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See evil, speak no evil
Dunant's Dream
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work that owes something to Lenin and Warren Beatty: "Towards the end of...
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ACU tipped to take over fee-waiver programme
Commonwealth ministers are determined to increase student exchanges. Elaine Carlton reports It is a battle of international proportions and one that the education ministers of the Commonwealth are...
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Quality watchdog acts fast
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured QUALITY watchdogs have acted quickly to ensure government efforts to improve access to higher...
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The winding road to a kitemark
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured REGISTERED access courses have had their own recognition scheme since 1989. Then it was run jointly by...
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Second sight
(Photograph) - Inventor Jeff Berman explains his laser-guided bow to Andrew Welch, a blind student at Queen Alexandra College, Harborne, Birmingham, during an annual event for people with...
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Alternative routes to university
In the second of our series on access initiatives, Harriet Swain looks at how quality is assured There are 1,382 recognised access to higher education programmes in England, Wales and Northern...
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Commonwealth research funding
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND BRITISH COUNCIL AWARD SCHEMES The Commonwealth...
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The challenge ahead
In the second of a five-part series on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing UK universities, Michael Shattock looks at what made them world leaders and asks if it is at risk "...
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Fact file
Findings from the Further Education Funding Council for England reveal that for 1996-97: * 85 per cent of students in further education stay on courses on which they enrol * 68 per cent of students...
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Scottish pupils passing highers at all-time high
The number of Scottish pupils passing highers is also at an all-time high. The 1998 results show a 0.5 per cent rise in passes and a 0.4 per cent rise in those gaining As.
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All Along the Ivory Tower
(Photograph) - All Along the Ivory Tower: Lee Marshall is running a course on Bob Dylan at Warwick University. The course can count towards a degree.Photograph: Gavin Fogg
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Hewlett Packard lab chief to run UK research
JOHN TAYLOR, director of the Hewlett Packard labs in Bristol, has been appointed director general of the research councils from next January, following the retirement of Sir John Cadogan. Peter...
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Animal testing: patients fight back
People who want to abolish all animal research are being invited by a patients' pressure group to pledge that they will live without treatments developed using the technique. The group, Seriously Ill...