Scientists take cancer control
The United Kingdom's two main cancer research charities have both elected scientists to their helms for the first time. The changes come as cancer research is undergoing a sea change. The new...
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For all creatures great and small
Roger Scruton is more honest than most in defending his pastimes. If the level of enjoyment experienced by horses and hounds is to be used to justify fox hunting perhaps, as the 20th century draws to...
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Pounds 10m cuts for Israeli science
Israel's chief scientist Shooky Gleitman is this week trying to come to terms with a Pounds 10 million reduction in the level of government support provided for his office by 1997. The cuts are part...
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A fair old state to be in
There is little doubt that at the end of the 20th century, the relationship between governments and institutions of higher education is undergoing fundamental change. States and universities are...
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For all creatures great and small
I agree with Roger Scruton on some things - the absurdity of much modern art, for example - but when he deals with the subject of animal rights he is guilty of an absurdity of his own (THES, June 28...
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German historians win battle of quills
Leading historians involved in a prestigious multi-volume history of Germany have won their battle to remove the controversial ninth volume on the Nazi period from the series just six months after it...
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Highlands seeks chief
The University of the Highlands and Islands project has this week advertised for a chief executive to steer the project to fruition. Applications for the Pounds 55,000 post, advertised in today's...
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Ace tennis players served with own league
The creation of a premier tennis league in British student sport has initiated changes which could eventually revolutionise its highest levels. The decision of the British Universities Sports...
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Fen defended
(Photograph) - More than Pounds 70,000 in private donations should save the archaeological dig Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire, from closure. The site was endangered after the withdrawal of funding by...
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Danger: market forces at work
Recently I was privileged to attend a degree-awarding ceremony, organised by the University of Central England for international students graduating in 1996. The occasion was special, partly because...
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Cash back pledge is too late
The Canadian province of Alberta's government is reinstating some of the 21 per cent of cuts to higher education it has made in its past three years in office. The Progressive Conservative Party has...
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Blossoms nipped in the bud
Stopping new universities doing legitimate university work is wrong Few universities in the United Kingdom are older than 200 years and only two of these are English. When England was industrialising...
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How Latin can be music to the ears
Long-suffering students at the University of Munster in Germany once named a campaign against compulsory Latin exams for many degree subjects "Latinum in Latrinam!" Lecturer, Karl-Heinz von...
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Dreadwood
This week's award for spreading alarm and despondency goes to the public relations office of the University of Wales, Cardiff which has issued a press release under the horrifying headline "Redwood...
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Out of this world
In the second of our series on favourite films, Ian Christie describes how he overcame critical prejudice against Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death I've come to realise that my...