Islands start-up
Lord Lindsay, Scottish Office minister for agriculture, environment and forestry, has launched the first degree course for the University of the Highlands and Islands project, a BSc in rural...
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Upping tempo
Clark Brundin, director of the school of management studies at Oxford University and head of Templeton College, Oxford, has earned the term media don after his appearance in the Bedfordshire Times...
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Fringe Wellcome gene
Audience participation is usually one of the less welcome features of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, when innocent theatregoers can find themselves part of the action. But there was no hesitancy...
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Students return to barracks
Old German soldiers who become students rather than simply fading away are to be offered accommodation in all-too-familiar surroundings. Ex-conscripts and former professional soldiers who are...
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One flew into the fellow's head
What is a sociology researcher to do when a pigeon starts a family under her desk? Sarah Nelson explains. Now here is a conundrum for the silly season. What do you do when a pigeon builds a nest...
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Capital ideas
Anthony Hopwood and Colin Mayer take issue with those who would deny Oxford University a school of management. Despite being one of the fastest growing areas of the university system, considerable...
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Scrap FE funding council . . . and strip HEFCE of quality assurance role, say Liberal Democrat advisers
The Liberal Democrats have called for the further and higher education funding councils to be stripped of their powers. They plan to go into the next general election arguing that in England and...
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Manic maths
Delegates at the Tenth World Congress on Psychiatry in Madrid this week learned of the schizophrenia Nobel laureate John Nash of MIT suffered for 15 years. While denying a direct relationship between...
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Tobacco roadblock
The Medical Research Council was criticised this week for accepting money from the tobacco giant British American Tobacco. BAT has given Pounds 147,000 to the MRC to research whether nicotine is...
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Former space institute picks star pupils
Perestroika and the end of the Cold w/ar brought little comfort to Russia's regional universities where a bias towards the military-industrial complex had always ensured comfortable sinecures for...
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Case for currency quiz
Two recent reviews (THES, July 26 and August 2) contribute illuminatingly to the vital debate on a single currency. However, they both describe negatively those who oppose a single currency as prone...
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Our time-less lives
The feel-good factor hasn't returned, so we are told, because job insecurity is still widespread. But Ray Pahl, continuing our series on work and the family, believes it is also because our fractured...
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Mice gene hailed as HIV breakthrough
A gene that protects mice from their equivalent of HIV infection has been discovered by British scientists. The discovery has raised the tantalising possibility of a similar gene being present in...
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Research's damaging split
The research assessment exercise has "disempowered" 60 per cent of researchers and led to a damaging split between research and teaching, according to a study to be presented at an international...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service, Thesis, is to provide the Internet presence for Sir Ron Dearing's National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education. From mid-September, users will be able to find out...