Law's green border terrier
The fall-out from the Chernobyl disaster propelled Phillipe Sands into international environmental law. This week he will make legal history representing Hungary against Slovakia. Graham Lawton...
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Should adults be allowed to indoctrinate children in any way they choose?
Should adults be allowed to indoctrinate children in any way they choose? Nicholas Humphrey argues that society has a duty to protect the young from bad ideas by teaching them science 98% of the...
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Physics faces age crisis
THE INSTITUTE of Physics has warned in its submission to the Dearing inquiry into higher education that the age profile of academic staff in university physics departments presents serious problems...
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Sussex probes mechanics of learning
HOW DOES a student's background affect the way he or she learns? The mechanics of learning will be central to a large consortium-based project being led by anthropologists at the University of Sussex...
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Collections aid public image
UNIVERSITIES wanting to strengthen community relations are recognising that museum collections can be valuable public assets. The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, which belongs to Glasgow University...
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Weak grounds for coffee fears
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle If coffee was our worst vice, we would be in fine shape, says a leading medical academic...
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Split over logging
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle SUSTAINABLE management of tropical forests may cause more environmental damage than...
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Does your lab need a helping hand?
(Photograph) - Does your lab need a helping hand? Deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine unveiled an 'incubator' for corporate ventures in biosciences at Manchester University this week. But...
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Tiller girls shortage
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle STRICT segregation of the sexes may have played a part in the decline of Athens, a...
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By hook or by Crooks
(Photograph) - By hook or by Crooks: 22-year-old Lara Crooks has become the University of Wolverhampton's first deaf student to achieve the National Pool Lifeguard qualification. She trained with the...
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Unions hail pensions climbdown
MINISTERS have postponed changes to early-retirement payments for lecturers in colleges and new universities in a climbdown heralded as a campaigning triumph by teaching unions. The proposed changes...
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Freestyle policy limbo for students
Thousands of university students all over Italy are in a bureaucratic limbo because law courts, legislators and university authorities have failed to adopt a common policy on limited admission to...
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Students return to science...
University science courses have escalated in popularity, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for 1997 entry. Record numbers of applications for...
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Students return to science ... but shun West Midlands
The North West Midlands is suffering a bout of unpopularity among prospective students according to an unofficial league table of applications that will dismay admissions officers in the region, A...
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EU in bid 'to enslave nature'
The foundations of scientific research are being threatened by a proposed new European directive that may lead to the patenting of all of nature, according to British scientists. In a letter to the...