IRA prisoner issue 'strains' Irish peace
As serious disturbances again erupted in Northern Ireland, a peace studies expert is warning that the fragile peace process is being put under needless strain by delays in the transfer of Irish...
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Balancing act
(Photograph) - Balancing act: Steve Faulkner has been selected for the first academic circus and performing arts course at the former Hackney power station in East London, to be run by The Circus...
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Blue skies to sky blue
Alec Broers, a David-sized engineer with a Goliath reputation, exudes a boyish enthusiasm as he rushes through the multi-million pound research laboratory along Trumpington Street, pointing out the...
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A-level grades up
One per cent more pupils have achieved A-level grades A to C then last year, according to the A-level boards who published their results yesterday. There is also a 0.9 per cent increase in the...
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A little thanks for the memory
One school of thought has always held that, as institutions at the intellectual cutting-edge, universities should encourage architectural innovation. But the example set by the School of Oriental and...
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Students demand fee refund
Mature students taking a counselling certificate are demanding compensation from Glasgow Caledonian University Company for breach of contract over their course. The students, who include a nun, a GP...
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Arab call for jobs in Israel's academia
Israeli Arabs have appealed for government support for more tenured Arab staff in universities. In a letter to Amnon Rubinstein, minister of education, a group of Arab academics said that, despite...
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Worth more than my job, mate
When Huw Beynon published his first book it met with jeers and denials. He tells Martyn Kelly about the trials of investigating the shop floor. When I was a student I was strongly influenced by E. P...
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Summer breeze?
Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend their time during the summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The THES asked four of them what they area ctually doing. John Kidd Director of the James...
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Poisoned ink
Zhores Medvedev reports on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the bulk of Stalin's personal archive. This year academics in both East and West have been able to take advantage of several...
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Final frontiers
Science has obscured the once clear line between life and death and it is time our ethics developed in response, argues Peter Singer. After ruling our thoughts and our decisions about life and death...
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A fine old mess we've got into
The clearing season is moving into full swing. A-level results are out, people are looking for places. Institutions have geared themselves up for clearing - additional phone lines are staffed;...
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Don's Diary
Monday. At Mariry. At 4.30 am the cockerels go off. By six the grey light grows through heavy mist. Twittering finches in the secondary growth nearby, an Amazonian thrush singing further back in the...
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System due for change
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
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Amazement at pseudo avenues for advancements
Opinion (THES, August 4) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, identifies particular "avenues for advancement", the development of new concepts and capabilities, fusion of...