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John Davies scans the schedules for programmes of academic interest. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Politicians experiencing first-hand what they pontificate about - that's the idea...
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Why learning to destroy is learning to enjoy
Once the realm of techie males, engineering is at last attracting female students. And it's all thanks to an aggressive TV show, Robot Wars. Anne Sebba reports When Mike Duke, senior lecturer in...
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The building of a time machine
Charles Babbage staked everything on his attempt to build the first computer, and lost. Overcoming similar problems, Doron Swade is about to meet the Babbage challenge 150 years on A few years ago a...
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A new stage in Greek tragedy
When Fiona Shaw played Electra in 1982, the audience was moved to tears. Can we learn more from such a performance than we can from studying a play's text? Jennifer Wallace reports on an emerging...
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A varied syllabus with nothing at its core
In the future, lecturers in English will be reduced to teaching grammar to economists and engineers, predicts Valentine Cunningham in the second of our series on subjects after the year 2000 English...
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Tariff trouble
While applauding UCAS for developing the new tariff project, there is a significant omission. Access courses, taken by many mature students preparing themselves for entry to higher education, are not...
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Black and white
I read the article by Nadia Lovell ("A case of mistaken identities", THES, December 10) with sympathy but no great surprise: she has unfortunately become a victim of political correctness in one of...
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Exchange debugged
Your article on a United States technical college spending $130,000 on a Y2K disaster plan ("US goes Y2K 'nuts'", THES, December 24/31) was only the tip of the iceberg. By the same token, the US is...
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Religious rethink
In his review of Joseph O'Keefe's Catholic Higher Education at the Turn of the New Century, part of a seven-volume series on international issues in higher education ("The appearance of incoherence...
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Tel Aviv
Israel's education ministry has launched a programme to enable students with low matriculation grades to be accepted by some of the country's universities, after a preparatory year at the Open...
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Guatemala City
Most of the 296 passengers on a Cuban DC-10 jet that crashed on landing, killing at least 26 people, were Guatemalan medical students studying in Havana returning home to spend Christmas with their...
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Teramo
Law students at the University of Teramo presented their theses and graduated before a commission of academics - one of whom was connected via computer from a hospital bed in Bologna, 600km away,...
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In brief
Your readers might be interested in the latest salaries for junior economics lecturers in United States universities now that the international hiring meeting has ended. In top US economics...
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In brief
Barry Tebb, in criticising public library charges (Letters, THES, December 24/31), suggests that university libraries jealously guard their resources from the public. Nonsense. The University of...
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In brief
The Cubie report may not have all the answers, but it is at least a tribute to all those who have protested about the inequity of tuition fees ("Cubie rejects upfront fees", THES, December 24/31). I...