Fun factor ignored in pupil sums
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. School-leavers grossly underestimate how much they will spend on enjoying...
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Gap year used to map career
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Last year, more than 32,000 of the 205,000 applicants with enough A- level and...
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Struck out
"Save British Science Society: Supporting Science and the Applications of Science" is the header that accompanies all SBS press releases. The society's bold mission (impossible?) seems however to...
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Crash course in basics
A university is running crash courses in basic skills to bring students up to scratch before they start their degree courses. Teesside University planned a summer school in skills such as essay...
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Aids classes boost awareness
Undergraduates should be taught about Aids and HIV to increase their awareness of the virus and reduce its chances of spreading, according to a Canadian study. The research, at Simon Fraser...
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Oxford reaches out
Corhyn Horsfall from Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool is missing two weeks' holiday in Turkey to attend an Oxford University science summer school. "It's been worth it so far - it's been such...
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Greece's slaughtered Jews
Mark Mazower commemorates a group of Holocaust victims so efficiently erased by the Nazis that little trace ofthem remains. In Europe, some ghosts are more invisible than others. Millions of visitors...
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From cradle to coffin . . .
Chris Johnston talks to students about the world of summer jobs. Summer is a time when university students can relax for a couple of months, but many trade the stress of assignments and exams for a...
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Test lifts bar on Mars proof
The Martian question that everyone wants answered - did the Antarctic meteorite that Nasa has claimed contains signs of ancient life really come from the red planet? - could be solved by a piece of...
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Coup for 'coffee jar' monitor
British scientists hope to use data from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland last week to predict volcanic hyperactivity months before an eruption. For the team from the University of Durham, the...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Go to Wakefield. I am on my way to the First International Conference on GeoComputing at Leeds University, but I am staying with a friend in Wakefield. We are supposed to meet at Kirkgate...
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Cambodian tragedy laid on a misunderstood Marx
In his book review of Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, Richard Gough wonders "how many lives worldwide might have been saved had Karl Marx kept his political and economic...
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Fair's fair please
(Photograph) - Fair's fair please: Unison members take their minimum wage campaign to the Department for Education and Employment. The union, with 50,000 members, the biggest in higher education, has...
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AUT fears bite in job watchdog
Lecturers' leaders have cast serious doubt on two projects designed to improve staff development and job evaluation in universities and colleges. The Association of University Teachers and the...
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Predators at the negotiating table
I was as heartened by the article in support of Roger Scruton by another distinguished philosopher, David Wiggins (THES, October 4), as I was dismayed by the condemnation from the animal rights lobby...