Running on empty
Folk at Brunel and Oxford may fuss about honouring Lady Thatcher, but in Israel they are made of sterner stuff. Trumpetting research by Meir Lahav and Leslie Leiserowitz, the Weizmann Institute in...
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Hot under the collar
Health and family life are being damaged by workaholic cultures and the trend towards short-term contracts and freelance working. Cary Cooper looks at the feel-bad factors. Every decade this century...
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A thorough examination please
With regards to David Abel (THES, June 14), it is not agreed that traditional exams "are at least one of the more objective forms of assessment". There is considerable evidence that traditional exams...
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Unenlightened
We have all heard of lectures that leave you in the dark, but never quite as completely as at Trinity College, Dublin. Not that the lecturers were at fault - despite its Anglicised image, Trinity...
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A special class of character building
Schools and universities in the United States are trying to teach something that as yet has no place on Britain's curricula. It is called character education, and what they mean is the cultivation of...
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Class of 96 fails to face facts
Millions of students graduated college in the United States this spring with crisp diplomas, happy memories, bright prospects and apparently very little command of general knowledge. A survey of 500...
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Go-ahead for genetics watchdog
A Human Genetics Advisory Commission is to be set up by the Government to provide it with advice on the impact of genetics research on areas such as insurance, patents, health and employment. The...
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Murphy rapped
Ten MPs have signed an early day motion condemning the suspension of National Union of Students vice president education Clive Lewis by president Jim Murphy. Ken Livingstone sponsored last week's...
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Life begins at 91 for oldest PhD
The oldest PhD on record received his degree at a ceremony this week at Concordia University, Montreal. Ninety-one year-old Dagobert Broh finished his doctoral history thesis this year after seven...
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Malays get tough on agents
Malaysia has set out its terms for overseas universities seeking to operate through local colleges. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak told foreign universities not to treat local...
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Job in space for metal detectives
Why bother asking astronomers to detect life in space? According to Alexey V Arkhipov of the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Kharkhov, Ukraine, people with metal detectors might be a better bet....
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Charter trip
A charter campaign was launched yesterday to push Nene College's bid to become a university. The campaign is supported by local government, Northamptonshire firms and public bodies.
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Shot in the arm
Academics who wish to start biotechnology companies could get help from the Medical Research Council, which is setting up a seed investment fund. It hopes to raise Pounds 25 million to help establish...
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MP raises alarm over Swansea
Alan Williams, the MP for Swansea West, has alerted the National Audit Office to the overseas franchise operations of Swansea Institute of Higher Education. His action this week coincides with the...
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Scottish Dearing
The Scottish committee of the Dearing inquiry will comprise Sir Ron Garrick, chief executive of the Weir Group, chairman; John Arbuthnott, principal of Strathclyde University; Sir James Armour,...