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When the Robbins committee was appointed just one person in 17went into full-time higher education. Now it is nearly one in three. The Dearing committee has had an impressive list of issues referred...
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Plato's outed
Glasgow University students clearly have little time for the Platonic ideal. A poster put up by the Campaign for the Highest Education, promoting Plato's view that "The life without examination is a...
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Trio takes a peep through the letterbox
If being in the right place at the right time counts for anything, the trio of Miguel Martinez, Mike Noon and Sarah Jenkins should enjoy spectacularly successful careers. The trio - all at Cardiff...
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Morse code
The 1996 award for subliminally reinforcing confidence in the examination system goes to the central schedulers at ITV. On the night before this year's A-level results were released, with hopeful...
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Tongues tied
Linguistic rights are closely linked to civil rights. A newly signed declaration should go some way towards their preservation. Ned Thomas reports. Where else could you meet an Arawak-speaker from...
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Fear under the volcano
I am writing to comment on the short item in Antithesis (THES, July 12) concerning the role of the British volcanologists working in the Caribbean. The article was ill-informed, flippant and seemed...
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Lab becomes new SIM city
Laboratories can now put themselves under the microscope using a software toolkit developed at Glasgow University. Barry Clark and Euan Crawford, of the department of pathological chemistry, have...
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Don's Diary
Friday Marge and I are picked up from Helsinki University, where I gave a presentation yesterday to catch the flight to Stockholm. On arrival we meet Nobel Foundation officials and Ulrike, the...
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Dialectical or what?
A starred five for political incorrectness to Ottilia Saxl of the Glasgow-based technology transfer centre. A delegate at the Royal Society Of Edinburgh's seminar on commercialising academic research...
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Jung's seminal influence
DID Richard Noll have to be so heavy handed in his attack on my defence of Jung's theory of archetypes (THES, December 13)? Yes. Because if he is to succeed in his ambition to destroy Jung's...
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Pixel partners
Department of Trade and Industry funds will help to create a "virtual centre of excellence" in digital broadcasting and multimedia technology. The project involves the National Film and Television...
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Suspended Glasgow fine arts head resigns
Pavel Buchler, head of the fine art department at Glasgow School of Art's, left the college this week following a series of disciplinary hearings. A joint statement signed by Mr Buchler and the...
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Daisy the drunk
Must-read headline of the month for October goes to the Warwick University NewsLetter and its front-page story "Warwick Scientists Devise Breathalyser For Cows". The bad news for those scenting the...
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Maverick Scot backs three years
A Scottish principal has called into question the four-year honours degree as the norm in higher education north of the border. Donald Leach, who retired this week after 11 years as principal of...
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Doleful effort
Alumnus to be proud of No 62 is American politician Alfonse d'Amato, senator (Republican) from the state of New York. As chairman of the devastatingly successful Dole for President campaign, Senator...