Chemicals get under the skin
The skin absorbs virtually any chemical that touches it, new research shows. This overturns the traditional view that it keeps out most substances. Some chemicals, such as the aromatherapy oil...
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Asians take pride in a place
Students who were born in Asia are winning places in New South Wales universities at up to three times the rate of their Australian or European-born counterparts, possibly because their parents place...
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New York restricts open-door policy
Twenty-five years ago the City University of New York took allcomers from around the world who swarmed into America via the Big Apple and managed to graduate from high school. That open admissions...
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Thinktank on African slave isle
In 1987, a group of visionary South African intellectuals, business people and exiled African National Congress leaders incensed the government by getting together in Dakar, Senegal, and other West...
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Management-speak for Poland
Polish universities, overgoverned by generations of academics tied to a rigid career structure, should be opened up to professionals with management experience, according to the first Organisation of...
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Old pals diploma act
A decision by Lithuania's left-wing government to reinstate the diplomas issued by Communist Party colleges during the Soviet era could prove embarrassing to future academic contacts, according to...
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Flying the flag: Edith Cresson at the Paris launch of the Socrates programme
(Photograph) - Flying the flag: former French minister Edith Cresson (right), now European commissioner for education, at the Paris launch of the Socrates programme with (left to right) Gustavo...
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Italian scientists rail against cuts
Italy's scientific community, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, is outraged by cuts to the already meagre budget for scientific research, and by rumours of further cuts in 1996. The 1995...
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Hard sell for inventions
It is neither the scientists nor engineers in our universities that are "patently poor at capitalising on ideas" (THES, June 23) but the people who represent them. University researchers and teaching...
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God power
By some misfortune, Richard Swinburne is misrepresented in Gerard Kelly's very capable article about me (THES, June 30). A firm theological realist, Swinburne may well be described as one for whom...
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Bard barb
Ann Thompson (THES, June 23) calls my book The Real Shakespeare "pugilistic" and so forth. But I am dealing with people like Ann Thompson, whose 1984 Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. With my colleague Dave Hill give a talk to student teachers, teachers and lecturers at Soweto College of Education on politics and education in Britain. In the ensuing discussion, those...
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Gloom trimming for job adverts
There is a growing literature on the marketing of higher education in general, and individual universities and colleges in particular. It is another side of the "higher education as business" thesis...
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Mobile phone blinds the stars
Mobile phones are posing a threat to astronomers' research into the Big Bang and the death of stars. The next generation of phones is to use a low-orbit satellite network which has several frequency...