Grannies, graduates and gut reactions
I was fascinated to read that research (THES, June 14) suggests that a major reason for the increase in asthma cases could be that we protect our children too much from exposure to germs, thus...
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South Bank strikers blame injunction
Lecturers fighting mass redundancies at London's South Bank University claim they have been forced into taking strike action because of a threatened injunction from university solicitors. Natfhe...
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Drop-out count leads to dispute
Universities and colleges have lost millions of pounds because student drop-outs have been double-counted by the Teacher Training Agency, it was claimed this week. Institutions say they were left...
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Mad tie disease
Though scientists are traditionally supposed to be media-shy, some are positively enjoying all the publicity over mad cow disease. Leeds maverick Richard Lacey - who starts with the advantages of a...
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Welsh face cash choice
Welsh universities and colleges have been presented with a choice of two systems to make research funding more selective. Resources for postgraduate research will focus on areas rated at 3 or above...
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Routledge bought
Venture capital firm Cinven has just bought Routledge, one of the world's leading academic publishers, from the Thomson Corporation of Canada.
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Household accounts circa 1300
Family values are to be explored within a late medieval context in a project bringing together scholars of English with historians and archaeologists. The interdisciplinary research team is based at...
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Malay teacher status boosted by new university
Malaysia is planning to build a university for teacher training within the next three years and is upgrading all teacher training courses to diploma level from next month. Education minister Datuk...
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Middlesex denies gagging clauses
We must protest most vigorously at your front page sensationalist headline (THES, June 7). It was not supported by the article beneath it, your own leader or the facts of the situation. It is the...
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Men without a mission
Equal job opportunity for men and women is bad for family life. Partners tend to geton better if the man is the main bread-winner during the child-rearing years, argues Geoff Dench. Most people would...
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MRC lobbies for mad cow study
The Medical Research Council has drawn up proposals for a Pounds 22 million study of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in an effort to boost Britain's scientific expertise in the area....
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Drama hits House over artistic future
A Tory MP tackled the Government this week over its failure to address a "growing crisis" in funding dance and drama courses and students. Peter Luff, Conservative member for Worcester, told the...
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Crowe's feat
So how much has changed in the US in the 30 years since the foundation of London University's Institute of United States Studies, celebrated this week with a party at the US ambassador's Regent's...
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Fixed-terms deter the best
University teaching quality may be suffering because of problems associated with increasing numbers of fixed-term contracts, says the Association of University Teachers. The union held the inaugural...
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Respect due to British innovators
Innovation should become an academic field with its own professorships and institutes, a leading industrialist said this week. While schemes to solve the United Kingdom's old problem of poor...