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Giving the evil eye a closer look
The Face
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Ever-decreasing rugby balls
Imaging Phonons
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Windy with solar outbursts
Physics of the Space Environment
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Higher channels
John Davies picks programmes of interest to THES types. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY November 5 The Routes of English (4.0 R4). Focusing on Chaucer and his language. Eye on the World (9.00...
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Dangerous liaisons
After a bloody warning from a fierce Amazonian tribe, a student research group left in a hurry. Jennifer Currie asks if such expeditions tread too perilous a path. John Groom knows he is a lucky man...
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Cretaceous crimes that fuel the fossil trade
Brazil's illegal fossil trade is thriving. But how can it be controlled when it offers impoverished people a livelihood and supplies academics and museums with valuable specimens? Steve Farrar...
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To craft a witch
Anne Gunter vomited, sneezed pins and was racked by fits. Was she bewitched by a neighbour or abused by her father? James Sharpe unravels a 17th-century mystery. Academic historians are a fairly...
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And the outlook, warm ... very, very warm
Is the oil industry guilty of crimes against humanity? The industry says no; energy expert Jeremy Leggett says yes, and argues that if unchecked it could cause millions to perish. Alison Goddard...
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Bujumbura
Burundi's first private university has opened in Bodi with 400 students in the faculties of the humanities and social sciences. Numbers will grow to 6,000 in four years with the opening of faculties...
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People power
(Photograph) - Staff and students at the Autonomous University of Mexico ballot the public about whether they agree with plans for higher tuition fees. The aim is to break the deadlock in a dispute...
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Commercial 'threat to freedom'
MONTREAL. Canadian higher education appears to be building a "corporate university" that places commercial opportunities ahead of academic freedom, a professor warns in a book published today. Neil...
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Agony aunt
Q. I have been asked to set up a work experience programme for a group of students, but am getting a poor response from local firms. Any advice please? Oliver Fry Research officer. The National...
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Do exams hinder student learning?
NO. Assessment, when effectively designed and fit for purpose, will greatly help the development of a learning society because: It enables students to get the measure of their own achievement and the...
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Do exams hinder student learning?
YES. Normal assessment practice is a well- intended but bureaucratically driven attempt to assure the quality of education. It is characterised by standardised learning objectives, assignments and...