The colours of advancement
A landmark trial has thrust race equality onto the education agenda. Helen Hague reports Asif Qureshi, who won a record payout for racial discrimination from Manchester University two years ago, has...
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Dressed to impress
Shapeless, ugly, scruffy ... formal academic gowns may be OK for men, but high-flying women are designing their own. Elaine Williams reports Vice-chancellors have rarely given a second thought to the...
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Burial rites and civil wrongs
Should Kennewick Man's 9,000-year-old remains go to American Indians for burial or to scientists for research? Tim Cornwell reports on a row dividing academics Three years after his bones were...
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The Gospel according to science
Science offers a framework for understanding human behaviour and a basis for moral choice. This, Paul Davies says, could point the way to a new ethics In a few days, General Augusto Pinochet will...
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Star turn
Computer science boring? Lectures ineffective? Not at Kent University. Jennifer Currie meets the Jerry Springer of the lecture hall. Give Sally Fincher a microphone, and she could give Jerry Springer...
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Northern lights
Arktiktum in Lapland is not the most northerly institute of higher education in the world (Eyewitness, THES, January 7). That distinction belongs to the University of Tr?mso in Norway. Anthony...
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Missing women
Just two of the 17 contributors to The Millennium Magazine (THES, December 24/31 1999) were women. Editor Auriol Stevens pre-empts criticism by declaring it was the millenn-ium of men. Yet the texts...
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Drama addition
We have five members of staff, not four ("A new stage in Greek tragedy", THES, January 14). Pantelis Michelakis, an expert on the relationship between ancient drama and the modern cinema, joined in...
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The Hague
Fausto Pocar, an Italian professor of international law at the University of Milan, has been made a judge on the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. He has conducted missions for the United Nations High...
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Kuching
Malaysian education minister Tan Sri Musa Muhammad is under pressure to review the timing of graduation and delays in postings for new teachers. The Sarawak Teachers Union says teachers were usually...
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Tokyo
Forty Chinese universities attended an exhibition in Japan in December to attract Japanese students. It was China's first large-scale effort to recruit overseas students.
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Power of prayer
(Photograph) - Power of prayer: Japanese high school students tie picture tablets on to a shrine wall in Tokyo to bring them good fortune in competitive university entrance examinations that are...
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Petaling Jaya
Malaysia's National Accreditation Board has ruled that students enrolling for masters degrees in private universities must have a first degree or its equivalent starting from next year.
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Ottawa
Wilbert Keon, Canada's first artificial heart transplant surgeon, who resigned over allegations he had sought sex with a prostitute, is to keep his job after the University of Ottawa Heart Institute'...
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UK could face Singapore snub
The British Council has warned that complacency is endangering British universities' lucrative market share of student recruitment in Singapore. Institutions that have historically enjoyed close...