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Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. I once went to visit a physicist in his...
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Exploring the visual everywhere
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Art history, says Carol Richardson of...
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A reason to cry wolf
As wolf populations multiply, so do attacks on people and livestock. Steve Farrar reports on a clash between academics and 'wolf huggers' over how to respond. James Howell caught a fleeting glimpse...
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Higher channels
John Davies selects from the broadcasting menu (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week A lot gets packed into the 90 minutes of The Holocaust on Trial (Saturday 7.15 C4). Not only does it...
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Survival was a numbers game
Everyone has the genetic ability to do maths, claims Keith Devlin. So why don't most of us use it? How's your maths? Most people assume that it takes a special kind of brain to be able to do...
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Pay gap widens for US faculty
American university faculty enjoyed salary raises above inflation this year for the sixth time in the past seven years, but their pay continues to fall behind that of other highly educated...
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Fees leave Scandanavians cold
Senior civil servants from all of Scandinavia's ministries of higher education are agreed that the time is not ripe for the introduction of university tuition fees in the region. Gathered in Iceland...
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Students target private tuition
Italy's main student union has launched a national campaign against advertising by Italy's largest private tuition firm, which uses Alex Del Piero, star player of Juventus football club, and...
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Here's looking at you, squid
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
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Five projects share Pounds 462,000
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT Higher Education Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...
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Student insurers rebrand to cover scandalous past
France's biggest student social insurance society, tainted by fraud and corruption and the subject of official investigations for the past two years, has been relaunched with a new name and statutory...
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Historian pays the price of denial
Darijusz Ratajczak, a Polish history lecturer, has been dismissed from his post at the Opole University and banned from academic teaching for three years. A university disciplinary commission ruled...
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There is still time to mend a flawed government bill
It is becoming apparent that the government's decision to exclude higher education from plans to restructure post-16 education through the Learning and Skills bill is a serious shortcoming (page 4)....
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Members should be on the USS's conscience
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...
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Global vision takes seed in plantation schools
Was the world declaration on Education For All more than a vision? asks Angela Little on the eve of the declaration's review Next week in Dakar, Senegal, 900 educationists, donors, non-governmental...