Fission fun
At last the event for those who are tired of all the carping about nuclear power and nuclear weapons and think they are just great. Coming next month, an annual symposium of the splendidly named...
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Misery Down Under as budget slashed
The Australian government is to slash Aus$1.8 billion (Pounds 0.9 billion) from the higher education budget over the next three years and radically reshape the way students pay for their tuition in...
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City advert 'stretched the truth'
Advertising standards watchdogs have upheld for the first time a complaint about quality claims made by a university. City University's Centre for Internal Auditing was forced to change an...
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Big guns join league table race
The university guide published annually by the magazine US News and World Report, whose league tables routinely drive United States academics to distraction, is to be challenged by similar...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication The service is...
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Fun factor ignored in pupil sums
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. School-leavers grossly underestimate how much they will spend on enjoying...
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Gap year used to map career
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Last year, more than 32,000 of the 205,000 applicants with enough A- level and...
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Struck out
"Save British Science Society: Supporting Science and the Applications of Science" is the header that accompanies all SBS press releases. The society's bold mission (impossible?) seems however to...
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Crash course in basics
A university is running crash courses in basic skills to bring students up to scratch before they start their degree courses. Teesside University planned a summer school in skills such as essay...
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Aids classes boost awareness
Undergraduates should be taught about Aids and HIV to increase their awareness of the virus and reduce its chances of spreading, according to a Canadian study. The research, at Simon Fraser...
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Oxford reaches out
Corhyn Horsfall from Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool is missing two weeks' holiday in Turkey to attend an Oxford University science summer school. "It's been worth it so far - it's been such...
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Greece's slaughtered Jews
Mark Mazower commemorates a group of Holocaust victims so efficiently erased by the Nazis that little trace ofthem remains. In Europe, some ghosts are more invisible than others. Millions of visitors...
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From cradle to coffin . . .
Chris Johnston talks to students about the world of summer jobs. Summer is a time when university students can relax for a couple of months, but many trade the stress of assignments and exams for a...
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Test lifts bar on Mars proof
The Martian question that everyone wants answered - did the Antarctic meteorite that Nasa has claimed contains signs of ancient life really come from the red planet? - could be solved by a piece of...
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Biotech booster
Universities, firms and training organisations were this week invited to bid for a slice of a Pounds 5 million initiative aimed at supporting embryonic biotechnology firms. The Department of Trade...