Middle age cash spread
I am all in favour of academic freedom and democracy and frequently tell my elders and betters they are wrong. But G. R. Evans (THES, September ) should not delude herself. The principal reason why...
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Security agents harass strikers
Nigerian security agents are harassing lecturers and leaders of their banned union in an attempt to break a strike that closed the country's 38 universities. Assisi Assobie, national president of the...
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Doctors have a good feel
Trainee doctors are to experience the ups and downs of dealing with patients earlier following complaints that their degrees are too theoretical. New medical students at Liverpool University will...
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Jesus College, Cambridge
(Photograph) - The new library at Jesus College, Cambridge offers a vision of the digital library as a haven of quiet study and peaceful order amid the chaos and frenetic pace of the Internet. The...
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Design for the computer age
It is obviously the silly season! Two sentences by Lord Beloff about media studies (Elite and proud of it, THES, August 9) and we are subjected to discussions about the state of the students' bowels...
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Right said Fred
Alumnus to be proud of No 63 has received more praise for his personal integrity and honesty over the past few days - albeit in distinctly Mark Antony style - than most people do in a lifetime. Fred...
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Westminster tops debt league
Students could incur vastly higher levels of debt depending on the university they attended, according to a new survey. Figures produced as part of the 1997 PUSH (formerly the Polytechnics and...
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Proof of the eating is in UEA's pudding
The University of East Anglia is proposing to become the United Kingdom's premier centre for food research, writes Kam Patel. The bid has been spurred by the Government's Prior Options review which...
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Colleges in two-tier clearing
Universities are developing a two-tier system of degree programmes in an effort to mop up applicants to over-subscribed courses during clearing. About 10,000 new or amended courses are on offer...
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Alcohol researcher sees red
A leading alcohol researcher is demanding an explanation for an academic journal's refusal to publish a book review which it commissioned from him. John Duffy, director of Edinburgh University's...
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Sea-borne
(Photograph) - Sea-borne: Plymouth University student Lucy Lake has reclaimed materials from the sea to make this storage unit as part of her 3D art and design degree course.
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Sexy discrimination
Freudian slip or typographical error? These questions may be occupying the mind of Clare Ruby who is, according to Middlesex University's newsletter North Circular, "Middlesexy Project Development...
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A swing to the bright
Geoff Andrews believes that Tony Blair's new Labour has jettisoned the anti-intellectual prejudices of old. The links between new Labour and intellectuals beyond the party are attracting much...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. My daughter has just completed a course at Thames Valley University and Anna Tobin's...
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