Catalogue of disaster
You suggest access to government records has improved since 1992 ("Pens poised, paper waits", THES, May 19). Until recently, after good access to Department for Education and Employment records for...
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Catalogue of disaster
It is distressing to read that papers are sitting in archives, effectively closed, because they have not yet been catalogued. One way round this could be to get librarian students on archival courses...
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Suspicious minds
Psychologist David Buss says "individuals diagnosed as 'pathologically jealous' often turn out to have partners who have strayed in the past, are straying or are contemplating straying" ("I love you...
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Up the minors
Geoff Watts's review of the Economic and Social Research Council "Children 5-16" programme ("Coping with mid-kid crises" , THES, May 19) was a useful reminder of the importance of children's own...
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On the trail of Down's
Down's syndrome diagnosis is changing. Clare Sansom looks at the latest techniques In the UK, about one baby in ten is born with some kind of abnormality. For most the defect is easily curable. But...
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UK biotech supremacy threatened
The UK biotechnology industry is the strongest in Europe, but the Germans are coming.Kam Patel reports A picture of a "pluralistic yet highly concentrated" system for the funding of biotechnology in...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
International history, I realise with hindsight, is a discipline strikingly bereft of Big Books, though it was unmistakably in thrall to Dead White Diplomats when I was an undergraduate. My degree...
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The battle over biology
Kam Patel talks to veteran zoologist Edward O. Wilson, whose controversial classic, Sociobiology , is 25 years old. The Harvard zoologist Edward O. Wilson has few regrets about writing Sociobiology...
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A dime for your sterling thoughts
It may not be a macho pursuit, but John Driffill could not resist adapting a major American economics text for European readers. Writing textbooks is not an activity universally held in high esteem...
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Everyone online, but who pays?
Universities and publishers should cooperate more if tomorrow's students are to be as well served for 'textbooks' as today's, says Mark Bide.The day of the "electronic textbook" has yet to dawn,...
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Seoul
Hundreds of leftist students demanded an end to the United States military presence in South Korea and called for a government condemnation of the bombing by a US jet fighter on a range near a...
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Cambridge opens Turkish talks
Cambridge University has entered into talks with Turkey's higher education authority to co-operate on internet tuition. Anil Seale, of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, has been in discussions with...
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Increase in black applicants
The number of black applicants for full-time higher education courses has increased by 3.3 per cent on last year, while the number of Asian applicants has increased by 2.6 per cent, according to the...
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Factors in good multimedia design
The players. The artists Artists generally work with static images to present a message or induce emotions. At times, the message may have many interpretations, and it is left to the viewer to form...
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Move to end funding split
Funding chiefs are considering a more common approach to resourcing further and higher education. The move aims to do away with "perverse" financial incentives for FE colleges to switch sectors as...