Micawber factor
Your report of the findings of the Public Accounts Committee on the operations of the Student Loans Company (THES, March 22) rightly records the amount of the total outstanding loan portfolio which...
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Race case switches admission quota rule
Conservatives hope an Appeals Court ruling against using race as a basis of admissions to the University of Texas has sounded the death knell for affirmative action programmes across the United...
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Englishman heads Monash
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
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Gene genie summed up
In your leader (THES, March 15) relating to the extent to which our behaviour may be genetically controlled, you report that "there is no slick term for summing up these (genetic or environmental)...
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Nigerian v-cs told to cross off Malta meeting
The Nigerian government has barred the country's vice chancellors from this week's Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Malta in anticipation of criticism of the execution of Ogoni...
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Why screening is wrong
"Should we screen embryos to eliminate those with genes causing a predisposition to curable cancers, or cancers where the victims live into their thirties or longer? Notwithstanding parents' anguish...
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Going to work on an egg
Infertile couples can go to Robert Winston to have their IVF eggs screened for cancer. Lucy Hodges asks him how, with public debate on the ethics of this in an embryonic state, he can justify such a...
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''Madam, how dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language...''
Jean Aitchison documents the furious reaction to her Reith lectures on language. Madam, How dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language as you did in your recent Reith lecture . . ."...
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Campus search for fundamentalists
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat this week took steps to clamp down on the activities of Muslim fundamentalists in the universities and colleges of Gaza and the West Bank. As Palestinian police...
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Nail vanish
(Photograph) - Nail vanish: Rebecca Crawford of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Glasgow proves a point about the physics of pressure at the start of SET96, national science...
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Forthright
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has astounded and infuriated vice chancellors and academics by insisting there is no causal relationship between funding and quality. He pulled no punches...
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Guildhall set to axe 84 jobs
London Guildhall University is set to axe 84 jobs and freeze pay for a year in an attempt to secure its survival, writes Huw Richards. The cuts, including 23 academic posts - eight at head of...
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Shephard calls for vocational drive
The Government has told the new independent careers services to overturn the reputation of vocational qualifications as second-class, and give them parity of esteem with academic qualifications....
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Dropout growth rooted in neglect
Universities and colleges need to provide more support for students to combat growing dropout levels, according to a report from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Staying or...