Exploited exports
Planning a spot of winter sun? Seduced by brochures displaying a bronzed couple strolling hand in hand across a beach? Beware. You have fallen not only for sea and sun but for sexual stereotyping. A...
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New sky line: Lincoln university
(Photograph) - New sky line: Lincoln University welcomes its first students this week, writes Chris Johnston. The project is the first purpose-built city-centre campus in Britain in 25 years. Public...
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Accidental ecotourists
Julian Evans talks to Daniel Start, the leader of the Cambridge graduates held hostage in West Papua, about the dangers of scientific expeditions stumbling into complex political minefields. Wrapped...
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Disabilities aid call
More must be done to improve education for people with learning difficulties or disabilities, according to a report published this week by a Further Education Funding Council advisory committee. It...
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Iraqi students left fee debts behind
Iraqi students still owe British universities thousands of pounds in fees from when they returned home during the Gulf war five years ago. Bradford University, which had 34 Iraqi students in 1990, is...
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Useless subjects, few jobs
I wonder whether the attempt to raise popular awareness and understanding of engineering through the Year of Engineering Success (THES, September 13) will halt the sharp decline in the number of...
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Kinnock knockers blamed
The hostile press barrage directed at Neil Kinnock during his nine years as leader of the Labour party may have helped determine the final outcome of the 1992 general election, argued James Thomas, a...
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High minded
We don't know what he's like at electrotechnics, but if the faculty of that subject at St Cyril and Methodius University at Tetovo in Macedonia offers options in enterprise it should immediately...
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Albanians rejoin Serb fold
The Serbian government has signed a deal with the Albanians of Kosovo that promises to restore their access to the official university in the province. Albanophone education from kindergarten up to...
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Puddle thinking
Rain is as much a part of Britain as the royal family. However, it seems the hourly probability of rain in the United Kingdom is actually quite low - about one in 12 in fact. Robert Matthews, a...
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Scots back autonomy
The Association of University Teachers has clashed with the Educational Institute of Scotland over a Trades Union Congress call for a Scottish parliament to have control of the universities. David...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. "Fascinating", "compelling", "a tour de force", "slapdash", "jejune" and "sloppy" were joined today by "dazzling" as a description of my new biography of Hugh Gaitskell. The range of...
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Engineering fault in the system
Richard Barry argues for axing the 30 plus engineering faculties which last year accepted students with A-level points well below those of their humanities counterparts It is that time of year again...
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French press lacks baronial archetypes
Huw Richards reports from the Institute of Contemporary History conference on A Century of the Popular Press. Anglo-American journalism provides immense scope for connoisseurs of the Great Man theory...
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Teaching skills get all shook up
The Government has announced the "biggest-ever" shake-up of teacher training, involving the rapid introduction of a national curriculum for universities and colleges. From September next year teacher...