Gaelic praise
Irish president Mary Robinson praised the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, a shared study programme between universities of Strathclyde and Aberdeen and Trinity College, Dublin, at Strathclyde's...
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Tony award
No career worries for Tony Blair, should his political hopes not come to fruition. Having permitted 14 pictures of himself to appear in Labour's 40-page manifesto document, he undoubtedly has the...
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Red bricks and mortar-boards
(Photograph) - Red bricks and mortar-boards: new arts and humanities graduates received their degrees at Birmingham University this week.
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Great Scott
Strathclyde University is hoping for an action-packed graduation ceremony next week, announcing that Scottish Claymores American football player Scott Couper will pick up his PhD in pure and applied...
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Complaints cost hard cash
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Court out
Alumnus to be proud of No. 57 is currently featured in a clearing bank advertising campaign which displays him in legal dress and announces that he would have "ended up in court" without the...
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Victims of Troubles need help for trauma
The psychological costs of political violence in Northern Ireland are only now beginning to emerge, according to research by a University of Ulster psychologist. Marie Smyth warns that whatever the...
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The natives are restless
The customers - hateful as the term may be to many - are getting stroppy. What with citizens' charters, an increase in students' financial commitment as grants dwindle, and a growth in litigiousness...
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Shame about the media
The account given by Christopher Brumfit and Rosamond Mitchell from Southampton University of how their research on "grammar" was handled by the Economic and Social Research Council (THES, June 28)...
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Massacre denied a page in history
Tim Cornwell reports on a challenge to the Jewish Holocaust. When the Nazis came to test the gas that they would use in their death camps, they chose 250 Gypsy children as the guinea pigs. In fact,...
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Student debts rise
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Cancer breakthrough
Survival rates from large cancers of the breast could improve because of a new technique that may enable doctors to tailor chemotherapy to individual patients, a meeting heard this week, writes...
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Loophole helps draft objectors
A court victory by a young conscientious objector may offer hope to the thousands of Russian university students who face - and fear - military service after graduation. The ruling by a Moscow...
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Experience is the best teacher
Universities have come in for criticism because of their increasing use of postgraduate tutors to "mop up" the less illustrious teaching tasks. More and more undergraduates find themselves under the...
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Short fuse on Ampere
I was disappointed to read F. N. H. Robinson's review of James R. Hofmann's biography of Andre-Marie Ampere (THES, June 21). One wonders how much Dr Robinson knows of the history of science. How else...