A true test of talent
John Stein turned down Laura Spence. He is developing a test to identify smart students for Oxford Laura Spence has done brilliantly to get five As, despite the furore that followed Gordon Brown's...
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The price is definitely not right
Jeremy Hoad asks why universities spring extra costs on postgrad students, often when they can least afford them Consider this. You walk into a car showroom, choose a car, look at the price on the...
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Lima
The rector of Lima's Ricardo Palma University has called on Peru's supreme court to reverse a local court decision to acquit the previous rector of charges of appropriation of funds and fraud...
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Samsun
Staff at 19th Mayais University are planning a 400km march from Samsun to the Turkish capital, Ankara, to protest at the appointment of a rector by the higher education authority, Yok, when staff had...
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Tbilisi
Georgia's ministry of education has postponed the opening of the new academic year from the traditional date of September 1 to September 18 because of a drought that has caused a severe shortage of...
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Nappy the key to diabetic pill
Most patients suffering from diabetes would prefer a pill than the painful injections many endure. Medicines such as insulin cannot be swallowed as they get broken down by the acid in the stomach...
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Oil aids cancer treatment
Evening primrose, a popular nutritional supplement, has been credited with a variety of beneficial properties. Researchers have now found the oil may also help cancer patients recover following...
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Sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available to academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to: research@thes.co.uk NUFFIELD FOUNDATION www.nuffieldfoundation.org Oliver Bird Fund...
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High fliers
(Photograph) - High fliers: school-leavers who train as Royal Air Force pilots and navigators will be able to count their training towards as much as half an Open University degree, under a scheme to...
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Nature boy
(Photograph) - Nature boy: a performance artist at the recent Between Nature conference at Lancaster University, organised by the centre of environmental change and the department of theatre studies
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California introduces means test grants for different fees
Boston California plans to guarantee tuition subsidies for nearly a third of high-school graduates from next year in a "historic" move that bucks the trend away from government grants in the United...
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At sea without a chart
It's high time the UK developed a national policy on marine issues, says Jacqueline McGlade The oceans and seas are of economic and social importance to the United Kingdom: they provide natural...
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Jokes
I say, I say, I say, did you know that the only way to study one people's jokes is to compare them with those of another? Why are the Jews pre-eminent at inventing and telling jokes, in particular,...
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Death shock to a dying council
Why did Argentina's leading cardiologist commit suicide? Domenico Pacitti reports on mounting unrest in a system in dire need of reform The suicide of Argentina's foremost cardiologist, Rene Geronimo...
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How to keep a cat in limbo
Schrodinger's cat may be about to escape the atomic world for the first time. Physicists have designed an experiment to discover whether one of the great conundrums of quantum mechanics is possible...