Write and wrong
The important development is not that 20 per cent or even 60 per cent of students cannot write accurately. One or two indeed will be incapable of writing anything but near gibberish. What is more...
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Virgins, sex and drugs
Surely, Nottingham University should have been immediately suspicious of anything styled the Virgin Institute of Fertility (THES, January 28). As a BBC commentator once famously remarked of the...
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Virgins, sex and drugs
On behalf of all staff in this office, can I disclaim any involvement in the activities alluded to by Laurie Taylor regarding "Torrid nights of sex and drugs in F block" (THES, January 28). At least...
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Loans and fees do not aid access
It may be possible from the rarefied heights of the Department for Education and Employment for David Blunkett to believe that the substitution of loans for grants and the imposition of tuition fees...
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Loans and fees do not aid access
One might have presumed that the removal of grants and the creation of loans was based purely on new Labour's desire to save the Treasury some money. The extent of those savings being dictated by the...
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Loans and fees do not aid access
David Blunkett declares there is a fairer system in place for fees, loans and grants. But students will be disappointed if they believe institutions are themselves fairly funded. Looking at non-...
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Couched concepts
Instead of reading about the strengths and weaknesses in Joseph Schwartz's Cassandra's Daughter (Books, THES, January 28), I learned that Raymond Tallis does not like psychoanalysis. The review gave...
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Couched concepts
Senior lecturer in psychiatrySt George's Hospital Medical SchoolLondon It is interesting to juxtapose Raymond Tallis's attack on psychoanalysis from the viewpoint of proper science with the...
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Canadian and US scientists slug it out over GMOs
Scientists on both sides of the genetically modified foods debate made sure they had their say when the UN held its conference in Montreal last week. Philip Fine reports As representatives of more...
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The kinder side of the E.coli bug
The fight against auto-immune diseasecould get help from an unlikely source, says Geoff Watts As the raw material for a new way of treating rheumatoid arthritis, the poison produced by a diarrhoea-...
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Influence or irrelevance?
Secretary of state for education David Blunkett asks whether social science can improve government policy- making Can the social science community help to improve government or is it destined to be...
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Veggies are good survivors
Vegetarians may have led the dinosaurs out of obscurity and into 140 million years of global dominance. Remains of two of the earliest known species of "terrible lizard" are helping vertebrate...
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Carrots could stop cancer
Eat your carrots - and oranges. Scientists have found indications that beta-carotene, the substance that gives carrots their orange colour, may protect against cancer by helping to repair DNA....
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Origins search looks to Titan
An important step has been taken towards concocting the chemical soup that may have led to the birth of life on Earth. A team from the Academia Sinica at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular...
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Why dons are all talk
One-to-one coaching helps academics to deal with the increasing pressure on their time. Pat Leon meets an energising existential psychotherapist. An hour with an existential psychotherapist is...