Targets moving the wrong way
If at first you don't succeed - you don't succeed." This is the reality of the British system of education and training for many millions of people. The revised National Education and Training...
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The speech writer
Lucy Hodges meets Deborah Tannen, the sociolinguist whose studies of how people talk to one another have made her an American household name. Sellotaped to the door of Deborah Tannen's office at...
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The classic dilemma
The discussions on the state of classics by Peter Jones and Nick Tate (THES, May 19) are the latest addition to the decades-long concern as to whether the subject has a future. But what is the "...
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Past imperfect, future tense
Historians in post-communist Eastern Europe are busy reclaiming the past. Huw Richards reports. A Russian joke of pre-glasnost vintage tells of Napoleon, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun...
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Gene team detects cancer clues
Scientists believe that they have traced a hereditary link to breast cancer and can predict which women can tolerate a stronger blast of radiation. Aisling Irwin reports. The photograph was taken in...
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A Victorian plot to drive down wages
Kathryn Ecclestone's letter (THES, May 26) is a welcome, commonsense response to the wilder advocates of "NVQs for everything" but she holds back from the deserved total condemnation of the idea....
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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Man: the story so far
Are humans different from animals in degree or in kind? Tim Ingold argues that the new Darwinism, far from offering a solution, is riddled with contradictions. Do human beings differ from other...
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Majoring mayor: Jacqueline Abbott
(Photograph) - Majoring mayor: Jacqueline Abbott, a BA student at Thames Valley University, is taking her finals this summer and also became Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham last week.
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ROPA Pounds 50m
Science minister David Hunt has announced that nearly Pounds 50 million has been allocated for 473 new Realising Our Potential Awards, a scheme which rewards researchers who are doing cooperative...
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Calling Germany
Birmingham University has established 16 scholarships for German students in a bid to attract highly qualified candidates across a wide range of disciplines, from African history to metallurgy. They...
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Lecturer charged
A 32-year-old Oxford lecturer has been charged with the theft of a first edition book by Sir Isaac Newton from the Christ Church College library. The book, which dates back to 1687, is believed to be...
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Ex-lecturer to head troubled college
Derby College Wilmorton has appointed a former lecturer as principal. David Croll left the college in 1983, before it was re-organised as a tertiary college and before the high-profile inquiry which...
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Cash injection
Aberdeen University has won Pounds 300,000 from the international pharmaceutical group Glaxo Wellcome for a diabetes laboratory within its new institute of medical sciences, which will bring together...
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Pounds 6m summer bonus for six
Half a dozen higher education institutions are likely to share the Pounds 6 million on offer for pilot programmes testing the use of the summer semester. Only around ten bids to explore the...