CNAA era lessons
TONY TYSOME reports the view of Geoffrey Alderman that a new standards agency "is bound to eventually become a kind of super Council for National Academic Awards" (THES, February 14). Having worked...
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Darwinian takeover
I ACCEPT Derek Freeman's claim (THES, February 7) that he believes in "a synthesis I of both the genetic and exogenetic" in the determination of human behaviour. Everyone, sociobiologists and...
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Partners in classroom
THE MEASURED professional tone adopted by the writers of Personal View (THES, February 7) was welcome, as was the overwhelming endorsement which their research provides for the partnership model of...
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Gender defenders of Africa
IN 1991 a historic meeting in Paris, convened by the Association of Donors to African Education, brought together all the ministers of education in Africa. Only five were women and they were...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Kyushu, Southern Japan. The earthquake hits at 7.30am. Five point eight on the Richter scale with the epicentre in a nearby town. My hotel room jerks and sways violently like an Inter-City...
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Pension climbdown has a sting in its tail
YOU CAN tell how serious a government is about staying in office by the pace of its pre-election activities. If they are frenetic, ill conceived, subject to little or no consultation and, generally,...
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A cry for freedom
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...
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Weak grounds for coffee fears
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle If coffee was our worst vice, we would be in fine shape, says a leading medical academic...
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Split over logging
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle SUSTAINABLE management of tropical forests may cause more environmental damage than...
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Does your lab need a helping hand?
(Photograph) - Does your lab need a helping hand? Deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine unveiled an 'incubator' for corporate ventures in biosciences at Manchester University this week. But...
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Tiller girls shortage
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle STRICT segregation of the sexes may have played a part in the decline of Athens, a...
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By hook or by Crooks
(Photograph) - By hook or by Crooks: 22-year-old Lara Crooks has become the University of Wolverhampton's first deaf student to achieve the National Pool Lifeguard qualification. She trained with the...
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Unions hail pensions climbdown
MINISTERS have postponed changes to early-retirement payments for lecturers in colleges and new universities in a climbdown heralded as a campaigning triumph by teaching unions. The proposed changes...
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Freestyle policy limbo for students
Thousands of university students all over Italy are in a bureaucratic limbo because law courts, legislators and university authorities have failed to adopt a common policy on limited admission to...
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Students return to science...
University science courses have escalated in popularity, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for 1997 entry. Record numbers of applications for...