Brutalising experiments
An argument against vivisection much overlooked even in the literature of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection that I have received is the effect on the experimenter of conducting...
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Gold service for payers
It seems to be an assumption underlying the cross-party consensus on higher education funding that students with differential purchasing power will allocate themselves by time-honoured invisible hand...
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Tarnished reputation
C. B. Goodhart's evident desire to rescue Cyril Burt's reputation (THES, Letters, September 22) may be commendable. But he should not do so by perpetuating the myth that the attack on Burt was led...
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Time to care about those in care
Panic levels have been soaring with the capture of another year's worth of undergraduates. Tutors have outdone each other in displays to attract unqualified adult learners, administrators have chased...
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Information key to entry
We know which universities are best from asking our teachers," a sixth-former at Guiseley School in Leeds told a THES reporter. But how do their teachers know? In a mass higher education system...
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The brief encounter
Style matters in politics. Anyone who doubts this need only contemplate the respective political trajectories of the last two education secretaries. John Patten, widely regarded as the most...
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Action threat over 15%
Australia's university staff have demanded an immediate 15 per cent rise in their salaries and warned they will take industrial action if the government does not agree. In return they will support an...
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Intakes increased in ministry shake-up
Malaysia's education ministry is being restructured this month. It will have six departments designed to focus on government priorities following a directive by prime minister Datuk Seri Mahathir...
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Exams stamp out corruption
Thousands of Chinese graduates have been taking the new national civil service recruitment examinations. Up until now government departments were free to follow their own recruitment procedures and...
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A case of crime and punishment
The death penalty is on trial in Rostov on Don and novelist Feodor Dostoevsky, who once faced a firing squad, is in the witness box. The mock trial, complete with black-robed presiding judge,...
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Library director brought to book
Valerii Leonov, the director of the library of the Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg, faces criminal charges for misappropriation of books under his care. According to the St Petersburg...
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Sorbonne heals wounds of 1968
The Sorbonne deserves its prestige and reputation but the ancient university may have to undergo profound changes to face the future, according to France's National Evaluation Committee. The...
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Give our museums back back
Have today's public museums lost sight of their original purpose of educating, informing and stimulating curiousity and imagination? Have they become the sterile preserve of fastidious curators, self...
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Travelling Danes saved by English
Danish universities are considering whether to increase radically the number of courses taught in English to attract foreign students to Denmark. The Danes fear that they will not be able to attract...
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Search for a perfect tutor
The Humanities Institute at Charles University in Prague was founded only two years ago, born in the vacuum created by the disappearance of the old Institute of Marxism-Leninism. But its roots lie in...