Chemists report a fall in graduate recruits
Graduate recruitment by the chemical industry is heading for a fall this year, according to a survey by the Chemical Industries Association. Firms surveyed said they were expecting to recruit a total...
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Jung finds evolutionary allies
IN HIS ATTACK on the integrity of Jungian analysts, (THES, November 22) Richard Noll makes an unflattering comparison between the attitude we Jungians adopt to our patients and that of Ben Johnson's...
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CVCP should back, not attack, union action
YOUR FRONT page lead article (THES, November 22) tells us that "Universities expect to replace lecturers with information technology". However it curiously fails to mention the intended impact of IT...
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Wales needs top institute
IT IS HARDLY surprising that the Welsh principals are opposed to concentrating research in separate research institutions or elite universities in Wales, and think it would be academically and...
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Mining for salt can be a fractious task
ONCE UPON a time numbers mattered more for what they symbolised than for what they counted. Even in our hard-headed age, their symbolic power is latent. Take a couple of fractions, like 1/260th and 1...
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US loses pulling power
EXPRESSIONS of alarm over the static numbers of foreigners choosing to study in the United States have fallen on deaf government ears. There appears to be little appetite for challenging the...
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Malaysia's future blueprint
A blueprint will be formulated soon on increasing student intake to Malaysia's institutions of higher learning, and determining which programmes are to receive priority for supporting national...
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Checkpoint Venice for tourists
A TOURIST checkpoint for entry to Venice is among suggestions from the city's Ca' Foscari University for use during the 2000 Jubilee and Holy Year celebrations. Left-wing mayor Massimo Cacciari, who...
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Football party kicks into gear
Footballing philosophy is breathing new life into the ailing world of student politics in Germany, where Marx and Lenin once topped the league. The St Pauli Party is standing in student elections at...
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Partners in a burgeoning club
NEARLY 200,000 students, over half of them undergraduates, benefit from partnership arrangements between universities and other institutions. Many of these students are in further education, but a...
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Waiting for Sir Ron and... the second coming of Christ
IN DEEPEST Berkshire, a small college of Seventh Day Adventists is preparing for the second coming of Christ. Newbold College, set in 80 acres near the village of Binfield and catering for some 350...
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A dedicated arbiter of credit
Harold Silver of the Open University explains how its validation service works. Little understood and little reported, an alternative and largely private higher education sector is mushrooming. One...
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Gucci-clad and grandiose
THE CURRENT batch of prospective business leaders networking the grandiose Georgian campus of the European Business School in the heart of London's Regent's Park have an air of collective confidence...
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Rainbow's quest for master brew
FEW scientists have achieved so much in the irrepressible quest for the ultimate pint of beer than the late, great brewer Cyril Rainbow. Today, Rainbow's quest - along with his very name - lives on...
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Highland battle rages
An Inverness economic consultant has come under fire for dismissing the University of the Highlands and Islands project as "third rate". Tony Mackay wrote in the latest Mackay Consultants' monthly...