Down the drain
Water is an ever more precious resource, but experts do not believe that water shortages will spark a war in the future. Jennie Bristow reports Will the next world war be fought over water? It may...
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When making things simple does not always give the right answer
Reductionism holds that even the most complicated processes can be explained in simple scientific terms. Steven Rose begs to differ Reductionism is a portmanteau word; its multiple meanings generate...
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What should those MSPs do?
On Thursday some four milion people will vote for or against the setting up of a Scottish parliament. It is likely the vote will be successful, so what happens next, asks Lindsay Paterson The debate...
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Scottish devolution: the essential facts
The Government's white paper, Scotland's Parliament, proposes the biggest reshaping of the United Kingdom's constitution since the partition of Ireland in 1922. Next Thursday the electors of Scotland...
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Listing is for research degrees and jobs
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs. Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several contact people they have been listed...
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Urals reporters get BBC tips
Russian radio and television reporters are going back to college in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg to learn the BBC art of journalism. Broadcasting professionals from the central Urals, a vast area...
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Private colleges take the law into their own hands
Young Russians increasingly see a law degree as the fastest track to prosperity in a market-oriented society, and higher education institutions, both state and private, have been swift to meet the...
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Vouchers enrage students
New Zealand students have clashed with police in protests over proposed changes to tertiary education which could see the introduction of a voucher system. A leaked ministry of education draft...
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Anzacs fight on fees front
UNIVERSITY students in Australia and New Zealand have launched a joint campaign to protest at the higher education policies of their respective governments. The "Trans-Tasman week of action" involved...
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Universities 'over-rated'
Australia's students rate technical and further education (TAFE) colleges higher than universities, according to new research, writes Geoff Maslen. A study by University of Melbourne researchers...
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Tax relief for study balances budget
COLLEGE students and their parents will enjoy an estimated $40 billion worth of tax credits towards tuition in the next five years as part of an historic agreement to balance the United States...
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South Africa boosts its science
Africa. South African industries and the government could soon be pumping half a billion rand (Pounds 66,500,000) a year into science and technology projects aimed at rapidly expanding the country's...
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Excellence is an island
As Britain debates the detail of the Dearing report, India, 50 years after independence, faces much the same issues, but on a very different scale Nehru's vision of universities emphasised a liberal...
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Truth about Jinnah
KATHERINE Frank's review of my book Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, (THES, August 15) is unfair and inaccurate. For example, she quotes me as condemning Ayesha Jalal's...
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Truth about Jinnah
THE reader of Professor Ahmed's biography will assume that he is functioning as a biographer as well as an anthropologist in it, and that when he invokes other's views, without contesting or refuting...