boring life of sleepy American students
Thirty-six per cent of first-year United States students say they have been bored in university or college, according to a survey. And that's the good news. As many say they slept through it. The...
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Flower power
(Photograph) - A Bangladeshi girl places flowers at Dhaka's Shaheed Minar in memory of the four university students shot in 1952 for demanding official language status for Bangla in the former state...
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Promotions
Royal Holloway, University of London The title of reader has been conferred on J. Michael Wilson, atomic physics. University of Wales College of Medicine J. H. Lazarus, former senior lecturer and...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities Professor E. Maher, Pounds 58,905 from the Wellcome Trust (molecular pathology of Beckwith-Wiedemann); Professor S. Busby and Dr S. Minchin, Pounds 176,308 from the...
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Rocket range
(Photograph) - The Queen's Tower at Imperial College, London, one of the big winners in the 1998-99 allocations.
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Strong arm of the law
(Photograph) - Strong arm of the law: Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial photographs, including depictions of sado-masochistic sex, have been deemed "obscene" by the Director of Public Prosecutions...
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Fact file
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 12 per cent of graduates with degrees in creative arts and design were unemployed six months after graduating * 11 per...
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist on the move
Britain's 1997 Nobel prize-winning chemist John Walker is leaving the Medical Research Council's laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge to take over as head of its Dunn Nutrition Unit.
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Pounds 300m bill for overheads
Research councils should pay universities up to three times more in indirect costs for research, consultants Coopers and Lybrand may recommend, writes Julia Hinde. The consultants have been re-...
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Anglia hate letter probed
A hate-mail campaign against six academics who have supported complaints of bullying and nepotism at Anglia Polytechnic University is to be investigated by the university. A desk-top published "...
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Research elite lift off
TOP research universities will gain in this year's higher education funding round which makes cuts of less than 1 per cent per student overall. Research is proving the launchpad for a small band of...
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Academic freedom brought to book
A court battle over academic freedom is expected to follow the seizure of a book from a university library that has been deemed obscene by the Director of Public Prosecutions. University of Central...
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Failure to follow advice deemed 'parasitic'
The Natural Environment Research Council this week was taken to pieces by the Public Accounts Committee over the construction of the Southampton University's Oceanography Centre. The committee,...
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Student mobility in Europe under scrutiny
A House of Lords committee has launched a high-speed inquiry into student mobility in Europe. The starting point is the European Commission's plan for the development of community-wide higher...