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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 the work of a Dutch Jew who was expelled from his synagogue for his...
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Able minds incarcerated by traditional attitudes
What makes someone disabled - society or their own bodies? Tom Shakespeare reports on a radical academic subject, while Sarah Earle (below) argues that there is still one taboo for universities...
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Out of a barren cradle
Romanian orphans adopted by UK families have made remarkable progress, despite an appalling start in life. Michael Rutter argues that this sheds new light on child development and raises questions...
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Sex and the disabled student
More and more disabled people are entering higher education, so many, in fact, that some universities have introduced "personal assistant" schemes to provide disabled students with up to 24 hours of...
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Cassandra in Euroland
Ex-Thatcher guru Patrick Minford tells Kam Patel why we should not swap our pounds for euros and why new Labour are such good Tories. To have been a raging free-marketeer in Liverpool in the mid-...
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Atom smashing in the world's greatest machine
It houses a scientific instrument longer than London's Circle Line, and employs some of the brightest physicists on the planet. Ayala Ochert reports from Cern - where the mission is to discover the...
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Finns reunited with a cultural icon
when the Finno/Russian border was sealed in 1920 universities in Finland suddenly lost access to one of their primary cultural resources. East of the border, lay most of Karelia, the land that had...
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Ukraine takes democracy class
A Canadian university is helping Ukraine establish its first national programme in the study of democracy. Expected to begin in the autumn, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, will set up a four...
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The Mafia spreads fear in Messina
ITALY's anti-Mafia commission is investigating the University of Messina in eastern Sicily as part of a wider probe into corruption in the city. Results of an education ministry inquiry are also...
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False premise makes for wrong policy
A LINK between quality and funding is again high on the agenda. Ministers wish it so. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has set up a committee to consider how to arrange it. But it...
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Ensure standards with a light touch
Today and yesterday, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has been holding its annual meeting. On Monday, the Quality Assurance Agency will hold a consultative conference on its proposals...
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Contracts to kill
MANY universities regard fixed-term researchers funded by "soft" money as different from other fixed-term staff whose jobs would traditionally be permanent. The Association of University Teachers'...
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Remains in a museum
NEIL Chalmers is inaccurate in claiming that the World Archaeological Congress had access to the Natural History Museum's archives on its human remains collection in 1991-92 (Letters, THES, March )....
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A sexual challenge
BOTH responses to Jennifer Davey's article about enabling women to get more firsts (THES, March 13) miss her point. Davey said that women would not be "made more equal" by fudging the criteria for...