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...
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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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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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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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Maths data 15 years out of date
David Reynolds and Shaun Farrell, authors of the recent OFSTED report Worlds Apart? (THES, August 9), are quoted as saying that "There is nothing to support those who would criticise maths and...
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NUS calls for reform of entrance procedures
The National Union of Students has called for reform of the university applications and admissions system amid a mad scramble for places after this year's A-level results. The NUS believes that the...
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Oxbridge links up with Met office and Oxheading
Computer-generated weather forecasts could become more accurate thanks to an initiative just launched by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in collaboration with the Meteorological Office....
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Astronomers lose vital eye in the sky
A prolific astronomical satellite, which was launched on a three-year mission in 1978 but is still active, is to be shut down in six weeks' time because of funding problems. The International...
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Mature policy pays dividends
Richard Disney argues that the UK, unlike its international competitors, is not facing a crisis from an ageing population thanks to radical cutbacks in social security provision and the increasing...
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Green killer
(Photograph) - Green killer: Philip Howse, joint head of the centre for bio-electrostatics at Southampton University, shows off his environmentally-friendly cockroach trap, which uses an...
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Grief is carved in stone
Sandra Gilbert discovered the anguish behind the bland term 'medical malpractice' when her husband died after a routine operation. But grief, she found, could be both muse and stone companion....
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Crushed in the machine
G. R. Evans speaks up for the academic freedoms of the individual. I work in an institution where any of the academic staff can stand up and make a speech in the university's "parliament", which is...
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Churches not cross at the crossing
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...