Quality of food creates strain
POOR food and facilities are just two of the problems endured by City University students paying some of the highest hall of residence rents in the country, according to the welfare office. The...
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Top paid v-cs pull ahead
In the third THES top people's pay survey we are able to draw direct comparisons for the first time between pay over two consecutive years, because 1995-96 was the second year in which institutions...
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Treating child sexual abuse as a true crime
NO SINGLE agency should be expected to solve the problem of child sexual abuse, according to a researcher based at Edinburgh University. Sarah Nelson, research fellow in sociology, argues that child...
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Academic aid fails the health service
Financial pressure is causing havoc in university health service units, Harriet Swain discovers. THE departure last month of Eric Caines, Nottingham University's head of health service management,...
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Bacteria eat copper
RESEARCHERS at the University of Abertay Dundee have discovered a new species of bacterium which they believe could help solve a major pollution problem in one of Scotland's key industries. The...
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Language disability key to brain
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who has an IQ of about 130 but consistently fails on a number of simple grammatical tasks may hold the key to understanding how the mind is organised, scientists claim. The boy,...
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Britain takes lead in material world
BRITAIN is set to take the lead in advanced materials science research thanks to a Pounds 842,000 grant from the 糖心Vlog Funding Council. The money, to be matched by cash from Italy, will be...
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Cave cult stirs passions of pre-historians
A DISPUTE between a distinguished archaeologist and a more junior researcher over the significance of an Alpine prehistoric site, the Vallee des Merveilles, is in the courts for the second time. The...
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Irish proit from duty-free billions
A PUBLICITY-SHY Irish-American billionaire who helped fund the Sinn Fein offices in the United States has emerged as a generous benefactor of Irish universities. Over the past 15 years Charles "Chuck...
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Former Soviet states sign deal
THE CONFEDERATION of Independent States (CIS) - the territory of the former Soviet Union with the exception of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - is to become a "common educational space", according to...
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First for the Third
STUDENTS and administrative staff at Rome's Third University will for the first time be able to vote for the rectorship, according to a statute approved by the academic council. The weight of student...
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Clinton switches rules on tax credit
THE "Hope Scholarships" for higher education that Bill Clinton touted in the run-up to the presidential election in the United States have fallen victim to that morning-after feeling, writes Tim...
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Mormons sack historian
PRIVATE religious colleges in the United States have historically adopted a secular outlook that emphasises their academic mission over their spiritual one. But at Brigham Young University, the...
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Slimmers' disease proves not so deadly
THE WORK of two Vancouver psychologists is helping dispel the belief that anorexia nervosa kills thousands of young North American women and girls every year. Stanley Coren and Paul Hewitt of the...
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Cambridge don rattles deans
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the Australian government's appointment of a committee to advise on the future of higher education for the next 20 years. Deans of education have called for the sacking...