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Last week in The THES Valentine Cunningham and Ron Cooke debated the past and present states of our universities Martyn Hammersley. Professor of educational and social research Open University What a...
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Has the GM backlash blighted British botany?
The debate over genetically modified crops has had a big impact - but what has it meant for plant scientists? In a THES survey, Steve Farrar polled the experts' opinions. It is a time of unparalleled...
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Cold comfort in chicken soup
It seems that granny was right all along - chicken soup is really good for colds. A study by a team of scientists at Nebraska Medical Center in the United States has found that the broth contains...
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Heart attack trigger found
The latest advance in the fight against heart disease comes from Glasgow University researchers involved in a long-term investigation of cholesterol levels. The team led by Chris Packard of Glasgow's...
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Nobody's out there
From 1978 until 1990, the USSR made a scientific study of reports of unidentifed flying objects. Juliy Platov and Boris Sokolov reveal what was found At about 4am on September 20 1977, a strange...
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Bad apples in China market
The actions of a few "bad apple" universities could destroy Britain's attempts to move into the burgeoning Chinese higher education market. The Quality Assurance Agency said this...
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International academics wait in wings for Serbian democracy
Europe's education ministers see early repeal of Serbia's 1998 University Law as a critical step towards readmitting the country to the international academic community and the release of financial...
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Eyewitness
While Serbia's elections made world headlines, other election campaigns have been in progress throughout the former Soviet bloc, from Poland to Azerbaijan in the south and Kyrgyzstan on the Chinese...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has admitted that government attempts to improve the performance of Malay students through a policy of "positive discrimination" and &...
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Santiago
Chilean education minister Mariana Aylwin has told striking students at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences that they will be moved to other universities if they do not return to...
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Beijing
Chinese universities are being encouraged to forge closer links with African institutions. Ten have already established relationships with 20 establishments in 16 African countries. African students...
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Ankara
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has attacked the powers of the country's higher education authority, Yok. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Ankara University, he said the authority's sole duty...
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World View: Imagine living on $1 a day
Global crisis is too close to home to be ignored. Dorothy Zinberg joined in the search for solutions The statistics of global poverty are mind-numbing: more than 1 billion people do not have access...
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Lang to confront student failure
France's education minister Jack Lang is seeking to improve the success rate of the first-level general university diploma. Fewer than four out of ten students who take the diploma pass in the set...
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Cned, France's national distance-learning centre
An agreement to develop distance learning in higher education was signed last week between Cned, France's national distance-learning centre, and the heads of the associations representing university...