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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a 20th-century writer interested in a degree of sexual latitude: "Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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Hath not a drama teacher eyes?
Peter Cox argues (THES, August 11) "the pursuit of educational drama . . . by enthusiasts has been largely responsible for drama being excluded from the National Curriculum as a subject in its own...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...
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Hostage to a silent revolution
There is a silent revolution going on in the research councils, receiving too little comment from academia though it threatens to undermine research objectivity, thus potentially siphoning research...
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Italians spurn HE
University enrolment in Italy has fallen for the first time since the second world war. In 1994/95, 5.2 per cent fewer students enrolled than in 1993/94, writes Paul Bompard. The Central Statistics...
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Poles' vaulting ambition
Student numbers in Polish higher education seem set to continue to rise even though, in defiance of government policy, the state universities have recruited 5,000 fewer full-time students than last...
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Law dean quits after arrest
The dean of the faculty of law at the University of Nairobi has resigned following his arrest and detention for three hours at a police station for discussing political matters over a cup of tea with...
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Angolans in raid on Moscow embassy
The plight of 900 Angolan students, stranded in the former Soviet Union without means of support, is causing "extreme concern", according to the Russian foreign ministry. The Angolan government has...
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Scots look at stress on the rocks
A group of scientists at Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities can genuinely describe their research as ground breaking. The Edinburgh Rock Mechanics Consortium has been investigating how rocks...
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Japanese diet doldrums
Reducing the incidence of stroke and heart disease in Japan is the aim of a tripartite research programme at the University of Wales, College of Medicine, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Kobe Gakuin...
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Disabled get raw deal from film world
Cinema presents twisted and stereotyped views of the real lives of disabled people, according to Paul Darke's research at Warwick University. Mr Darke, a postgraduate researcher in the department of...
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Robots steeled to mend bridges
The expensive and hazardous business of repairing steel bridges could become a lot safer and cheaper with the help of robot technology developed by the defence industry for the remote disposal of...
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Top ten amplifies 500 years of music in Aberdeen
Five hundred years ago, music played an important part in the newly founded Aberdeen University, with the establishment of the "Vicars Choral" to sing in King's College Chapel. Three years ago, the...