Snakes and ladders
Finding a job is a process fraught with tough decisions. Four graduates describe their experiences. Paul Wilkes, from Barrow upon Soar, gained a 2:1 in mathematics from Leicester University. He also...
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Oxford reveals business aim
Oxford University has announced plans for a world-class international business school funded by its largest single benefaction in 60 years, writes Alan Thomson. Vice chancellor Peter North said it...
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Soil scoop to seek life on Mars
Moon rock, the only planetary material to have been brought back to earth by humans, could soon be outdone by Mars rock, if a plan by Nasa comes to fruition. The United States space agency has...
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Wish-list or hit-list: wait for Dearing
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has just issued a consultative document on the funding method it should adopt for teaching from 1997/98 onwards. To its credit, the council's...
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Better dead end than nothing
Graduates are taking "boring" and "routine" jobs once shunned by self-respecting university students, according to a report by the Institute of Employment Studies. In a survey of 1,000 Sussex...
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Disco Gold: John Tomlinson
(Photograph) - Disco Gold: John Tomlinson, head of department at Glasgow School of Art, won second prize with this photograph in the college winners 'category in the 1996 Fujifilm student awards
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Stars in her eyes
(Photograph) - Stars in her eyes: Hazel Hall, single parent of two, has just been awarded a first-class honours on the part-time BA fine art course at the Canterbury College of the Kent Institute of...
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Hot under the collar
Health and family life are being damaged by workaholic cultures and the trend towards short-term contracts and freelance working. Cary Cooper looks at the feel-bad factors. Every decade this century...
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A thorough examination please
With regards to David Abel (THES, June 14), it is not agreed that traditional exams "are at least one of the more objective forms of assessment". There is considerable evidence that traditional exams...
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Unenlightened
We have all heard of lectures that leave you in the dark, but never quite as completely as at Trinity College, Dublin. Not that the lecturers were at fault - despite its Anglicised image, Trinity...
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A special class of character building
Schools and universities in the United States are trying to teach something that as yet has no place on Britain's curricula. It is called character education, and what they mean is the cultivation of...
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Class of 96 fails to face facts
Millions of students graduated college in the United States this spring with crisp diplomas, happy memories, bright prospects and apparently very little command of general knowledge. A survey of 500...
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Go-ahead for genetics watchdog
A Human Genetics Advisory Commission is to be set up by the Government to provide it with advice on the impact of genetics research on areas such as insurance, patents, health and employment. The...
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Murphy rapped
Ten MPs have signed an early day motion condemning the suspension of National Union of Students vice president education Clive Lewis by president Jim Murphy. Ken Livingstone sponsored last week's...
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Life begins at 91 for oldest PhD
The oldest PhD on record received his degree at a ceremony this week at Concordia University, Montreal. Ninety-one year-old Dagobert Broh finished his doctoral history thesis this year after seven...