How old is that lobster in the tank?
After seafood lovers have taken a table in their favourite restaurant and selected a fine-looking lobster from the glass tanks teeming with live crustaceans, the question of the creature's age may...
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Job at last for top prof
The embarrassment is over for York University now that Canada's 1995 professor of the year has been awarded a full-time job. Although she was an award-winning teacher prior to this distinction from...
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Time called on Bar arguments
As the Bar Council proposes reforms in barristers' training, two legal eagles respond to Nigel Savage's criticisms of the Lord Chancellor's committee. Professor Savage is disappointed with the Lord...
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Thatcher brickbat
Lecturers at Brunel University have condemned the "secrecy" surrounding the decision to award Baroness Thatcher an honorary doctorate. The Association of University Teachers says it will be calling...
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Dose of reality in standards debate
In an Institute of Directors survey on education one respondent recently complained of a conspiracy between Conservatives, Labour and the education establishment: "It is as if there were a tacit...
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Peak practice
(Photograph) - Peak National Park and Sheffield University are collaborating on a dig at Gardoms Edge in the Peak District. Bill Bevan, an archaeologist with the national park, works on some carved...
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NVQ's vulnerable to fraud
Procedures for paying providers of National Vocational Qualifications and other training programmes are vulnerable to fraud, says the National Audit Office. A report published this week by NAO...
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Kids brush with Matisse
Is modern art too abstract and complex for children to understand? This seems to be the assumption of many primary school teachers, according to research which challenges the idea that realism in art...
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Academics take a back seat
One of the side effects of Binyamin Netanyahu's election victory in Israel is a marked drop in the role of academics in political life. The outgoing government included three law professors in the...
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Sloppy end to a coup
Alan Sokal's coup (THES, June 7) should be applauded. But in the interest of the "evidence and logic" he upholds, may I point out that it does not follow from his exposure of a widespread and lazy-...
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Search for Sixties' soul
As mailings from the Rutgers University Alumni Association have been reminding me, it is 25 years since my graduation. Given my own reaction, I am sure that the arrival of "reunion announcements"...
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Healthy managers
A Centre for Healthcare Management opens at Staffordshire University this month, headed by a former health authority chief executive, Jim Bartlett. It will try to involve clinicians in management;...
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Canada fertile field of study
Canadian studies, rather like the country it examines, is much bigger than you might think. The latest survey on the subject in Britain, to be published next week, shows that it encompasses enough...
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Britain out on the hoof
John Major's game of dare over the beef embargo could deny Britain a place in a free market in education. At the beginning of May, just before John Major's embargo on all European legislation, the...
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Whitehall to run teacher training
Teacher training will become the first area of higher education to have course content set by the Government, under plans unveiled this week. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...