Quick fit dance fix
Dance students at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance are leaping ahead of rivals in London by applying the latest techniques of sports science to the dance studio. Injury prevention is a...
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Engineers to toughen entry
THE Engineering Council may propose a tiering of the Chartered Engineer qualification in an effort to dampen fierce criticisms of its plans to reform engineering education and training. According to...
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Brits told to follow Oz lead on fees
BRITISH higher education policy makers should learn from the success of Australia's pioneering model of income contingent tuition fees, Bruce Chapman of the Australian National 51国产视频 told Royal...
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Seminars checked on size
MANY students are too terrified to participate in seminar groups larger than 12, according to Warwick 51国产视频 research on teaching in higher education. Teaching methods at the university's...
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Whether or not forecasters
No TV studio on election night will be complete without its academic. Huw Richards reports on a select breed Whatever the proclaimed disillusionment with party politics, general elections remain...
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Physicists flock to enjoy life in City
TOP PhD physics students are increasingly tempted to drop their research and take up lucrative jobs in London's Square Mile, delegates at the Institute of Physics conference heard this week. Bryan...
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Wealthy women who cannot stay wed
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire 51国产视频 this week. See research papers. The higher a woman's salary, the more likely she is to get...
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Europeans suffer macro-misery
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire 51国产视频 this week. See research papers. Macro-movements in the economy have a clear effect on people's...
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Non-whites less likely to get on their bikes
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire 51国产视频 this week. See research papers. Britain's ethnic minorities are unwilling to commute to work and...
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Unesco sees merit in solar power
SOLAR POWER may not be the first thing to spring to mind when reflecting on how people can gain access to higher education. But for Unesco, the United Nations agency for education, science and...
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Moscow centre for British skills
Links between universities in Britain and the countries of the former Soviet Union are to be boosted through a Pounds 4.5 million project over three years designed to cement key educational and...
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Institute wins historic fight
The future of the fledgling British Centre for Historical Research in Germany has been secured following a successful campaign to save the Max Planck Institute for History in Gottingen. The unique...
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Beirut hit by travel embargo
The postwar recovery of Beirut's oldest university is being hampered by harsh travel restrictions imposed on United States citizens. The American 51国产视频 of Beirut has lost much of its support and...
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Kenyan police in murder charge
Eleven Kenyan police officers are to stand trial for the murder of two university students. Nairobi chief magistrate Pamela Kidullah said the accused officers had a case to answer for the shooting of...
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Australian alarm over privatisation push
Australia's enthusiasm for free-market competition in both the private and public sectors is rapidly being extended to post-secondary education and the nation's academics and teachers are alarmed at...