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From rags to Royal Society
Edward Frankland
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Gaian takes on Darwin
Slanted Truths
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Lessons on muddling through
All the Essential (Half-) Truths About Higher Education
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Earth mother, microbe lover
Worldly wise: 7. Biologist Lynn Margulis hates being seen as a 'woman scientist', rejects the current model of evolution and worships microbes. Andrew Robinson tries to find out what makes a...
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Margulis has successfully challenged the neo-Darwinians
Earth mother, microbe lover Biologists agree that more life is produced on earth than can possibly survive; that natural selection is the process by which some small fraction of what is produced...
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Near the bottom
8.1% of professors are women Cardiff, 'The Boys' Club' Carol Featherston, 31, has been a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Wales, Cardiff, her first academic post, for two...
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At the top
8.1% of professors are women South Bank South Bank's reputation as the best place for a woman to aim for a professorship is somewhat surprising, given that only a few years ago it was generally seen...
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Grants called for
National minimum grants for further education students to meet the costs of fees, travel and childcare have been called for in a government-commissioned report. The "entitlements" should apply to all...
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Strategy under attack
THE government's higher education strategy has been attacked for encouraging undergraduate vocationalism at the expense of the real graduate qualities valued by industry. In this month's edition of...
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Push for publishing
Heads of publishing departments in higher education have formed a group to represent departments to employers and to act as a forum for debate. The United Kingdom Association of Publishing Educators...
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Summer savings time
PEOPLE may begin saving to learn this summer as the government launches test runs of its showpiece individual learning accounts scheme. Twelve development projects in England, Scotland and Wales will...
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Officers come to King's
KING'S College London has won a Pounds 20 million contract to educate the next generation of British armed forces officers. Education at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, which will merge...
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Bids invited
UNIVERSITIES and colleges have been invited to bid for shares of Pounds 300,000 earmarked for improving graduate employability. Education minister Baroness Blackstone announced funding for a further...
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Dearing plea to ease cash pressure
Lord Dearing has warned that the government must ease funding pressure on higher education to allow time to develop ideas on how to maintain quality while reducing costs. Giving the Alexander Stone...