Fallout from a quick-fix world
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Ties that bind and unwind
Family Fragments?
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Mind over matter
Unlike most philosophers, Daniel Dennett believes we can build a human being and that all the mind's work is just the sum of mechanical systems that make up the brain. Harriet Swain reports As a...
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X marks the academic
With a week's campaigning left before the Scots and Welsh cast their national assembly votes, Alan Thomson asks academic candidates from the main parties why they want to quit their ivory towers for...
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Your starter for ten
The Open University won this week's University Challenge final. Does that mean more students will apply to the OU? John Davies reports Here's a question that wasn't asked in the University Challenge...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week New Labour has now been in power for two years, so under the overall title Now We Are Two, Channel 4 is marking the...
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Journey to the middle of the brain
The problem with autism, Francesca Happe tells Alison Goddard, is that it stops you reading minds While millions sit glued to the latest plot twist in EastEnders, people with autism are left...
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Making the grade?
The concrete jungles of 1960s architecture are not only back in vogue - they are being listed by English Heritage. But are they hell to work in? Kate Worsley reports These days it is positively old-...
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Stockholm
Sweden is to fund an extra 10,000 higher education places in 2001 with another 10,000 in 2002 on top of planned expansion of 68,000 places from 1997 to 2000. The budget allocates an an extra Kr779...
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Online debate
Can league tables ever be fair?. Join the THES/Nexus debate at www.thesis.co.uk Debate
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Readers' reactions
LAST WEEK IN THE THES.... David Weatherall argued that scientists doing industry-sponsored research risk being gagged. Jeremy Hoad General secretary National Postgraduate Committee For postgraduates...
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Radical reform of post-16 predicted
The government wants to shake up post-compulsory education in England. Tony Tysome and Phil Baty look at who stays and who may go Post-16 education and training in England is facing "the most...
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The THES Diary
Conference mouthful Delegates to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's annual conference last week were racking their brains over a new name for Heroic, the Higher Education Reach Out to...
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On the move
Neil Small, senior research fellow in palliative medicine at Sheffield University, has been appointed to a chair in community and primary care at the University of Bradford. The post has been created...
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In the news
Calm, reliable and genial, George Quigley is not a man who inspires cross words. He has put his qualities to use not only as a civil servant and businessman, as chairman of Ulster Bank, but also...