Man to blame for present and future disasters
Manmade disasters will be just as common in the future as they are today, despite improved technology, because of man's "abject failure" to learn from the past, it was argued this week. David Weir,...
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Electron microscope in sight for materialists
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has awarded materials scientists at the universities of Birmingham, Loughborough and Warwick Pounds 750,000 to buy a new electron microscope. Made as...
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Universities 'still far from sexually egalitarian'
Gender research reveals surprising attitudes to women a work Confident female university lecturers are often seen as "scary" by their students, while the institutions in which they work are far from...
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Chechens see light on the road to Damascus
Chechnia is sending students to Syria to be trained as future "ideological personnel", according to Russian public television. The first contingent has arrived at the "supreme Islamic Institute" in...
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Graduates join student doctor revolution
Melbourne SHE IS 54 years of age, physically active and has rarely had a day's illness in her life. But, as she confides to a friend at the local gymnasium, she has recently discovered a lump in her...
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Devaluing the human factor
OPPOSITION to a ban on the reproductive cloning of human beings is based on two main types of argument. One defends individual "rights" to clone, the second scientific freedom. There is a fundamental...
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What to learn from training
GOVERNMENT responses to the Dearing report are expected soon -probably now before publication of the ever receding, once white, now green, lifelong learning paper. One recommendation expected to find...
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Revenue streams without strings
Private money is important to universities - and has been getting more so in recent years. Paradoxically, its significance has grown as more public money has gone into higher education. As...
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AUT-Natfhe merger
The way union members "combine around common aims and interests" is certainly a key ingredient of effectiveness (THES, January 23). Building unity of purpose is a delicate business however and must...
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Bizarre behaviour
My sociology department has just received its result in the postgraduate training recognition exercise of the Economic and Social Research Council. In addition to telling us that we are not fit for...
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Paternity puzzler
The response of bioethicist John Harris to the possibility of human cloning is "Why not?" (THES, January 23). While he is right to call for reasoned debate, his defence of the individual's right to...
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The right to say no to the auditors
Many senior managers will have been surprised that Cambridge University does not wish to involve itself in the Quality Assurance Agency's continuation audit process (THES, January 30). The QAA...
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The right to say no to the auditors
THE apparent refusal of Cambridge University to acquiesce in its continuation audit by the Quality Assurance Agency must come as welcome news to all who believe, like me, that British higher...
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Bill amendments
Liberal Democrat amendments for report stage of Teaching and Higher Education Bill. Clause 16 Amendments by Lord Tope call for: * loans to be extended to part-time students on or before April 1, 2000...
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The right to say no to the auditors
As chair of the British Association for American Studies I have been pressing the Quality Assurance Agency to take account of the view of Americanists in their new plans for subject expert teams (...