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Martin Nthakomwa, a postgraduate management student at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, is to run a barefoot ultramarathon between Glasgow and Perth, via Edinburgh, to pay for a new...
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Particle physicists are to fire neutrino beams from Cern, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, 730 km through the Alps to Gran Sasso in Italy. The experiment, which won funding of...
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Thoughts of an HE new year
What are your hopes and fears for higher education over the next millennium? The THES asked... THE BISHOP The year 2000 will be a critical decade in higher education. After such enormous changes in...
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Former student Russel Ogden, who abandoned his postgraduate studies on Aids suicides and euthanasia at Exeter University amid a row over research ethics, is thinking of suing for damages. He is...
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More influence for football supporters over the control of their clubs is the subject of a conference to be held at Birkbeck College on January . The conference follows news that the Football Task...
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The THES wishes to clarify that contrary to the impression given by our article on the Middlesex University Business School (THES, December 17), we did not obtain any information from MUBS external...
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The average salary for a full-time lecturer working in a new university or adult education centre was Pounds 29,0 in March 1998, according to the Department for Education and Employment. Some 26,670...
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Hogmanay tactics
Universities have prepared for the millennium with military rigour. Olga Wojtas and Claire Sanders report. Richard Field's father organised emergency planning operations for civil defence during the...
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Glowing references
As it is the season of goodwill, Whistleblowers has become "Trumpetblowers" for one week only - providing a forum for universities to blow their own trumpets and to celebrate the positive side of...
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The price of 21st-century success
The Cubie report on student finance in Scotland makes a fitting end to the century and the millennium. Cubie's recommendations, along with the vice-chancellors' recent bid for future funding, present...
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In brief
You seem to relish stigmatising Islam as a repressive religion with Muslims as an intolerant bunch of tyrants and freaks. More recently, your front page carried a rather loaded title: "Poor Pakistan...
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Brought to book
One result of increasing penury in our crumbling public library system has been unrestricted rises in charges for book reservations. Once pegged at the cost of a second-class stamp they now vary...
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Be wary of new degree
Your story on the associate degree model ("New Labour, new year, new degree", THES, December 10) was unclear. In the United States the typical undergraduate degree equates to a four-year full-time...
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In brief
So Peter Scott, v-c of Kingston University, thinks "minority" issues such as "black and gay identities" are "particularly American preoccupations" that are not "important" in British universities ("...
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Imperial vs imperious
I have been applying to study electrical/information systems engineering. I have offers from Imperial College (AAA) and York (ABB), my second and third choices, as well as from other universities I...