Class ain't what it used to be
Britain may not have eradicated its class system, but its sociologists are at least giving it a thorough overhaul. Lucy Hodges continues our series on work and the family. "The long-established...
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Loans bid
A mortgage company has emerged as the third organisation bidding to run a privatised loans scheme, prompting the NUS to seek guarantees on service standards. National Home Loans ended months of...
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Ulster search for exams link-up sample head 2 lines
Two researchers at Queen's University, Belfast are beginning a study which could pave the way for closer links between A levels and GNVQs. Alex McEwen, reader in the school of education, and Carol...
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Forensics unmask dead poet
Forensic techniques used by the police to establish the identity of unknown bodies have revealed what 16th-century Scottish humanist, classicist, historian and poet George Buchanan looked like. Tutor...
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Karbovantsy cuts hit the Ukraine
Ukraine has announced major cuts in higher education following a Presidential decision to reduce the state wage bill. The country's post-Soviet economic crisis has meant that government employees,...
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Physicist's credentials
I apologise for the lateness of my response to Helmut Rechenberg's review of my book Hitler's Uranium Club (THES, January 26). I wish to comment only on the last paragraph. "Bernstein criticises and...
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It helps to be a don if you're going to be a Deirdre
Deirdre McCloskey, formerly Donald, advises that if you are tempted to change your gender, secure a post in academia first. If you are going to change your gender, it would be a smart move to get...
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Death in the final degree interview
Police investigating the fatal shooting of three professors by a student at San Diego State University say the 36-year-old suspect's thesis had been failed once already. A repeat would probably have...
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Two-thirds of FE colleges face Pounds 82m debt
The number of further education colleges in debt is rising, according to figures published by the Further Education Funding Council for England. More than 290 of the 450 colleges in the sector are...
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Southampton deal
Chris Hutchinson, the director of corporate development at Southampton Institute of Higher Education, who was suspended on full pay last month following the troubled launch of an Athens-based campus...
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Push off
While last weekend's scorching weather probably inflicted a good deal of painful sunburn, it could hardly be blamed for the acute reddening of faces among those working for The PUSH Guide to Which...
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Rolling up for Fringe benefits
Student drama companies have been making the pilgrimage to Edinburgh for the three-week extravaganza that is the Edinburgh Fringe every August for 50 years. This year, more than 100 companies are...
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Figaro makes return to Nigeria
The Trenchard Hall, named after a pioneer British university administrator, is acquiring a renewed reputation for the return of classical music to the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Each...
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Brain drainer's case of deja vu
Britain should beware the Australian experience before going down the same road, says Mark Levick. Being in a British university in the 1990s is becoming somewhat similar to my Australian experience...
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In the shadow of Big Sister
David Walker reports on the growing pains of men's studies. What a state we heterosexual men are in. Women and gay men have, intellectually at least, got their acts together. There is a vast...