Charity urges big trial of breast cancer drug
The Cancer Research Campaign has appealed to all breast cancer experts in the United Kingdom to take part in a huge trial of the drug tamoxifen, writes Aisling Irwin. The trial, which aims to reach...
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Mine safety students could be a gold mine
Mine safety has come a long way since the caged canary and Sir Humphry Davy's lamp. But who would have thought that the coal industry would be clamouring for its professional rescue service to be...
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Hard drive needed
Bill Lindsay of Strathclyde University's education faculty has warned that a teacher recruitment drive "of dramatic proportions" is needed to underpin Labour leader Tony Blair's vision of providing...
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Wellcome to Glaxo
Fifty scientists from the Wellcome Foundation, the drug company which merged with Glaxo, are to set up a project at University College London that will eventually cost Glaxo-Wellcome Pounds 10...
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Maxwell moves
Maxwell Irvine, who became principal of Aberdeen University in 1991, has been appointed vice chancellor of Birmingham University from October 1996. He will succeed fellow physicist Sir Michael...
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New site floated
Plymouth University, in association with property developer Peaston Ltd, has purchased the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, at a cost rumoured to be about Pounds 30 million. The university...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper, including Multimedia and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The...
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Gwent offers cash incentive
British colleges have stepped up their recruitment drive in Ireland and one - Gwent College of 糖心Vlog in Wales - is offering bursaries worth Pounds 800 each to first-year students. The...
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Whites-only row for Rhodes
Ten Rhodes scholars from southern Africa have arrived in Oxford to begin their studies and there is not a black face among them. Members of the Rhodes Scholarship Southern African Forum, which...
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Libraries need Pounds 27 million
The Conservative Government needs to find more than Pounds million for university libraries if it is to offset the huge drop in spending levels since Margaret Thatcher first took office, according to...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a friend of Einstein's who was similarly handy with equations: "'The youth that was I', you may come to speak of him in the third person, indeed the protagonist of...
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A sacrifice on the altar of aporia
The Gift of Death
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A toolbox of deadly spanners
Dits et Ecrits 1954-88 par Michel Foucault - Dits et Ecrits 1954-88 par Michel Foucault - Dits et Ecrits 1954-88 par Michel Foucault - Dits et Ecrits 1954-88 par Michel Foucault
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Broader is better for Scots
The Revival of the Democratic Intellect
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Crafty Babylonians
Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries