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Cheep imitations of human thought
Despite many efforts to prove otherwise, the minds of animals are profoundly different from ours. We should stop trying to compare animals to us and start thinking about them as they are, argues...
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The living document
Is oral history a useful and reliable research tool? Academics are divided on the issue, says Harriet Swain Derek Lovatt, a 58-year-old recovering alcoholic, describes on tape growing up in the post-...
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Higher channels
John Davies selects radio and television programmes. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY january 1 Global Sunrise (7.00 UK Horizon). How wildlife around the planet reacts to the dawn. First shown...
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Survival of the fitter
At a time when Labour is desperate to break the middle-class stranglehold on universities, Alan Thomson asks two working-class lecturers how they coped at college Roger Undy is a rarity among Oxford...
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Strange bouquet
Julia Hinde reports on a new controversial classification of plants, based not on their appearance but on their genes Step into Mark Chase's Kew Gardens laboratory and there is not a plant in sight....
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Bombing 'wrong way to topple Saddam'
Academics have criticised the bombing of Iraq by Britain and the United States. They say that the action could escalate, it will fail to destroy Saddam Hussein's regime and that there are better...
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Caledonian is guilty of bullying
A hard-hitting report has cleared Glasgow Caledonian University of academic malpractice and falsifying examination results, but has uncovered serious academic lapses and management bullying and...
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Hogmanay kiss mixes emotions
Wanseo Koo's introduction to the traditional British Christmas dinner was a festive Yorkshire pudding. Mr Koo, a Heriot-Watt student from South Korea, spent Christmas with friends whose oven broke...
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Loneliness of overseas students at Christmas
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
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Courtesy code to stop turf wars
The British Council's marketing watchdog has moved to prevent turf wars between universities and colleges operating overseas. A tough code drafted by the Educational Counselling Service bans...
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Bids invited for virtual shops
Prospective students will be able to shop for higher education in a virtual mall next year. The United Kingdom Higher Education Mall will present users with a computer-generated mall, or centre,...
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Aerospace university 'has a right to its title'
Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, vice- chancellor and managing director of the British Aerospace University, faced questioning over her company's use of the title university at a Lancaster conference this...
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Cambridge rejects accountability rules
Accountability measures recommended by Cambridge University's internal standards watchdog have been rejected by the governing council. The council voted against recommendations made earlier this year...
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Glasgow bids for brains
Educationists can take little comfort from a MORI word-association survey among adult Glasgwegians. For 73 per cent, "education" was associated with "school"; for 43 per cent, it was "boring". The...